2016年新SAT样题——Writing and Language部分.docx

2016年新SAT样题——Writing and Language部分
2016年新SAT样题——Writing and Language部分
Questions 1-7 are based on the following passage.
Dong Kingman: Painter of Cities
A 1954 documentary about renowned watercolor painter Dong Kingman shows the artist sitting on a stool on Mott Street in New York City’s Chinatown. A crowd of admiring spectators watches as Kingman squeezes dollops of paint from several tubes into a tin watercolor ①box, from just a few primary colors, Kingman creates dozens of beautiful hues as he layers the translucent paint onto the paper on his easel. Each stroke of the brush and dab of the sponge transforms thinly sketched outlines into buildings, shop signs, and streetlamps. The street scene Kingman posing in this short film is very much in keeping with the urban landscapes for which he is best known.
[1] Kingman was keenly interested in landscape painting from an early age. [2] In Hong Kong, where pleted his schooling, teachers at that time customarily assigned students a formal “school name.”[3] His interest was so keen, in fact, that he was named after it. [4] The young boy who had been called Dong Moy Shu became Dong Kingman. [5] The name Kingman was selected for its two ②parts, “king” and “man”; Cantonese for “scenery” and “composition.”[6] As Kingman developed as a painter, his works were pared to ③paintings by Chinese landscape artists dating back to CE 960