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阅读下面的短文，完成下面的题目

　　Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States．　　1　　．As she once said of herself：“I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me．”

　　　　2　　．At twelve she left home and was in service until at twenty-seven, she married Thomas Moses, the tenant(房客)of hers．They farmed most of their lives．She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927．

　　Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and 　　3　　, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff(僵直的)to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time．Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition, 　　4　　，who bought everything she painted．　　5　　, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York．Between the 1930’s and her death she produced some 2, 000 pictures，which were careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known, with a wonderful sense of color and form．

根据上下文进行配对并填空。

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解析：

　　答案：1．C－d　Yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies

　　2．B－e　She was born on a farm in New York State

　　3．E－a　made embroidery(刺绣)pictures as a hobby

　　4．D－b　which were soon noticed by a businessman

　　5．A－c　Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art

　　提示：配对并填空这种题目是一道把完形填空和阅读理解合并为一的题目，要求根据上下文进行阅读推理，在左边选出合适的选项，在右边配上准确的状语，看起来很简单，实际上，要求从多方面考虑。

　　第一空白处要求把上文的among the most famous和yet结合起来。她是最出名的画家之一，然而，却是在70多岁开始画画的，是转折关系。此处yet adv．“然而，但是”。暗含主人公的确是非凡人物，为下文埋下伏笔。

　　第二空白处是一个独立的句子，开头要大写。从后文的twelve，twenty-seven, married, farmed, ten children, five survived，1927等数字来看，本段是介绍她的生平的。开始写出生时间和地点。从They farmed most of their lives．看出前文要出现farm一事。前后要对应。

　　第三空白处从but看出此处应该是两个谓语并列。很容易看出made embroidery(刺绣)pictures与painted a little并列。从her hands had become too stiff(僵直的)to sew推出上文，与sew有关的活儿应该是心灵手巧的make embroidery(刺绣)pictures．as a hobby，作为一个爱好。

　　第四空白处前有逗号，逗号前是一个完整的句子，这说明逗号的后面是一个非限制性定语从句。which were soon noticed是非限制性定语从句，也是被动语态，在右边选by a businessman。

　　第五空白处要从and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York．找出玄机，一般情况下，and连接的事物，由小到大。pictures和exhibition相比后者大。in the Museum of Modern Art和in New York相比后者大。因此，填入Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art。