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1 .?? 第三册 ?U4 1. His parents did not approve of his plan to go and?? study abroad with a girl they had never met, but he went? ahead and got to New York with her. ?2. It is said that the painter used his aunt as the model in the painting? whose face represented suffering yet strength. ?3. The real Ken did not like the three-dimensional Barbie dolls, which were described as having the appearance of “a woman who sold sex”. ?4. The novelist instantly rose to fame in 1950 with the publication of Good- bye, My Dear, a novel inspired by his experience with a girl on his older brother’s farm. 5. After the war, a character called Uncle Sam began appearing in political cartoons, and soon became American’s most popular symbol. 6. The painting shows a serious-looking man and a woman standing alongside him in front of a farmhouse, their models being respectively the painter’s dentist and sister. 7. In order to have the buffalo on the other side of the nickel, he went to the Central Park Zoo to sketch an aging buffalo which was later killed for a wall decoration. 8. One story says that “US” was short for “Uncle Sam” whose real name was Sam Wilson who had once worked with a man who had signed a contract with the government to provide meat to the US Army. 1.19世纪70年代中期，法国艺术家弗里德里克—奥古斯特—巴托尔迪正在设计一个大项目，名为“自由照耀世界”。这是一座庆祝美国独立和美法联盟的纪念碑。 2. 马特尔公司将这个娃娃作了一番改造，变成了体面而地道的美国货，尽管胸围有些夸张。它名从当时10多岁的少女芭芭拉。 3. 如今芭芭拉已有60多岁了，她拒绝接受采访，但据说非常喜欢芭比。她可能是当今世上真名实姓不为人知的最著名的人物。 4. 1930年，格兰特— 伍德因其画作《美国哥特式》一举成名。此画体现了美国农民庄严的自豪，常常被人临摹。 5. 他深受中世纪艺术的影响，他的灵感来自于一所古老农舍的哥特式窗户，但最令世人注目的是画中人物的脸。 6. 但1913至1938年间发行的野牛硬币，却是为了纪念由美国拓居引起的两起相互关联的悲剧——野牛群的灭绝和美洲印第安人的毁灭。 7. 尽管此前一直是白人被用作美国硬币上的模特，而著名艺术家詹姆斯 — 厄尔— 弗雷泽却反传统而行之，启用了三名真正的美洲印第安人作为自己创作的原型。 8. 战后，政治漫画里开始出现了一个名叫“山姆大叔”的人物。他的原型是一个早期漫画人物名叫乔纳森大哥，此人在美国独立战争时期非常出名。 U5 1. Mrs. Clark lies in bed motionless, and I wonder briefly if she is still alive. 2. In the final phase of his journey, the traveler in the desert depended on chewing tree leaves to ease his thirst. 3. These soldiers have rece