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UNIT 3 课时跟踪检测(四) 重点题型强化练
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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Every day since early July, Tiffany Wong has been painting a small watercolor of one woman and then has been sharing the painting on the Internet, providing background information about each woman. Wong started the project to give more people a chance to learn about the different roles of famous women in history.“We don't really get to learn much about them in our school,” Wong said.“I wanted to make the women's history more available for people so that they wouldn't have to do research and they wouldn't forget their achievements.”
Wong's interest in the women's history started when she was young. As a child in California, she read books about women, including scientist Barbara McClintock, doctor Elizabeth Blackwell and other outstanding women.
The idea to develop her own women's history project was inspired in part by a free course through HarvardX, the Harvard University's developer of online courses. Wong has worked there for the past five years after learning international education policy from the university. The Schlesinger Library provided another inspiration for Wong. In 2018, she visited the library's 75th anniversary exhibit, which told the stories of women through 75 documents and objects.
As an artist since childhood, Wong decided her project would include both paintings and research about the women.“The written part of the post consumes energy and brain and often takes longer than the painting,” Wong said. Whenever possible, she used original sources and quotes, often referring to papers and other documents.
None of the paintings includes the facial features of the women, which is a painting style that makes the paintings easier to do, while giving people an opportunity to see themselves in the image. “I wanted something open,” Wong said. “I wanted people to feel like they could also be these people.”
Her subjects occasionally notice her posts. In February, Wong wrote about the career of Merritt Moore, a physicist an