阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题,交答案与在答题卡相应的位置上(

阅读下面短文并用英语回答问题,交答案与在答题卡相应的位置上(请注意52535556四个小题后面的词数要求)。

[1] Jean Paul Getty was born in 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24. His father was wealthy, but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.”

[2]But money _________. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty’s children had very happy lives.

[3]Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth, Getty was miser. Every evening, he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephone in the guest’s bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.

[4] In 1973, kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty’s son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty’s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally, Getty agreed to lend the money, but at 4 percent interest.

[5] Getty started a museum at his home Malibu, California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976, the value of the collection in the museum was $1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death, the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life, but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.

52. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (no more than 8 words)
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53. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)
_________________________________________________________________________________________

54. Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph3.
_________________________________________________________________________________________

55. What did the kidnappers do to Getty’s family (no more than 10 words)
_________________________________________________________________________________________

56. What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)
_________________________________________________________________________________________

答案

52Getty made a large fortune himself.

53.didn’t make his family happy / didn’t bring a happy family

54.Although Getty had a lot of money, he was a mean person.

55.They took Getty’s grandson and demanded a lot of money

56.He made a great contribution to the local art.

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