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1. How did Mr Cassatt react(·´Ó¦)when his daughter made her announcement?
¡¡He feared for her life.
¡¡he was very angry.
¡¡he nearly killed her.
¡¡he warned her.

2. What in fact was Mr Cassatt¡®s main reason in opposing his daughter¡¯s wish?
¡¡Drawing and Painting was simply unthinkable among ladies in those days.
¡¡He did not believe his daughter wanted to work seriously in art.
¡¡He believed an artist¡¯s life would be too hard for his daughter.
¡¡Ladies of good families simply did not become artists in those days.

3.What made Mary Cassatt¡®s ¡° struggle¡±to become a recognized artist especially hard?
¡¡She was a woman.
¡¡Her father opposed her.
¡¡She had no social positon.
¡¡she did not come from an artist¡®s family.

4. What do we know about Mary Cassatt¡¯s marriage(»éÒö)?
¡¡Her marriage failed because she never gave a thouht to her husband and family
¡¡She never married because she did not want to be just a wife and mother.
¡¡After marriage she decided to give up her husband rather than her career(ÊÂÒµ)
¡¡She did not marry because for a lady of her social position to marry below her was unthinkabel.

passage 2

¡¡ O.Henry was a pen name used by an Americna writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter.He was born in North Carolia in 1862.As a young boy he lived an exciting life. Hw did not go to school for very ling ,but he mnaged to teach hmeself everything he needed to know.When he was about 20 years old , O.Henry went to Texas,where he tried different jobs.He first worked on a newspaper,and then had a job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O.Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that , he ws sent to prison. During the three years in prison,he lerned to write short stories.After he got out of prison,he went to New York and continued writing.Hw wrote mostly aout New York and the life of the poor there.People liked his stories,because simple as the tales were, they would finidh with a sudden change at the end,to the readers¡® surprise.

1. In which order did O.Henry do the following things?
¡¡he was a cruel man.
¡¡he was a stubborn man.
¡¡he knew nothing about art.
¡¡he knew little about his daughter.

2.People enjoyed reading O.Henry¡¯s stories because_____.
¡¡She was brave in going against old ideas.
¡¡She was tired of always obeying her father.
¡¡She hated playing at drawing and painting.
¡¡She did not mind being poor at all.

3. O.Henry went to prison because_____.
¡¡Money
¡¡Career
¡¡Marriage
¡¡Courage

4.What do we know about O.Henry before he began writing?
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¡¡c,e,b,d,f,a
¡¡e,b,d,c,a,f
¡¡c,b,e,d,a,f

passage 3

¡¡Historians may well look back on the 1980s in the United States as a time of rising affluence sideª²byª²side with rising poverty. The growth in affluence is attributable to an increase in professional and technical jobs, along with more twoª²career couples whose combined incomes provide a ¡°comfortable living¡±.Yet simultaneously, the nation¡®s poverty rate rose between 1973 and 1983 from 11.1 percent of the population to 15.2,or by well over a third. Although the poverty rate declined somewhat after 1983, it was still held at 13.5 percent in 1987, comprising a population of 32.5 million Americans.¡¡
The definition of poverty is a matter of debate. In 1795, a group of English magistrates decided that a minimum income should be ¡°the cost of a gallon loaf of bread, multiplied by three, plus an allowance for each dependent¡±.Today the Census Bureau defines the threshold of poverty in the United States as the minimum amount of money that families need to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet, assuming they use oneª²third of their in