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【题目】阅读理解。

Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States，yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies．As she once said to herself：" I would never sit back in a rocking chair，waiting for someone to help me．" No one could have had a more productive old age．

She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State，one of five boys and five girls．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 pictures as a hobby，but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become 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 market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted．Three of the pictures 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 country life she had known for so long，with a wonderful sense of color and form．"I think really hard till I think of something really pretty，and then I paint it" she said．

【1】According to the passage，Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to________．

A．make herself beautiful B．keep active

C．earn more money D．become famous

【2】Grandma Moses spent most of her life________．

A．nursing B．painting

C．embroidering D．farming

【3】The underlined word “portrayals ”means________．

A．descriptions B．expressions

C．explanations D．impressions

【4】From Grandma Moses' description of herself in the first paragraph，it can be inferred that she was________．

A．independent B．pretty

C．rich D．nervous

【5】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？

A．Grandma Moses：Her Life and Pictures．

B．The Children of Grandma Moses．

C．Grandma Moses：Her Best Exhibition．

D．Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists．

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】A

【5】A

【解析】

试题分析：

【1】B 推理判断题。由第一段可知摩西奶奶七十多岁才开始作画，她作画的初衷had a more productive old age，所以选B。

【2】D 细节理解题。由第二段They farmed most of their lives，可知摩西奶奶与其丈夫一生中的大部分时间都是务农的。

【3】A 词义猜测题。Portrayals是对pictures的解释，即这两千幅画都是对乡村生活生动具体的“描述”，选A。

【4】A 推理判断题。根据摩西奶奶的话I would never sit back in a rocking chair，waiting for someone to help me．可知她是一个独立的人。

【5】A 主旨大意题。全文就是介绍了画家摩西奶奶以及她的有关作品，A项能概括文章主题。