17．Jean-Francois Millet （October 4，1814-January 20，1875）was a French painter who was famous for his scenes of farmers．
After his first painting，a portrait （肖像），was accepted at the Salon of 1840，Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter．However，the following year he married Pauline-Virginie Ono，and they moved to Paris．After being refused at the Salon of 1843and Pauline's death，Millet returned again to Cherbourg．In 1845Millet moved to Le Harvre where he painted portraits for several months，before moving back to Paris．It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet made friends with many famous artists who had great influences on him．Then he gradually revolutionized his painting style and created his own one．
This is the most well known of Millet's paintings，The Gleaners （拾穗者），in which poor women and children are removing the bits of grain left in the fields following the harvest．A warm golden light suggests something holy （神圣的） in this daily scene where the struggle to survive takes place．During his years of studies，Millet thought about how to best tell the sense of repetition and tiredness in the peasants'daily lives．Lines traced over each woman's back to the ground and then back up again and again which means their hard labor．Along the horizon （地平線），the setting sun outlines the farm with its plentiful stacks of grain，in contrast to the large shadowy figures in the foreground （前臺）．The dark dresses of the gleaners cut strong forms against the golden field，giving each woman a noble strength．
In 1857，he presented the painting The Gleaners to the Salon to an unfriendly public．
36．The passage mainly tells usD．
A．how Millent gained his fame．
B．one of Millet's paintings，The Gleaners．
C．how Millet became a portrait painter．
D．Millet's life experience and The Gleaners．
37．What does the warm golden light in the painting imply？D
A．Poor women and children are very hard-working．
B．People should go home and have a rest．
C．It is a very nice day which promises a good harvest．
D．Something related to religion deserves our respect．
38．It can be inferred from the passage thatA．
A．Millet once left Paris but returned later．
B．Millet's painting present a happy countryside．
C．Millet can express his thought very easily．
D．The public thought highly of The Gleaners at that time．
39．What does the underlined word in the third paragraph mean？C
A．A creative way of doing things．
B．New hope for the future．
C．Doing the same thing many times．
D．Disappointment with the hard life．
40．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage？A
A．Millet's new painting style was influenced by his friends．
B．People in Millet's paintings are often very active．
C．Millet was never refused by any club in his life．
D．Millet took the career as a portrait painter all his life．
分析 本文主要講述了一個法國畫家讓•弗朗索瓦•米勒的生平，他結識的很多藝術家影響著他，使他組件創造出屬于自己的藝術風格，本文重點介紹了他的作品--拾穗者．
解答 36．D 主旨大意題，通讀全文可知本文主要講述了米勒的生活經歷以及他的作品拾穗者，故選D．
37．D 細節理解題，由第三段A warm golden light suggests something holy （神圣的） in this daily scene where the struggle to survive takes place．可知畫中的the warm golden light 暗示了我們一些與宗教有關的事情是值得我們尊敬的，故選D．
38．A 推理判斷題，由第二段However，the following year he married Pauline-Virginie Ono，and they moved to Paris．After being refused at the Salon of 1843and Pauline's death，Millet returned again to Cherbourg．In 1845Millet moved to Le Harvre where he painted portraits for several months，before moving back to Paris．可知米勒搬到了巴黎又回到了瑟堡最終又回到巴黎，故選A．
39．C 理解推斷題，由第三段Lines traced over each woman's back to the ground and then back up again and again which means their hard labor．可知repetition指的是重復做同一件事情，故選C．
40．A 推理判斷題，由第二段It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet made friends with many famous artists who had great influences on him．Then he gradually revolutionized his painting style and created his own one．可知米勒的作品風格是受了他朋友的影響，故選A．
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