Whitney Houston, a famous American singer, has sung a popular Olympic song named ______.
As early as 1907, Whitney organized an exhibition of contemporary art in the United States for the Colony Club, a women's club in New York City of which she was a founding member. The following year she purchased four of the seven paintings sold from the landmark exhibition of "The Eight" at the Macbeth Galleries. She contributed funds to the Armory Show of 1913, and for many years paid her deficit of the society of Independent Artists, founded in 1917.
In 1914, Whitney converted a townhouse into a small gallery known as the Whitney Studio, which featured regular exhibitions of the work of artists from the United States. In 1918, she established the Whitney Studio Club: any artist introduced by a member could join the club, where annual exhibitions gave members a rare opportunity to present their works to the public without first submitting them to a jury.
She aided artists in numerous other ways--sending them abroad to study, paying their hospital bills and studio rents, and most important, purchasing their works.
By 1929, Whitney owned more than five hundred works by artists from the United States, and she felt the public should have an opportunity to see the collection. That year she offered the collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, whose director refused her offer before she even had a chance to express her intention to build and endow a Whitney wing. This abrupt rejection only served to challenge Whitney, who announced in January 1930 that she would establish her own museum with a new and dramatically different mandate--to support artists from the United States.
What is the main topic of the passage?
A.Art movements in the twentieth century.
B.The hardship of twentieth-century artists in the United States.
C.The commitment of Whitney to artists from the United States.
D.The art collections at two different museums.
A.The first paragraph.
B.The second paragraph.
C.The third paragraph.
D.The fifth paragraph.
A.Building homes for them in New York.
B.Helping with medical costs.
C.Providing areas where their art could be displayed
D.Paying for their study in foreign countries.
What can you infer from the passage?
A.Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was a generous woman.
B.Sometimes disagreement can really challenge people and made them successful.
C.Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was a painter herself.
D.An artist cannot be always dependant on himself or herself financially.
According to the passage, how was the Whitney Studio Club unusual?
A.It featured the works of foreign artists.
B.Membership was exclusive.
C.It was easy for artists to display their work.
D.The exhibitions were open to the public.
Houston grows larger because of ______.
A.traffic
B.oil
C.a good harbor
D.B and C
What has been the result of the merit pay program in Florida and Houston?
A.It has improved the quality of instruction.
B.It has provided more professional trainings.
C.It has had an positive effect on education.
D.It has turned out to be a failure.
The 850 British Airways ______flew from Houston to London at its usual time.
A.fly
B.aircraft
C.plane
D.flight