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Until about 150 years ago, the most important, expensive and renowned kind of painting was large-scale pictures that told a story, regarded as the (hard) challenge for an artist. (choose) suitable subjects, artists had to be well-read. Then they had to know stories could be told without words, using only gestures and expressions. To create lifelike scenes, they had to understand perspective, lighting and anatomy. So history painting needed a lot of thought and . (imagine). Large-scale pictures used to be reserved for grand religious or patriotic subjects, but that changed in the 19th century, as artists began creating history paintings based contemporary news stories. One of the first of these was The Raft of the Medusa, inspired by the wreck of French ship in 1816, which showed how art could have a powerful political impact. It presents a scene the survivors of the wreck on a raft littered with bodies try to signal to a distant ship. When they ( rescue ), they told how they had been abandoned by their captain, while he sailed to safety in a lifeboat. Starving, they had to eat each other to survive—though this picture makes look heroic rather than violent. The picture caused a huge outcry. Some people thought the artist meant to criticize the French king, had been involved in appointing the ship's captain.

【原创】Years ago, when Barbara started looking for her first job, wise advisers urged,"Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you__ (far)than any amount of experience." How right they were!
Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into adventure, extra work into opportunities and strangers into(friend).
"Nothing great had been ever (achieve)without enthusiasm," wrote Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that (whisper)"I can do it!" when others shout,"No, you can't do it."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara to be __(general)accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experirments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never (think)stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder—as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys. It is the (child)wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, their age.
How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The , I believe, lies in the word itself. Enthusiastic people also 1ove what they do, regardless of money or title or power.

【原创】What is red but green, open but closed and old but new? Answer: London's new double-decker buses.
The traditional red double-deckers are symbol of London. Their symbolic status was settled in 2008 when one bus made the longer-than-usual trip to Beijing (collect) a very special passenger: the Olympic Flame.
Now a new bus design(uncover) and it has been exciting Londoners.
The new bus uses more efficient green technology and has two staircases and an open platform, (make) people able to hop on and hop off. It also has a unique design for the front end, which gives it an innovative（新颖的）look.
Despite(尽管） innovations, the design is not all new. Its outward appearance takes after London's faithful old double-decker, the Route master.
In July 2008 a (compete) was launched by the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, to design a new Route master bus for the capital. There were over 700 entries, several designers jointly winning the £25,000 (244,000 Yuan) prize.
The new double-deckers, _____ _____ have three doors to speed up boarding, are expected to be in service in 2012.
Mr. Johnson said: “This iconic new part of our transport system is not only beautiful, but also has a green heart beating beneath its __________ (attract) appearance.”
He expects cities around the globe to be “beside themselves with envy” for _________ he described as a “stunning red symbol” of 21st-century London.

Everyone has his own attitude to getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ________ (weep).“I love being seven,”she cried.“I don’t want to be eight!”I held her in my arms and explained that it was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and what a wonderful birthday she was going to have. _______ (eventual) she was comforted. It’s always strange ____ (tell) that you are a year older, even when you aren’t very old. Now I’m in my early 60s, and I don’t always recognize the face in the mirror, but something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging increasingly interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me _____ (frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is an ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members who have died before me.

Many people think that teachers give pupils too much homework．They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time．Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not （proper）plan the homework tasks they give to pupils．The result is that pupils have to repeat tasks that they （do）at school already．
In Greece，many parents complained about the difficult homework that teachers gave to their children．The parents said that most of the homework was a waste of time，and they wanted to stop it．Spain and Turkey are two countries which stopped homework．In Denmark，Germany and several other （country）in Europe，teachers cannot set homework at weekends．In Holland，teachers allow pupils （stay）at school to do their homework．The children are free to help one another．Similar （arrange）also exists in some British schools．
Most people agree that homework is not fair．A pupil doing his homework in a quiet and comfortable room is in a much （good）position than a pupil who does his homework in a small，（noise）room with the television on．Some parents help their children with their homework．Other parents take no interest in their children’s homework at all．