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The primary purpose of the visit of Gugu and Zandi to Zanele' family is to ______.
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That Louis Nevelson is believed by many critics to be the greatest twentieth-century sculptor is all the more remarkable because the greatest resistance to women artists has been, until recently, in the field of sculptor. Since Neolithic times, sculpture has been considered the prerogative of men, partly, perhaps for purely physical reasons: it was erroneously assumed that women were not suited for the hard manual labor required in sculpting stone, carving wood, or working in metal. It has been only during the twentieth century that women sculptors have been recognized as major artists, and it has been in the United States, especially since the decades of the fifties and sixties that women sculptors have shown the greatest originality and creative power. Their rise to prominence parallels the development of sculpture itself in the United States, while there had been a few talent- ed sculptors in the United States before the 1940s, it was only after 1945--when New York was rapidly becoming the art capital of the world--that major sculpture was produced in the United States. Some of the best were the works of women.
By far the most outstanding of these women is Louis Nevelson, who in the eyes of many critics is the most original female artist alive today. One famous and influential critic, Hilton Krarner, said of her work, "For myself, I think Ms. Nevelson succeeds where the painters often fail."
Her work have been compared to the Cubist constructions of Picasso, the Surrealistic objects of Miro, and Merzbau of Schwitters. Nevelson would be the first to admit that she has been influenced by all of these, as well as by American sculpture, and by native American and pre-Columbian art, but she has absorbed all these influences and still created a distinctive art that expresses the urban landscape and the aesthetic sensibility of the twentieth century. Nevelson says, "I have always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere except that it has to pass through a creative mind."
Using mostly discarded wooden objects like packing crates, broken pieces of furniture, and abandoned architectural ornaments, all of which she has hoarded for years, she assembles architectural constructions of great beauty and power. Creating very freely with no sketches, she glues and nails objects together, paints them in boxes. These assemblages, walls, even entire environments create a mysterious, almost awe-inspiring atmosphere. Although she denied any symbolic or religious intent in her works, their three-dimensional grandeur and even their titles, such as Sky Cathedral and Night Cathedral, suggests such connotations. In some ways, her most ambitious works are closer to architecture than to traditional sculpture, but then neither Louis Nevelson nor her art fits into any neat category. (450)
The passage focuses primarily on ________.
Since 1971 the Canadian government has adopted policy of ______, recognizing that cultural
听力原文： At least 31 people, including 6 children were killed when a bus burst into flames after colliding with a tanker truck, which was carrying a flammable chemical in Pakistan. The accident occurred in heavy rain about 230km north of the port city of Karachi, on the country's main national highway. Police blamed poor visibility and slippery conditions caused by the rain.
What did police attribute the accident to？
•Read the article below about the impending flu.
•Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D.
•For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
The nation's supply of vaccine for the impending flu (19) took a big hit Thursday when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory.
The company said it will hold up shipment of about 50 million shots—about half the supply U.S. health (20) had hoped to have on hand this year—while it (21) what went wrong and determines whether the vaccine is safe to use.
"There's no product (22) is going to go into the arms of the American public that will not have been (23) to have met the highest standards of (24) " chief executive Howard Pien said.
Pien said the company hopes to ship between 46 million and 48 million doses by early October, about month later than (25) .
About 1 million doses have already been shipped, but no vaccines have yet reached the (26) Pien said. Vaccinations usually begin in September and (27) through the flu season.
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which oversees the nation's flu vaccine (28) , did not immediately return calls for (29) .
Chiron would not give (30) on the (31) of the contamination, which Pien said was found in a small number of (32) at the company's factory in Liverpool, England.
The company supplies about half the nation's flu vaccine. Aventis Pasteur supplies most of the (33) .
(19)
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