1、1) In a mental asylum.2) He was a member of a committee which went there to show concern for the pertinents there.3) They were cants behaving like humans.4) He was injured in a bus accident and became mentally ill.5) He spent the rest of his life in comfort.B.painter, birds, animals, cats, wide, pub
2、lished, encouragement, A year or two, The Illustrated London News, cats Christmas party, a hundred and fifty, world famous【原文】Dan Rider, a bookseller who loved good causes, was a member of a committee that visited mental asylums. On one visit he noticed a patient, a quiet little man, drawing cats. R
3、ider looked at the drawings and gasped.Good lord, man, he exclaimed. You draw like Louis Wain!I am Louis Wain, said the artist.Most people today have never heard of Louis Wain. But, when Rider found him in 1925, he was a household name.He made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society,
4、 a whole cat world, said H. G. Wells in a broadcast appeal a month or two later. British cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.Before Louis Wain began drawing them, cats were kept strictly in the kitchen if they were kept at all. They were useful for catching
5、mice and perhaps for keeping the maidservant company. Anyone else who felt affection for cats usually kept quiet about it. If a man admitted that he liked cats, he would be laughed at. The dog was the only domestic animal that could be called a friend.Louis Wain studied art as a youth and became qui
6、te a successful newspaper and magazine artist. He specialized in birds and animals, including dogs, but never drew a cat till his wife was dying. They had not been married long, and during her illness a black-and-white cat called Peter used to sit on her bed. To amuse his wife, Louis Wain used to sk
7、etch and caricature the cat while he sat by her bedside. She urged him to show these-drawings to editors, fie was unconvinced, but wanted to humour her.The first editor he approached shared his lack of enthusiasm. Whoever would want to see a picture of a cat? he asked, and Louis Wain put the drawing
8、s away. A year or two later he showed them to the editor of The Illustrated London News, who suggested a picture of a cats Christmas party across two full pages. Using his old sketches of Peter, Louis Wain produced a picture containing about a hundred and fifty cats, each one different from the rest
9、. It took him a few days to draw, and it made him world famous.For the next twenty-eight years he drew nothing but cats. He filled his house with them, and sketched them in all their moods. There was nothing subtle about his work. Its humour simply lay in showing cats performing human activities; th
10、ey followed every new fashion from sea bathing to motoring. He was recognized, somewhat flatteringly, as the leading authority on the feline species. He became President of the National Cat Club and was eagerly sought after as a judge at cat shows.Louis Wains career ended abruptly in 1914, when he w
11、as seriously injured in a bus accident and became mentally ill. Finally, he was certified insane and put in an asylum for paupers. After Dan Rider found him, appeals were launched and exhibitions of his work arranged, and he spent the rest of his life in comfort. He continued to draw cats, but they
12、became increasingly strange as his mental illness progressed. Psychiatrists found them more fascinating than anything he had done when he was sane.Task 21) Because he was always trying new things and new ways of doing things just like a young painter.2) It didnt look like her.3) It was the only pict
13、ure she knew that showed her as she really was.4) People from the poorer parts of Paris, who were thin, hungry, tired, and sick.B. 1) F 2) T 3) F 4) TC. 1881, 1973, Malaga, Spain, ninety-one yearsD. fifteen, nineteen, twenty-three, colors, darker, change, soft-colored, strange, shape, human face and
14、 figure, strangePablo Picasso was born in 1881. So probably you are wondering why we call him the youngest painter in the world. When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old. But even at that age, he was still painting like a young painter.For that reason, we have called him the youngest painte
15、r. Young people are always trying new things and new ways of doing things. They welcome new ideas. They are restless and are never satisfied. They seek perfection. Older people often fear change. They know what they can do best, riley prefer to repeat their successes, rather than risk failure. They
16、have found their own place in life and dont like to leave it. We know what to expect from them.When he was over ninety, this great Spanish painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and for new ways to use his artistic materials.Picassos figures sometimes face two ways at once, with the eyes and nose in strange plac
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