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安阳县实验中学高二收心考英语试卷
C.In the Sainsbury Wing
D.In the North Wing.
出愿人:闫丽萍日期:8月24日
23.Which underground station is closest to the National Gallery?
第二部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)
A.Charing Cross.
B.Leicester Square.
第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
C.Embankment.
D.Piccadilly Circus
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
In 1945,23-year-old Joan Hinton was one of the few female nuclear physicists joining in the
The National Gallery
Manhattan Project,an American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb.Even as she reloiced in
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the project's success,she was deeply shocked when the U.S.dropped two bombs in Japan in 1945 during
The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of Trafalgar Square in
World War I.She then quit the project and left the U.S.
London.It houses a diverse collection of more than 2,300 examples of European art ranging from
In 1948,she managed to travel to Yan'an,where she married her boyfriend Erwin Engst.Her husband
13th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh.The older collections of the
got his first impressions of China from the book Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow.He came to China as
gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modern works in the East Wing are most
a member of the United Nations Reli
ief and Rehabilitation Administration in 1946 and went on to serveas
easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance.
anexpert on farm cquipment in Yan'an."My father kept on writing letters to my mom,telling her to come
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to China and thatChina was about to climb hill.If you arrive late,you'lmiss the bus,"Fred Engst,son
The modern Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building houses 13th-tol5th-century paintings,
of Hinton,said.
and artists include Duccio,Uccello,Van Eyck,Lippl,Mantegna,Botticelli and Memling.
Hinton and her husband lived a simple life in China.During her time in Yan'an,she only stood out as a
The main West Wing houses 16th-century pain