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Moses--Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961). She was also the most successful within her lifetime
and her work was reproduced on greeting cards and in prints. As with many folk artists, her career as a
painter started late in life, at the age of 67, but she continued painting until her death at the age of 10l, so
her active painting life still lasted over 34 years.
Her subjects are based on the New England countryside. Many of her early paintings are copies of, or
use sections from, prints by Currier and Ives that she then recreated in her own way. In her paintings the
figures became more stylized and the landscapes less naturalistic. Her painting was preceded (优先) by the
production of landscapes in needlework. The images, however, continued the same, and she remade some
of her needlework landscapes in paint at a later date.
From these early sources she began to compose original paintings such as Housick Falls, New York in
Winter (1944) that relied on her surroundings and her memories of country life and activities; these paintings
show her increasing technical ability. By the 1940"s her work had become a marketable commodity and
collectors created a demand for her paintings.
Like many painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Grandma Moses made use of photographs
for information, for figures, for landscapes, and for buildings, but her work, especially that of her later years,
was not a simple copying of these but compositions using them as source material. Her output was amazing,
and consequently her work is of varying quality. Her paintings place her among the top folk painters of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
B. The major artistic influences on Grandma Moses.
C. The folk art of Grandma Moses.
D. The life of Grandma Moses.
B. in her sixties
C. after much study
D. by producing greeting cards
B. They collected many of Grandma Moses" paintings.
C. They made calendars from Grandma Moses" landscapes.
D. Grandma Moses based some paintings on their work.
B. the public"s interest in painting
C. her need to make money
D. a physical condition that affected her
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algebra (代数) and differential and integral calculus (微积分学).
Mary was one of the world"s first famous female mathematicians. She became interested in mathematics
and decided to study it at the time when it was considered unacceptable for a woman to do so. She bought
books on algebra and geometry and read them at night. In spite of disapproval from people around her, she
firmly went on with her struggle to learn. She won a prize for her solution to an algebra problem. She went
on to write several books on mathematics. Later in her life, she thought deeply about the years in which she
had persevered (坚持) almost without hope and said, "It taught me never to lose heart."
Mary"s way of learning remains useful today. If she worked for a while on a problem without coming up
with an idea, she stopped working and turned her attention to the piano, her needlework, or a walk outdoors.
She then returned to the problem with a fresh mind and a solution turned up. If she could not understand a
passage while reading, she would forget about it and read on; several pages later, the meaning of the puzzling
passage would become clear to her.
B. Because she was one of the world"s first famous female mathematicians.
C. Because it was not considered acceptable for a woman to study math.
D. Because she was bored and had nothing to do.
B. Agreement.
C. Support.
D. Discovery.
B. Mary was, without doubt, a famous female mathematician.
C. Mary had some useful ways to deal with difficulties in her work.
D. Mary"s ways to overcome difficulties were not effective.
B. just forget about the problem
C. turn to your math teacher for help
D. listen to light music for a while and then continue working on it
seemed 1 . The people who laughed as they walked past were taking their 2 for granted, just as he 3
himself. Now, however, he felt 4 -and he couldn"t even show his disappointment in his 5 .
Seeking more personally satisfying 6 , he had just left a successful job as a commercial artist when it
seemed that fate (命运) played a cruel 7 on him. It was at this time that he developed cancer and was 8
to work. But that moment in the hotel was a turning point for Jimmy. He began to 9 the fact that there is
no such a thing as fate, only 10 . Since then, he has published several imaginative, illustrated (带插图的)
books.
According to Jimmy, you are 11 you choose to be. You can give up or you can work to be a happier
person. Jimmy realized that, while the world 12 seems unfair, your choice can change your life.
This idea can be 13 in Jimmy"s books, where his characters show the powerlessness they feel 14 making
their choices. The message that goes with Jimmy"s drawings, however, is 15 .
Though the world may make us feel small, we must be 16 . Everything will be all right for us-as it is for the
"small people" in Jimmy"s books-if we make choices that are 17 for us.
In spite of his new 18 and wealth, Jimmy prefers working 19 at home with his wife and daughter. He
spends his mornings drawing. To Jimmy, living a life as he chooses means much more than money and fame
could 20 .
| ( )1.A. unhappy ( )2.A. health ( )3.A. ought to ( )4.A. ashamed ( )5.A. crying ( )6.A. home ( )7.A. game ( )8.A. unable ( )9.A. understand ( )10.A. failures ( )11.A. that ( )12.A. always ( )13.A. found ( )14.A. after ( )15.A. powerful ( )16.A. great ( )17.A. scientific ( )18.A. product ( )19.A. rapidly ( )20.A. offer | B. unusual B. wealth B. had to B. disappointed B. painting B. condition B. trick B. impossible B. face B. efforts B. what B. seldom B. drawn B. about B. hopeful B. strong B. basic B. fame B. separately B. gain | C. unfair C. happiness C. needed to C. helpless C. imagination C. situation C. role C. unfit C. refuse C. choices C. which C. sometimes C. written C. with C. useful C. brave C. right C. name C. slowly C. gather | D. uneasy D. illnesses D. used to D. endless D. consideration D. work D. part D. difficult D. recognize D. interests D. whoever D. usually D. accepted D. before D. successful D. equal D. simple D. job D. quietly D. earn | |||||||||||||
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| Jeanne Calment, a French woman, became a record breaker on 17 October of 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days. Jeanne Calment lives in a small old people"s home in the south of France; her husband, her only child and her grandson have all died. She is nearly blind and deaf and is always in a wheelchair, but her doctor describe s her as being more like a 90-year-old in good health than someone of 120. She still has a lively sense of humor. When asked on her 120th birthday what she expected of the future, she replied: A very short one. She also remarked that she thought the good Lord had forgotten all about her. So what is the key to a long life? According to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three important factors. Jeanne Calment has followed two of the tips. She has always eaten a healthy diet, and she used to do exercises every day until she broke her leg at the age of 115. However, until recently she drank two glasses of strong red wine a day, and she does smoke(now only a little). Besides, Jeanne Calment might have got very good genes (基因) from her parents. Her father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to 86. A local lawyer bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money every year until her death. It must have seemed a good move at the time, but so far the lawyer has paid her at least three times the value of the house. Every year on her birthday Jeanne Calment sends him a card saying: Sorry, I"m still alive! | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. How does Jeanne Calment feel about her old age? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. She is miserable and unhappy. B. She is cheerful and humorous. C. She would like to live much longer. D. She feels she is going to die very soon. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. Jeanne Calment owes her good health and long life to ______. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. smoking only a little every day B. her giving up smoking and drinking C. drinking two glasses of strong red wine every day D. the good genes from her parents, a healthy diet and some exercises | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. Which of the following could best replace the word "move" in the fourth paragraph? | ||||||||||||||||
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| 4. Why does Jeanne Calment say" Sorry, I"m still alive" to the local lawyer every year on her birthday? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. Because she had an agreement at 80 with the lawyer which was to her advantage. B. Because she has asked the lawyer to pay her more rent than they first agreed. C. Because the lawyer has paid her much more money than the value of the house. D. Because the house she sold to the lawyer isn"t worth the money he has already paid. | ||||||||||||||||
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