二、完形填空
Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840, but moved to the port city of Le Havre as a little boy. He showed great
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for art from a very young age. Monet studied at an art school
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the age of 11. Over the next few years, he met Eugène Boudin, a French
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who was famous for his seascapes (海景画). Boudin taught him how to use oil paints. Monet’s mother supported him in becoming an artist.
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, his father did not and wanted him to take over the family’s small business instead.
Monet’s mother died in 1857, and later he moved to Paris to study art. In 1861, he joined the French army, but about one year later, he
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home because of illness. Monet met Renoir and Sisley in Paris in 1862; their
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experiments helped lay the foundations of “Impressionism (印象主义)”.
Monet kept perfecting his
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. He used different colours and brushstrokes. His paintings started to become
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and people began to buy them. He often painted the same scene at different times. One such scene was a large pond at his home in Giverny. Monet spent hours
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the water lilies (睡莲), the bridge and the sunset.
Towards the end of his life, Monet began to
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poor eyesight and lung cancer, and he passed away on 5 December 1926.
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