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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was a British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. She was born in Islington, London, and her father was a doctor.
The family moved to Cambridge in 1886, during which time her father prepared his plentiful collection of notes and translations for publication. However, it came to a sudden end with his death in February 1892. Her mother followed just six weeks later. After her parents’ death, Kingsley decided to travel to Africa to continue her father’s study of early religion and law and learn as much as possible about the nature of travel and exploration in the wild of Africa.
Since 1894, Kingsley had taken two trips to the west coast of Africa. She reached parts of the "Great Forest" not yet seen by a European. She collected insect, shell, plant, reptile for the British Museum, as well as studying the culture and religion of the residents. In July 1895, Kingsley turned her attention downriver from Lambaréné. Shortly after reaching Lake Ncovi, Kingsley had her first encounter with the almost legendary African creature, the gorilla (大猩猩).Kingsley summed up her feelings for the gorilla in her book Travels in West Africa, "I have seen many wild animals in their native habitat, but never have I seen anything equal gorillas going through the bush; it is a graceful, powerful, perfect hand-trapeze performance." Curiously though, Kingsley did not find the gorilla attractive, "I have no hesitation in saying that the gorilla is the most horrible wild animal I have seen. I have seen specimens of the most important big game of Central Africa and I have run away from all of them; but although elephants, leopards and pythons (巨蟒) give you a feeling of alarm, they do not give that feeling of horrible disgust that an old gorilla gives on account of its ugly appearance."
60. Kingsley decided to travel to Africa because she _____.
A. loved traveling and exploring new places
B. enjoyed the African nature and culture
C. wanted to complete her father’s study and learn more
D. lived a hard life in Europe after her parents’ death
61. Why did the author mention about Kingsley’s family?
A. Kingsley’s parents died when she was a child.
B. They moved from place to place when Kingsley was young.
C. What Kingsley’s father did had a great influence on her.
D. Kingsley’s parents were famous doctors.
62. In her Travels in West Africa, Kingsley thought the gorilla was_________.
A. powerful B. alarming C. attractive D. horrible
63. We can infer from the passage that____________.
A. Africa is an awful place for people to explore and travel to
B. Kingsley reached parts of the "Great Forest" before other Europeans
C. Kingsley got her first knowledge of Africa from her father
D. Kingsley set a good example to all European people
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期末1卷素质教育评估卷系列答案As Christmas is coming, there are presents to be bought, cards to be sent, rooms to be cleaned. Parents are 
with difficult jobs of hiding presents from curious young children. If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real 
. On Christmas Eve, young children find the 
almost unbearable（难以忍受的）. They are 
between the wish to go to bed early so that Father Christmas will bring their presents quickly and the wish to 
up late so that they will not 
the fun. The wish for gifts usually proves stronger. But though children go to bed early, they often lie 
for a long time, hoping to get a short look at Father Christmas.
Last Christmas, my wife and I 
managed to hide a few large presents in the storeroom. I feared the moment when my son, Jimmy, would 
me where that new bike had come from, but 
he did not see it.
On Christmas Eve, it took the children hours to go to sleep. It must have been nearly 
when my wife and I went quietly into their room and began 
stockings. Then I pushed in the 
I bought for Jimmy and left it beside the Christmas tree. We knew we would not get 
sleep that night, for the children were 
to get up early. At about five o'clock the next morning, we were woken by loud sounds coming from the children's room － they were shouting excitedly! 
I had time to get out of bed, young Jimmy came 
into the room on his new bike, and his sister, Mary, 
close behind pushing her new baby carriage. Even the baby arrived, he moved 
the hands and knees into the room dragging a large balloon behind him. Suddenly it burst. That woke 
up completely. The day had really begun with a bang（巨响）.
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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 (刺绣) 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.
【小题1】According to the passage, Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to_______.
| A．make herself beautiful | B．become famous |
| C．earn more money | D．keep active |
| A．nursing | B．painting | C．farming | D．embroidering |
A. expressions B explanations C. descriptions . D. impressions
【小题4】From Grandma Moses' description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she was ________.
| A．pretty | B．nervous | C．rich | D．independent |
| A．The Children of Grandma Moses. | B．Grandma Moses: Her Life and Pictures. |
| C．Grandma Moses: Her Best Exhibition. | D．Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists. |
