UNIT 4 课时跟踪检测（三）阅读写作融会练（word练习）-【新课程学案】新教材2023-2024学年高中英语选择性必修2 （人教版）

UNIT 4 课时跟踪检测（三）阅读写作融会练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 My first trip to Italy was with a friend when I was 19. When I got to Venice, I just couldn't believe how beautiful it was. Seeing it was an experience in itself. We did all the touristy things, including visits to the galleries. Later, I made another trip to Italy. Walking around the streets of Rome, I really enjoyed getting to know the city. Rome has such amazing galleries. The Vatican Museum's art gallery in particular is very special. You can see Caravaggio and all the greats there. The National Gallery of Modern Art has some wonderful art. I really had fallen in love with Italy and its art in a big way. Sadly I had no artistic talent, but I just loved to be around it. I visited quite a few art galleries. By the time I started writing my first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, I was in my thirties. I always say “write about what you know”， so art, as well as business and politics, has been appearing in one form or another in my books across the years. One of the main characters in that first novel was an art gallery owner. By the time I had written four books, I bonded with two art gallery goers over a love of art and Italy and eventually started going for almost an annual trip to different cities or towns in Italy. Over the past 40 years, I have visited about 60 cities and towns across Italy, some very small but in possession of remarkable masterpieces. For the first book in the William Warwick series, I placed the detective(侦探) in the art and antiquities squad (文物组), where he was investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting, so art is still very much a theme in my work. I'm fortunate to be able to indulge (尽情投入) my passion for Italy and its art, inspired by those early visits so many years ago. 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者去意大利的旅行使作者爱上意大利和其艺术，并给作者的写作带来灵感，从而改变了作者的一生。 1．How would the author describe his first two trips to Italy? A．They made him attracted to Italy. B．They improved his skill in painting. C．They enh