Watercolor is the oldest painting
medium known. It dates back to the early cave dwellers 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, one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor. It
is created by mixing pigments and water and applying these to wet plaster. Of
the thousands of people who stand under Michlangelo’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
by 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 A. The decline of fresco painting. B. The predominance of oils over watercolor. C. The rediscovery of watercolor in England. D. The origins and development of watercolor.
[单项选择] Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage:
The growth of population during the
past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight
upward toward infinity and doom. On the contrary, demographic history offers
evidence that population growth has not been at all constant. According to
paleo-ecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous
changes. The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B. C. ,
followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using. But when the new power
from the use of tools had been exploited, the rate of world population growth
fell and became almost stable. The next rapid jump in population
started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when men began to keep herds, plow and plant
the earth. Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the
rat A. Human population expands at a straight upward trend. B. Population growth has shown ups and downs in demographic history. C. Population growth can not be regarded as a social failure. D. Increase in population is related to productivity.
[单项选择] Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:
The Xinhua bookstore chain, China’s
largest official publishing enterprise, has become a surprising flash point for
interest among foreign venture capital investors. "We are
actively promoting the process of shareholding reform. Every day, we receive
lots of offers from domestic and foreign investors interested in getting
involved and may pick one or two to do so in the next two to three months,"
Zhang Yashan, the leading cadre of the head store’s office said.
According to a company insider who requested anonymity, several securities
firms are overseeing Xinhua bookstore’s reform and the company could list on the
domestic stock market once reforms are repotted to the government in May and
then completed. The source would not reveal the specific names
of the firms involved or detail A. Largest. B. Official. C. Private. D. Prosperous.
[单项选择]Questions 11—13 are based on the following passage. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11—13.Why should children be educated about the harm of smoking at an early age A. Because small children are more curious about cigarettes. B. Because smoking is difficult to give up for children. C. Because the early age is the time to form values. D. Because children’s health is more venerable to the hurt of cigarette.
[单项选择]Questions 17—20 are based on the following passage. You now have 15 seconds to read questions 17—20.Why does the speaker say that radiation is similar to radio waves A. Because both of them can be detected by human senses. B. Because both of them can be sensed by a radio receiver. C. Because both of them are harmful. D. Because both of them can only be detected by devices.
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