and sour at the same time.
This tea can be served warm in winter. You can also make it a cold tea by serving with ice in summer.
21. What does the author advise people to do about making lemon juice?
A. Add much water. B. Cut a lemon into pieces
C. Get packaged lemons. D. Take away lemon seeds.
22. Which is the most common drink for a young child according to the text?
A. Banana Shake B. Coconut Water. C. Fresh Lemonade. D. Ginger Tea.
23. Who is the text mainly intended for?
A. Children. B. Parents. C. Tourist D. Teachers.
B
When it comes to the most famous 20th century painters of the United States, Grandma Moses should be
mentioned, although she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself:“I
would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.” No one could have had a more active
old age.
She was born on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At 12 she left home and was in
domestic service until at 27 she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed
most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom
five survived; her husband died in 1927.
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery( 刺 绣 ) pictures as a hobby, but only
changed to oils in old age because her hands became too stiff(僵硬的) to sew and she still wanted to keep busy
and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a
businessman who bought all that she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited( 展 览 ) in the Museum of
Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930s and her death, she
produced some 2,000 pictures: careful and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a
wonderful sense of color and form. “I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint
it,” she said.
24.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A.An introduction to Moses's life. B.Moses and her childhood.
C.Moses and her children. D.An introduction to Moses's marriage.
25.What did Grandma Moses spend most of her life doing?
A.Embroidering. B.Farming C.Nursing. D.Painting.
26.The underlined word “portrayals” in the last paragraph means ________.
A.directions B.stages C.surveys D.Descriptions
27.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Grandma Moses and Her Exhibition
B.Grandma Moses: A Woman Pioneer of 20th Century
C.Grandma Moses and Her Pictures
D.Grandma Moses: The Best Painter of 20th Century
C
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baby boomer generation. But according to a new survey, just one in three 18- to 25-year-olds are able to do basic
DIY, compared to two-thirds of those aged 58 and over.
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