Watercolour is the oldest paints known. It dates back to the early cave men who discovered they could add lifelike qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the walls of caves by mixing the natural colours found in the earth with water.
Fresco (壁畫), one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolour. It is created by mixing paints and water and applying these to wet plaster (灰泥). Of the thousands of people who stand under Michelangelo’s heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few know that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolour painting in the world.
The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century made fresco painting go down-hill, and for the next several centuries watercolour was used mainly for doing sketches (草圖) or as a tool for study. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters put back watercolour as a serious art form. The English have a widely-known love for outdoors and also small private pictures. The softness of watercolour had a remarkably strong attraction for them.
The popularity of watercolour continued to grow until the twentieth century. The United States passed England as the center for watercolour, producing such well-known watercolour artists as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth.
【小題1】 The purpose of the passage is to introduce _____. 

A．the gradual weakness of fresco painting
B．oils’ power or influence over watercolour
C．the discovery of watercolour in England
D．the start and development of watercolour
【小題2】 In the 16th and 17th centuries the artists thought _____.
A．watercolour was softer, and thus better
B．oil painting lasted longer, and was better
C．watercolour wasn’t fit for finished works
D．watercolour was too hard to use in any works
【小題3】According to the passage, watercolour painting was put back in England because ____
A．it was easy to use outdoorsB．it was a strong medium
C．it was extremely bright in colourD．it was suited to popular tastes
【小題4】What would the next paragraph most probably deal with?
A．The works of famous US watercolour artistsB．Modern American oil painters
C．The weakness of oils as popular paintsD．Techniques of producing watercolour


【小題1】D
【小題1】C
【小題1】D
【小題1】A

解析【小題1】通過閱讀短文，可知本文主要是介紹的水彩畫的產(chǎn)生與發(fā)展歷史，故選D。
【小題1】根據(jù)第三段It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters put back watercolour as a serious art form. 及上下文描述可知選C。
【小題1】根據(jù)第三段The English have a widely-known love for outdoors and also small private pictures. The softness of watercolour had a remarkably strong attraction for them. 描述，可知選D。
【小題1】本文最后一段介紹了兩名美國(guó)著名的油畫家，故下文可能要介紹他們的作品，故選A，美國(guó)著名油畫家的作品。

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