| anti-black, legal, found, law, equally, selfless, president, blow, sentence, release | ||||
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| In Mount Berry, Georgia, people find a group of schools built specially for mountain children. The schools, as well as the mountain itself, are named after Martha Berry herself, a daughter of a Georgian mountaineer. Martha Berry was born in 1866. Luckier than most Georgian mountain children, she received an education But she never forgot other children of the mountains whose parents couldn"t afford to send them to school. In 1902 Martha Berry started a school for these children It was housed in a single small log cabin and was attended by only five pupils. Now, eighty years later, there are a score of Berry schools in the area, with a total of over one thousand students and waiting list of about five thousand. Martha Berry in her later years received many medals and honors for what she had done for the poor mountain children of Georgia, and in 1931 she was named one of the twelve most important women in the United States. She never stopped working for the mountain children till her death in 1942. | ||||
| 1. The first Berry School was founded ____. | ||||
| A. to honor Martha Berry B. in memory of Martha Berry C. by the efforts of Martha Berry D. in Martha Berry"s own house | ||||
| 2. In Mount Berry there are now ____. | ||||
| A. enough schools for all the local children B. still not enough schools for all the local children C. more than enough schools for all the local children D. schools for local children as well as those from other parts | ||||
| 3. Martha Berry was named one of the twelve most important women in the US because ____. | ||||
| A. she had helped develop one of the most backward areas B. she had never stopped working till her death C. she had received many medals and honors D. she had helped set up some of the most advanced schools | ||||
| 4. The passage mainly tells us ____. | ||||
| A. the history of the Berry School B. about a poor area in the United States C. Mount Berry"s development in education D. Martha Berry"s work and achievement | ||||
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| Of all the folk artists in the United States the best known of the twentieth century is certainly Grandma 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. | ||||
| 1. What is the main topic of the passage? | ||||
| A. The painting materials used by Grandma Moses. B. The major artistic influences on Grandma Moses. C. The folk art of Grandma Moses. D. The life of Grandma Moses. | ||||
| 2. According to the passage, Grandma Moses started her painting career ____. | ||||
| A. without much success B. in her sixties C. after much study D. by producing greeting cards | ||||
| 3. Why does the author mention Currier and Ives in the second paragraph? | ||||
| A. They are folk artists. 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. | ||||
| 4. According to the passage, Grandma Moses switched (转变) from needlework to painting because of ____. | ||||
| A. her desire to create landscapes B. the public"s interest in painting C. her need to make money D. a physical condition that affected her | ||||
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| Mary Somerville was born in 1780 in Burntisland, Scotland. Her contribution to mathematics was in both 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. | ||||
| 1. Why did Mary decide to study math? | ||||
| A. Because she found math interesting and wanted to study it. 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. | ||||
| 2. What does the underlined word "disapproval" in Paragraph 2 mean in this text? | ||||
| A. Disagreement. B. Agreement. C. Support. D. Discovery. | ||||
| 3. What is the main idea of the third paragraph? | ||||
| A. Mary could solve any difficult math problem easily. 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. | ||||
| 4. According to the passage, if you have been puzzled by a math problem, you"d better ____. | ||||
| A. keep working on it until it is solved 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 | ||||
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| One spring afternoon five years ago, Jimmy Liao was crying in the hall of Taipei"s Sherwood Hotel; life 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 . | ||||
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