Question

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.

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A.Three of the pictures were shown	a. as a hobby
B.She was born	b.by a businessman
C.Yet she had only just begun painting	c. in the Museum of Modern Art
D.which were soon noticed	d. in her late seventies
E.made embroidery (刺绣) pictures	e. on a farm in New York State

　

Answer 1

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