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(2020·合肥市教学质量检测)The following four famous paintings—from Jan van Eyck's portrait to Pablo Picasso's masterpiece—have stood the test of time.
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, an oil painting on wood produced in 1434，in which a man and a woman hold hands with a window behind him and a bed behind her，is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces in the National Gallery，London.This painting is not only visually interesting but also famed.It is also an informative document on fifteenthcentury society，through Jan van Eyck's heavy u of symbolism—while husbands went out to engage in business，wives concerned themlves with domestic duties.
The Starry Night
gmapsVincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night，an oil on canvas(油画布)，a moderately abstract landscape painting of a night sky over a small hillside village，during his 12month stay at the mental hospital in SaintRémydeProvence，France between 1889 and 1890.When the Muum of Modern Art in New York City purchad the painting from a private collector in 1941, it was not well known，but it has since become one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous works.
The Harvesters
The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565.It depicts(描绘)the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of July and August. Nicolaes Jonghelinck，a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, once held this painting.The painting has been at the Metropolitan Muum of Art in New York City since 1919.hm是什么东西
Guernica
Guernica，a large oil painting，was painted by the Cubist (立体派的)Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso in 1937.The title Guernica refers to the city that was bombed during the war.The painting depicts the horrors of war and as a result，has come to be an antiwar symbol and a reminder of the tragedies of war.Today，the painting is houd at the Muo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.
【语篇解读】 本文介绍了四幅世界绘画名作的相关情况，包括其创作时间、画作内容等。
1．Which of the following paintings was produced earliest?
A．Guernica. B．The Harvesters.protester
C．The Starry Night. D．The Arnolfini Portrait.
D [细节理解题。根据文章对四幅画的介绍可知，The Arnolfini Portrait的创作时间是1434年，The Starry Night创作于1889至1890年间，The Harvesters创作于1565年，Guernica创作于1937年。对上述四幅画的创作时间进行对比可知，D项正确。]
2．Who created the painting describing the harvest asons?
A．Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
B．Vincent van Gogh.
C．Jan van Eyck.
D．Pablo Picasso.
A [细节理解题。根据The Harvesters部分第二句“It depicts(描绘)the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of July and August”可知，Pieter Bruegel the Elder的画作描述了丰收季节的情况。故选A。 ]
3．What do we know about the painting The Starry Night?
A．It was painted on wood in oils.
B．It described the painter's life in hospital.
C．It wasn't widely recognized before 1941.
D．It was given away to the muum by a collector.
韩语发音器C [细节理解题。根据The Starry Night部分最后一句可知，1941年，当纽约现代艺术博物馆从一位私人收藏家手中买下这幅画时，它并不太有名，但后来却成为梵高最著名的作品之一。故选C。]
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hateyouI．M.Pei，the ChineAmerican，who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects，has died at the age of 102.
go to goAlthough he worked mostly in the United States，Pei will always be remembered for a European project：His redevelopment of the Louvre Muum in Paris in the 1980s.He gave us the glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard，along with three smaller pyramids and a vast subterranean(地下的)addition to the muum entrance.
Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history，and initially his designs were fiercely oppod.But in the end，the French—and everyone el—were won over.Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983，he was thought of as giving the 20th century“some of its most beautiful interior spaces and His versatility nevertheless用法and skill in brilliant是什么意思the u of materials approach the level of poetry”．
After studying architecture at the Massachutts Institute of Technology and Harvard，Pei t up his own architectural practice in New York in 1955.
Designing the John F．Kennedy Presidential Library & Muum in 1964 established him as a name. His East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978 changed people's ideas of a muum.The site was an odd trapezoid(梯形)shape.Pei's solution was to cut it in two.The resulting building was dramatic，light and elegant—one of the first crowdpleasing muums of modern art.
Though known as a modernist，and notable for his forms bad on arrangements of simple geometric(几何的)shapes，he once urged Chine architects to look more to their
architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style.
In person，I.M.Pei was goodhumored，charming and unusually modest.His working process was evolutionary，but innovation(创新)was never an intended goal.
