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Grandma Moses is among the most celebrated twentieth?century painters of the United States, yet she had barely started painting before she was in her late seventies. As she once said of herself: “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.” No one could have had a more productive age.

? She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls.(“We came in bunches, like radishes.”) At twelve she left home and was in domestic service until, at twenty?seven, she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived;her husband died in 1927.?Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery // too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a fair, and were soon spotted by a dealer who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the

1930's and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures: detailed and lively portrayals of the rural life she had known for so long, with a marvelous sense of color and form. “I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it.” she said.?

h of the following would be the best title for the passage??

A) Grandma Moses: A Biographical Sketch

B) The Children of Grandma Moses?

C) Grandma Moses: Her Best Exhibition?

D) Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists?

rding to the passage, Grandma Moses began to paint because she wante

d to ?____?. ?

A) decorate her home?

B) keep active?

C) improve her salary ?

D) gain an international reputation?

Grandma Moses'description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she was ?____?.?

A) independent B) pretty?

C) wealthy D) timid?

dma Moses spent most of her life ____?.?

A) nursing B) painting?

C) embroidering D) farming?

line 14, the word “spotted” could best be replaced by ____.?

A) speckled B) featured?

C) noticed D) damaged?

答案與解析：

1.A。

本文的最佳標題是什麼 ? 本題考察對整篇文章的'綜合概括能力。整篇文章都是關於 Grandma Moses簡略的自傳和她的藝術生涯，故應選 A項作本篇文章的標題。

2.B。

根據短文所述， Grandma Moses開始學畫畫是因爲她想保持活力。本題爲一般推理題，需要從字裏行間找答 案。在這篇文章的第一段中，曾經引用她的一句話：“ I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.”所以她畫畫的目的是爲讓自己多活動，而非其它原因。

3.A。

從第一段 Grandma Moses的自述中可以推斷出她具有獨立性。本題爲判斷分析題，需要根據關鍵詞語進行推斷。在第一段中的那句話，可以看出來，她有 very strong sense of independence.故選A)。

4.D。

Grandma Moses把大部分時間花在耕作上。本題爲一般理解題，只要仔細閱讀，很容易從字裏行間找到答案。在第二段中間一句話“… They farmed almost of their lives…”，可以看出她一生中大部分時間用於farming。

5.C。

文章第十七行中的單詞“ spotted”的最佳替代詞是什麼? 此題爲語義測試題。根據上下文可以看出她的作品被那個商人發現並注意到她的藝術價值，故選 C)