2014届中考复习英语专项突破任务型阅读及答案

八、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）

Street art is spreading quickly all over the world. You can find it on building, sidewalks and street signs from Tokyo to Paris.

It is said that the movement(运动) began in New York in the 1960s. Young adults would use paint in special cans to put their words and other pictures on walls and train cars around the city. One well-known street artist(艺术家) is Swoon. She cuts out paper pictures of people and puts them on walls. Swoon didn’t start her career(生涯) as a street artist. She studied art but, as time went on, got bored with the works she saw in museums and galleries(美术馆). The people enjoyed Swoon’s strong and interesting style.

Street artists do their work for a reason. Some of them choose street art because it is closer to the people. Some artists try to express their political opinions in their works. Advertising companies also use street art in their advertisements. The New York department store Saks Fifth Avenue recently used a street artist’s design for their shop windows and shopping bags.

In today’s world, artists can show their pictures to the people all over the world on the Internet. Many people, however, say that seeing a picture on the Internet is never as good as seeing it live. Street art lives with the energy and life of a big city. There it will continue to change and grow.

64. Did street art start from Paris?

65. Where did the street artists paint at the beginning?

66. What did people think of Swoon’s street art?

67. How did the department store use street art?

68. What does the writer mainly talk about in the last paragraph?

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八、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）

Many of us don’t pay much attention to the importance of eye care. It is said that if you take care of your body, then you can surely be healthy. That is why our eyes should be given a lot of care. Natural eye care should be put in a number one