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第49 至 52 題為題組 Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenthcentury. Born and raised in Boston, he began his career at age eighteen in his hometown, working as anapprentice at a printing company. Skilled at drawing, he soon made a name for himself makingillustrations for novels, sheet music, magazines, and children’s books. He then moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance illustrator with Harper’s Weekly,a popular magazine of the time, and began painting. Homer was assigned to cover the inauguration ofPresident Lincoln and, later, the Civil War. His pictures of the Union troops won international recognition.Homer moved to England and, after a two-year stay, returned to America. He settled permanently inMaine in 1883. From the late 1850s until his death in 1910, Winslow Homer produced a body of work distinguishedby its thoughtful expression and its independence from artistic conventions. A man of multiple talents,Homer excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil painting, and watercolor. Many of hisworks—depictions of children at play and in school, farm girls attending to their work, hunters and theirprey—have become classic images of nineteenth-century American life. Others speak to more universalthemes such as the primal relationship of humans to nature.This two-week exhibition highlights a wide and representative range of Homer’s art. It shows hisextraordinary career from the battlefields, farmland, and coastal villages of America, to the North Seafishing village of Cullercoats, the rocky coast of Maine, the Adirondacks, and the Caribbean. Theexhibition offers viewers an opportunity to experience and appreciate the breadth of his remarkableartistic achievement

【題組】49. Where does this passage most likely appear?
(A) On an ad featuring contemporary arts.
(B) On a website of an art gallery.
(C) In a booklet on American-born British artists.
(D) In an encyclopedia on the art of printing.

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答案：B
難度：適中0.578947
統計：A(4),B(22),C(5),D(6),E(0)

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. Born and raised in Boston, he began his career at age eighteen in his hometown, working as an apprentice at a printing company. Skilled at drawing, he soon made a name for himself making illustrations for novels, sheet music, magazines, and children’s books. 溫斯洛 霍默(1836-1910)被很多人認為是 19 世紀最傑出的美國畫家。在波士頓出生長大,18 歲時,他在他的家鄉開始他的事業,在印刷廠當學徒。因為擅長畫畫,他很快地在小說、樂譜、雜誌和童書上畫插圖為自己獲得名聲。He then moved to New York City, wher...

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