4. The artists made many designs with their imagination.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 T　　 F

3. The artists could draw birds and animals.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 T　　 F

2.Mohammed did not allow artists to draw people.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 T　　 F

1.On the whole the passage is about ___.

　 A. Moslem Artists　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 B. a dream world

　 C. people and drawings　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. what kind of people can be artists

8.　　　 In this passage the word reservations means ____.

A.　　 places where the Indians live

B.　　 fields where the Indians work

C.　　 places where the Indians have parties

D.　　 things the Indians eat　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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%Comprehension _______

Passage 44　

Artists Who Didn’t Draw People

　 Moslems are people who believe in the teachings of a man called Mohammed. Mohammed live in the 600s.One of the things he said was that no one should make copies of living things.

　 In the 600s and 700s, the Moslems took over the Middle East. The artists of the Middle East had to follow the laws of Mohammed. For many years, they could not copy living figures. They could not draw people.

　 Do you wonder what the Moslem artists did? They used their imaginations to make many beautiful and colorful designs. To make designs, they often used the shapes of flowers. Sometimes they used the curving lines of vines and palm leaves(葡萄藤和棕榈叶的曲线).

　　 The Moslem artists used designs to decorate many different things. They decorated the walls of buildings and the pages of books. Decoration became the most important part of Moslem art.

　　 After a while, some Moslem artists could paint pictures with people in them. In Persia in the 1400s,the artists made beautiful paintings for books. Even then, decoration still filled the pictures. The people in the pictures looked strange. They looked as if they were living in a dream world.

　 　　　　　　　　　　　Length 197

Total Reading Time ___

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Answer the following questions without referring to the reading:

7.　　　 The government wanted to limited the number of animals.　　　　　　　　　　　　　 T　　 F

6.　　　 From the passage we can see that animals were important to the Navahos.　 T　　 F

5.　　　 People in that place were judged by the number of sheep and horses he had.T　 F

4.　　　 The Navahos liked small herbs of animals.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 T　　 F

3.　　　 The Navahos didn’t not have enough animals.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 T　　 F