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阅读理解 　　Watercolor(水彩)is the oldest painting medium．It dates back to the early cave dwellers(居住者)who discovered they could add lifelike qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the walls of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth, with water． 　　Fresco(壁画), one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor．It is created by mixing pigments(颜料)and water and applying these to wet plaster．Of the thousands of people, who stand under Michelanglo’s heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few are aware that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world． 　　The invention of oil painting of the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century led to a decline in fresco painting and for the next several centuries watercolor was used mainly as a medium for doing preliminary sketches or as a tool for study．It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters reinstated(恢复)watercolor as a serious art form．The English have a notorious love for the outdoors and also a great fondness for small pictures． 　　The popularity of watercolor continued to grow until, in the twentieth century, the United States passed England as the center for watercolor, producing such well-known watercolor artists as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth． (1) From the passage, we can know that ________ were the beginners of watercolor． [　　] A． Thomas Eakins B． Andrew Wyeth C． the Flemish masters D． the cave dwellers (2) Where is the main material of the first watercolor from? [　　] A． From flowers． B． From rocks． C． From the ground． D． From the U．S． (3) What does this passage mainly tell us? [　　] A． Watercolor in England． B． Watercolor in America． C． The color of the ancient caves． D． To look back on watercolor． (4) Which is right? [　　] A． Watercolor is always popular since it came into being． B． Watercolor is only enjoyed in the 16th century． C． In the 20th century, watercolor is more acceptable in U．S．than in the U．K． D． The English like watercolor as well as the indoor movements．

Answer 1

答案：1．D;2．C;3．D;4．C;
解析：

(1)	从第一段“It dates back to the early cave dwellers…”看出水彩画可追溯到早期穴居人时期，穴居人是水彩的开创者。
(2)	从第一段中的“…by mixing the natural colors found in the earth．”看出水彩的主要材料是来自土地。
(3)	第一段讲水彩是最古老的绘画方式，第二段讲壁画是水彩画的，第三段讲油画发明后，水彩受到淡化，第四段指出美国成为水彩中心，由此看出这篇文章是对水彩的回顾。look back意为“回顾”。
(4)	从最后一段的“…in the twentieth century, the United States passed England as the center for watercolor”，看出在20世纪水彩在美国更受欢迎。