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Grandma Moses was among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies. As she once said “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.”
She was born on a farm in New York State. At twelve she left home and was in service until at twenty-seven, she married Thomas, the tenant (佃户) of hers. They farmed most of their lives. She had ten children, of whom five survived(幸存). Her husband died in 1937.
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery (刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in her old age because her hands had become too stiff (僵硬) to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition, and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures were shown 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 pictures of the country life she had known, with a wonderful sense of color and form.
21. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. Grandma Moses
B. B. Grandma Moses and Children
C. Grandma Moses: Her First Picture
D. Grandma Moses and Her First Exhibition
22. From the underlined sentence, we can know that Grandma Moses was .
A. pretty B. alone C. rich D. independent
23. According to the passage Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to .
A. make her home beautiful B. keep active
C. improve her salary D. gain an international fame
