Read the following article and answer the question. Article: When Frida Kahlo's paintings were on show in London, a poet described her paintings as " a ribbon around a bomb". Such comments seem to suggest Kahlo had a big influence on the art world of her time. Sadly, she is actually _ today than she was during her time. Born in 1907 in a village near Mexico City , Kahlo suffered from polio at the age of seven. Her spine become bent as she grew older. Then, in 1925, her back was broken in several places in a school-bus accident. Throughout the rest of her life, the artist had many operations, but nothing was able to cure the terrible pain in her back. However, the accident had an unexpected side effect. While lying in her bed recovering, Kahlo taught herself to paint. In 1929, she got married to Diego Rivera, another famous Mexican artist. Rivera's strong influences on Kahlo's style can be seen in her early works, but her later works from the 1940s, known today as her best works, show less influence from her husband. Unfortunately, her works did not attract much attention in the 1930s and1940s, even in her home country. Her first one-woman show in Mexico was not held until 1953.For more than a decade after her death in 1954, Kahlo's works remained largely unnoticed by the world, but in the 1970s her works began to gain international fame at last. Question: Kahlo's style had become increasingly independent since the _ Answer:
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- 1950s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1970s
1940s
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: April 2009, in the state of Georgia, USA, twenty thousand people watched high school students from twenty- eight countries compete with robots they had built. More than ten thousand students and more than five hundred robots took part in the competition. Almost 1,700 high school teams took part in the competition called LUNACY. In January, the organization sent the same robots to each team. The teams had six weeks to build robots that could compete in the LUNACY game. The playing area consisted of six robots, three on each team. Each robot had a trailer connected to it. The robots had to pick up large balls and throw them into the trailers of opposing robots. The robots were moving on a platform where they could move smoothly. A team from the USA won the LUNACY competition. American inventor Dean Kamen started the competition in 1989 to increase young people's interest in science and technology. The organization holds robotic competitions around the world. It offers programs that help young people learn about science, technology, engineering and maths, and at the same time build life skills. Many companies provide support for the organization. Mr. Kamen says the goal is more than building robots. He says the student competitors showed they could solve difficult technological problems and, he says that it is good news because the world needs creative thinkers to solve the increasingly difficult problems of the future. Question: In order to win the LUNACY competition, the robots need to _ . Answer:
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- have the most trailers connected to them
- throw the most balls into the trailers of the opposing robots
- stand still when throwing balls
- move the trailers as fast as possible to get the balls
throw the most balls into the trailers of the opposing robots
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Living near the beach may come with an extra perk : better health. A new study analyzed information from more than 48 million people in England and found that the nearer they lived to the coast, the more likely people were to report good health within the past year. Living near the coast may be associated with better health because the seaside environment reduces stress, the researchers said. They pointed to another British study that found that people who took trips to the coast experienced more feelings of calmness and relaxation than those who visited urban parks or the countryside. The difference from living near the coast was relatively small. But a small effect, when applied to an entire population, can have a substantial impact on public health, said study researcher Ben Wheeler of Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in Exeter, England. However, it's too soon to advise people to hit the beach to improve health, Wheeler said. The study only found an association, not a cause-effect link, and it's possible that other factors could explain the results. For instance, it could be that people who are wealthier, and therefore healthier, are more able to move to desired locations such as the coast, Wheeler said, a phenomenon known as the migrant effect. But the study did find that the association between coastal living and better health was strongest for those living in the poorest areas, which perhaps indicates that wealth cannot explain the results, Wheeler said. Because the study looked at only England--an island country in which everyone lives within 72 miles of the coast--it's not clear whether the findings would apply to other populations. Far from England, a health expert not involved in the study said that while the British research certainly doesn't prove that people's health and the place they live are linked, it's possible that _ to the seas does something for our bodies. If future studies confirm the results, the next step would be to find out it is what coastal environments that can... Question: We can conclude from the passage that _ . Answer:
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- people are encouraged to move to the coast
- people living near the sea may be healthier.
- people pay increasingly attention to health
- people are worried about residential environment
people living near the sea may be healthier.
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: If you have seen or heard of the British TV series Downton Abbey, you have probably noticed an "upstairs-downstairs" class system in which the noble people are upstairs, worrying what clothes they should wear for dinner and the poor people are downstairs, working hard to make food and tea. So it's not hard to tell that people are divided into different classes. British society has changed a lot since the days of Downton Abbey, but the division still exists and the funny accents do, too. Nowadays, what divides Britons is the so-called "North-South divide". As you make your way north from the south coast of England, the accent begins to change. The posh "How are you" in parts of the South becomes "Ahhdu" (how do you do) in the Midlands, "reeit" (are you all right) in the North West, "eyyup" (what's up) in Yorkshire, and "hou's it gaun" (how's it going) in Scotland. Besides accents, the economy also changes. The rich southern city of London slowly becomes the North where people general have less money. So where does the "South" stop being the "South" and the "North" start being the "North"? Well, depending on where someone comes from in Britain, you'll get a different answer. "Anywhere above London is 'the North'," you might hear a Londoner say. Or if you're in Scotland, you might hear, "Southern softer!", talking about a person from Lancashire or Yorkshire, who think of themselves as "hard (tough) Northerners". "Anywhere south of Manchester is not northern," you might hear a person from Manchester say. Many stereotypes have come from the "North-South Divide", too. Often, southerners are seen as being rude and snobbish by northerners. And northerners are often seen as uneducated by southerners. Today, the career you have and the person you marry don't depend on where you were born or what class you are from. But as London is getting richer and people are moving to the South for work, the North-South divide is getting bigger. Yet for all that divides us, the truth is, we couldn't live without each other! Question: What is the passage mainly talking about? Answer:
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- British accents are different from North to South.
- Class division is getting smaller at present.
- It is about the "North-South Division" and its influence.
- Northerners and Southerners dislike each other in Britain.
It is about the "North-South Division" and its influence.
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