Question

________ twice a year, whether it is a car or a bus or a truck, is the rule that every driver must obey in this city．      

       A．Examined        B．Examining        C．Being examined    D．Having been examined

Answer 1

Charles Willson Peale’s George Washington at Princeton is on show at the Museum which was lent from a private collection . This visually （視覺上） striking and finely made life-size portrait  records Washington’s 6-foot-2-inch figure in a pose highlighting strength , calmness , and elegance .It is put up in a room neighboring to the Powel House parlor , a period room from one of Philadelphia’s greatest eighteenth-century private homes , where Washington was frequently entertained by his friends , Samuel and Elizabeth Powel . Both spaces contain important examples of furniture by Philadelphia’s finest craftsmen（工匠） , such as Thomas Afflect and John Aitken . Among these is a side chair specially ordered by the Washington when living in Philadelphia .

Painted in Philadelphia in 1779, Peale’s painting was immediately sent to Europe to raise Washington’s reputation as a leader and the cause of the American Revolution , then in progress . Later ,during Europe’s Napoleonic Wars , a Spanish  with strong sympathies with American Revolution owned the picture . At that time he added the complicated carved explanation to it , which describes Washington as “a liberator of his country who gave up absolute power.”

Curators（博物館館長）

American Art Department Staff , website commentary by Carol Soltis

Location

Galleries 286 and 287 , second floor

56．This passage is mainly about       .

       A．the cause of the American Revolution

       B．the information of a portrait on show

       C．the description of the life of George Washington

       D．the friendship between Washington and his friends

57．What is the name of the portrait?

       A．Room for Revolution                            B．Charles Wilson Peale

       C．George Washington at Princeton           

    D．George Washington and His Philadelphia Friends

58．What happened in the Powel House parlor?

       A．Washington entertained his friends.    B．Washington made a chair on his own.

       C．Charles Wilson Peale finished the portrait.

       D．Samuel and Elizabeth Powel met Washington a lot.

59．According to the passage, Washington         .

       A．lived between 1741 and 1827                B．ordered the portrait painted in 1779

       C．was sympathized by a Spanish             D．was a great man not greedy for power

60．The passage tells us that         .

       A．when the portrait was finished, America was at war

       B．the portrait was originally hanging in Samuel’s room

       C．the portrait was sent to Europe to gain support from Napoleon

       D．the explanation of the portrait was carved by Philadelphia’s finest craftsmen