阅读理解题型分类练（十） 词义猜测题———单词猜测类 A （2024·贵阳质量监测）It all started with a simple question： “Can I paint your portrait？” In the summer of 2015， Brian Peterson and his wife， Vanessa， just moved to Santa Ana， California.Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment， a messy homeless man was often shouting on the street corner， sometimes keeping them awake at night.Peterson， 28， would pass the guy on his way to his job as a car designer at Kia Corporation， but they never spoke. One day， Peterson was relaxing in his living room， reading the book Love Does， about the power of love in action， when his quiet was disturbed by the homeless man.Inspired by the book’s sympathetic message， Peterson made an unexpected decision： He was going to go outside and introduce himself. In that first conversation， Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris.He’d moved to southern California from Kentucky to pursue a career in music， but he soon fell on hard times and ended up living on the street for more than a decade. ———It was the weirdest thing to me，” Peterson recalled later on the podcast （播客） Top Artist.“I saw beauty on the face of a man who hadn’t shaved in probably a year， had overgrown fingernails， and probably hadn’t had a shower in close to a year.But his story， the life inside of him， inspired me.” And even though Peterson， a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art， hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in about eight years， he asked if he could paint Faris’s portrait.Faris said yes. Peterson’s connection with Faris led to the creation of Faces of Santa Ana， a nonprofit organization that befriends unhoused community members and paints portraits of them.Using a black-and-white photo taken with his phone， Peterson selects colors based on the subject’s personality and story， resulting in powerful portraits.He sells the large paintings， signed by both the subject and the artist， for a few thousand dollars.Half of the profits go into a “love account” for the models， helping them start again.Faris used his portrait funds to fulfill his musical dreams by recording an album. 1.What is the purpose of the first paragraph？（ ） A.To explain the portrait. B.To express a request. C.To ask a question. D.To introduce the topic. 2.How did Peterson feel when just arriving at his new home？（ ） A.Worried. B.Bothered. C.Delighted. D.Relaxed. 3.What does the underlined word “weirdest” in Paragraph 5 probably mean？（ ） A.Strangest. B.Hardest. C.Most frequent. D.Most beautiful. 4.What caused the foundation of Faces of Santa Ana？（ ） A.Peterson’s relation to Faris. B.Profits from selling paintings. C.Colors based on the personality. D.Peterson’s powerful portraits. B （2024·太原模拟）Pick up any packaged processed food， and there’s a decent chance that one of its listed ingredients will be the “natural flavor”.The ingredient sou ... ...
