73.As suggested by the text, how can glass
be made less brittle?
A.It can be heated and then cooled quickly.
B.It can be cooled and then heated slowly.
C.It can be heated and then cooled slowly.
D.It can be cooled and then heated quickly.
(C)
"I would almost rather see you
dead," Robert S. Cassatt, a leading banker(银行家)of Philadelphia, shouted when his twenty-year-old
eldest daughter announced that she wanted to become an artist. In the 19th
century,playing at drawing or painting on dishes was all right for a young
lady, but serious work in art was not. And when the young lady's family ranked
among(跻身于)the best of Philadelphia's social(社交界的)families, such an idea could not even be considered.
That was how Mary Cassatt, born 1844, began
her struggle as an artist. She did not tremble before her father's anger.
Instead, she opposed(抗拒)him
with courage and at last made him change his mind. Mary Cassatt gave up her
social position(社会地位)and all thought of a husband and a
family, which in those times was unthinkable for a young lady. In the end,
after long years of hard work and perseverance(坚持), she
became America's most important woman artist and the internationally recognized
leading woman painter of the time.
