70. Halley Bay
research station is very famous and plays an important role for science because
_________.
A.
it is there that British scientists have worked for almost 40 years
B.
it is there that the temperatures drop as low as -55℃
C.
it was there that the “hole” in the ozone layer was first spotted
D.
it is there that the average temperature is -5℃
(E)
The Peales
were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson
Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American
Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of
George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle
and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly once tipped his
hat to the figures in the picture.
Charles Willson
Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale
museum, which he founded in Philadelphia.
The world’s first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered
paintings by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their
natural settings. Peale found the animals himself and found a method to make
the exhibits more lifelike. The museum’s most popular display was the skeleton
(骷髅) of a huge, extinct elephant,
which Peale unearthed on a New York farm in 1801.
Three of Peale’s seventeen
children were also famous artists. Paphaelle Peale
often painted still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese. His brother Rembrandt
studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted people, including
one of George Washington. Another brother, Rubens Peale, painted mostly
landscapes and portraits.
James Peale, the brother of
Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures (小画像). His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was
probably the first professional female portrait painter in America.