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Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as "Grandma" Moses, began to paint in 1938 at
the age of 78, after giving up embroidery due to an arthritic condition. Two
years later her first exhibition was held and this 80-year-old self-taught
artist experienced sudden and dramatic success. Moses had spent her life first
as a hired girl and later as the wife of a farmer, and her paintings
reflected the peace and simplicity of the country life she had always
known. Scenes such as harvesting, collecting sap for maple syrup, county fairs
and landscapes in all seasons from snow-covered villages to summer fields,
were the pleasant subjects she chose for her work.
People were attracted to Moses' appealing subjects and her renditions
of the seasons and landscapes of her native New York State. However they were
just as moved by the story of this gifted octogenarian who with no
formal training went from complete obscurity to world fame in a handful
of years, and who opened up for them a rustic world of tranquility and
simple pleasure they yearned to enjoy.
1) Which of the following words could best be substituted for "reflected"?
(A) Polished
(B) Caught
(C) Recognized
. (D) Copied |
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| 2) The word "renditions" could best be replaced by which of the
following?
(A) Depictions (B) Recollections
(C) Translations (D) Patterns |
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| 3) The word "octogenarian" could best be replaced by which of the
following?
(A) Person in his seventies (B) Person in his
nineties
(C) Person in his eighties (D) Person who has
eight talents |
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| 4) The word "obscurity" could best be replaced by which of the
following?
(A) Uncertainty (B)
Incomprehensibility
(C) Poverty (D) Unknown |
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| 5) Which of the following words could best be substituted for "rustic"?
(A) Degenerate (B) Country
(C) Rusted (D) Contemporary |
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| 6) The word "yearned" could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) Longed (B) Appeared
(C) Contemplated (D) Imagined |
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In the brutal high-desert environment of California's White Mountains, the
bristlecone pines, their bare and twisted frames looking more dead than alive,
preside over an eerie rock-strewn landscape. Capable of enduring
bitter cold, ceaseless wind and extreme drought, the bristlecones are
the oldest living things on earth, enduring for more than 4,000 years. In many
cases, much of the tree's wood is dead, but live branches persistently
grow from trunks and limbs. Ironically, for all their ability to exist under
such harsh conditions, the bristlecone pine could not exist in another
environment, having lost its ability to produce hardier strains that
could compete with other trees and vegetation. In all probability, these trees
will never extend their range, and are essentially at the end of their
evolutionary development.
7) Which of the following words could best be substituted for "eerie"?
(A) Irritating (B) Ghostly
(C) Artificial (D) Faraway |
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| 8) The word "strewn" could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) Damaged (B) Looking
(C) Scattered (D) Shaped |
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| 9) The word "ceaseless" could best be replaced by which of the
following?
(A) Continual (B) Corrosive
(C) Potent (D) Infinite |
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| 10) The word "persistently" could best be replaced by which of the
following?
(A) Perilously (B)
Imaginatively
(C) Tenaciously (D) Harmoniously |
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| 11) The word "strains" could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) Traces (B) Varieties
(C) Remnants (D) Projections |
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| 12) Which of the following words could best be substituted for "range"?
(A) Length (B) Sphere
(C) Wilderness (D) Scope |
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Art as a reflection of human social history is clearly
illustrated in the Pop Art style of the 1960s. In the post-World War II
years, Americans were inundated with material goods from cars to
kitchen appliances. The manufactured products and ready-made experiences with
which Americans surrounded themselves were part of a modern era epitomized
by TV screens, slick magazines, fast food and airconditioned cars.
Dramatic cultural changes occurred in American life, which profoundly
affected American painting, in style as well as content.
The ever-multiplying images of the new consumer society became the
subjects of Pop (for popular) Art, represented in paintings by Andy
Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and James Rosenquist. These artists
not only used standardized, mass-produced goods as the subjects of
their paintings but came as close as they could to the containers in which
these products were packaged. Andy Warhol's One Hundred Campbell's Soup
Cans (1962), Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! (1963), and James
Rosenquist's F-III (1965) are examples of the artists' use of
ordinary objects, presented as they appear, as subjects for painting. In doing
so, these Pop artists were presenting a "new realism," or reflection, of
contemporary life in America.
13) The word "reflection" could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) Imagination (B)
Contemplation
(C) Representation (D) Absorption |
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| 14) Which of the following words could best be substituted for
"inundated"?
(A) Ruined (B) Beaten
(C) Embarrassed (D) Overwhelmed |
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| 15) The word "epitomized" could best be replaced by which of the
following?
(A) Typified (B) Systemized
(C) Supervised (D) Glorified |
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| 16) The word "slick" could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) Smooth (B) Glossy
(C) Monotonous (D) Educational |
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| 17) Which of the following words could best be substituted for
"profoundly"?
(A) Deeply (B)
Mysteriously
(C) Partially (D)
Scientifically |
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| 18) The word "contemporary" could best be replaced by which of the
following?
(A) Fashionable (B) Advanced
(C) Untraditional (D) Present-day |
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