"I would almost rather see you dead. " Bobert S. Cassatt, a leading banker 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 racked among the best of Philadelphia’s social 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, she opposed him with courage and at last made him change his mind. Mary Cassatt gave up her social position and all thoughts of a thousand and a family, which in those times was unthinkable for a young lady. In the end, after long years of hard work and perseverance, she became America’s most important woman artist and the internationally recognized leading woman painter of the time
A. He feared for her life.
B. He was very angry.
C. He nearly killed her.
D. He warned her.
Most earthquakes occur within the upper 15 miles of the earth’s surface. But earthquakes can and do occur at all (1) to about 460 miles. Their number (2) as the depth increases. At about 460 miles one earthquake occurs only every few years. Near the surface earthquakes may run as high as 100 times in a month, but the (3) average does not vary much. (4) comparison with the total number of earthquakes each year, the number of (5) earthquakes is very small.
The (6) of the disaster in an earthquake (7) on many factors. If you carefully build a toy house with an erector set, it will still stand no matter (8) much you shake the table. But if you build a toy house with a pack of cards, a slight (9) of the table will make it fall. An earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, was not strong enough to be recorded on distant instruments, but it completely (10) the city. Many stronger earthquakes hav
A. faulty
B. limited
C. medieval
D. metallic
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