The painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and grew up on her family's farm.At seventeen she decided to be an artist and left the farm for schools in Chicago and New York，but she never lost her contact with the land.Like most painters，O'Keeffe painted the things that were most important to her，and nearly all her works are simplified portrayals（描繪）of nature.
   O'Keeffe became famous when her paintings were discovered and exhibited in New York by the photographer Alfred Stieglitz，whom she married in 1924.During a visit to New Mexico in 1929，O'Keeffe was so moved by the bleak（荒涼的）landscape and broad skies of the western desert that she began to paint its images.Cows' skulls and other bleached bones found in the desert figured prominently in her paintings.When her husband died in 1946，she moved to New Mexico permanently and used the horizon lines of the desert，colourful flowers，rocks，barren hills，and the sky as subjects for her paintings.Although O'Keeffe painted her best-known works in the 1920s，1930s and 1940s，she continued to produce tributes to the western desert until her death in 1986.
   O'Keeffe is widely considered to have been a pioneering American modernist painter.While most early modern American artists were strongly influenced by European art，O'Keeffe's position was more independent.She created her own vision and preferred to view her painting as a private effort.Almost from the beginning，her work was more identifiably（可識(shí)別地）American than other painters in its special treatment of colour，light，space and natural forms.

（1）Alfred Stieglitz

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A．was a film director
B．married O'Keeffe in 1924
C．died in 1986
D．became famous when his paintings were exhibited in New York
（2）Which of the following is most similar to O'Keeffe's relationship with nature？

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A．A photographer's relationship with a model.
B．A writer's relationship with a publisher.
C．A student's relationship with a book.
D．A carpenter's relationship with a hammer.
（3）Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O'Keeffe's paintings？

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A．Her life in the countryside.
B．Her life in the West.
C．The works of European artists.
D．The appearance of the natural landscape.
（4）The main idea of this passage is that

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A．O'Keeffe was a different modern American painter
B．O'Keeffe was the best painter of her generation
C．O'Keeffe liked to paint what was familiar to her
D．O'Keeffe used colours and shapes that are too simple