Question

    Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. He won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.

When he was nineteen, he visited Paris. Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials. In 1973, he was dead. He is the greatest artist in the world.

任务 2 ：阅读短文，根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。

1.v_______ to go and spend time in a place

2.p_______ someone who paints pictures

任务 3 ：阅读短文，进行同义句转换，每空一词。

3.When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man.

When he was ________ ________ ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man.

任务 4 ：根据短文内容 回答问题。

4.Who did Pablo Picasso learn to draw from?

__________________________________________.

5.How old was Pablo Picasso when he died?

__________________________________________.

6.Was Pablo Picasso born in the nineteenth century?

__________________________________________.

Answer

1.visit

2.painter

3. more than

4.His father.

5.He was 92.

6.Yes.

【解析】

该短文主要讲述毕加索在早年受到父亲的启蒙教育，并在15岁时就获得第一个奖项，然后远赴法国学艺，并在巴黎定居直至最后去世的生平经历，他是世界上最伟大的艺术家。

1.to go and spend time in a place意思是“去花费时间在一个地方”，也就是去参观一个地方，所以这里应该是visit的解释，故答案为visit。

2.someone who paints pictures意思是“画画的人”，也就是画家，英语是painter，故答案为painter。

3.句意：当他九十多岁时，这位伟大的画家仍然像年轻人一样生活。

根据原句及所给的句子可知，这里需要替换的是“超过”，英语是over/ more than，而原句中用的是over，所以这里可以改写成more than，故答案为more than。

4.根据文中His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. 他的父亲是一位画家和美术老师，他给儿子上了第一堂绘画课。可知是他的父亲教他，故答案为His father。

5.根据文中Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. 毕加索1881年生于西班牙。以及文章最后In 1973, he was dead. 1973年，他去世了。可知他去世的时候是92岁（1973-1881=92），故答案为He was 92.

6.根据文中Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. 毕加索1881年生于西班牙。可知他出生于1881年，英语中世纪比年份要多1，所以也就是19世纪，所以这里的表述是正确的，故答案为Yes。