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王老师的话:许多伟大的人,都因为他们节制自己, 集中力量在特定的事物上,而有杰出的成就. 如果这些阅读题是认真完成的,并做好每一篇笔记积累,你会发现你的水平有突飞猛进的飞跃. 5.15-5.21 一周阅读 第一天 Claude Monet(莫奈) Claude Monet was born in 1840 in Paris, France. When he was five, his family moved to a place on the coast where he spent a lot of time on the beaches. It was here that he started to understand 36 . As a boy he 37 friends and family by drawing caricatures(漫画).They were all pleased with his paintings. But at 18 his way of painting changed when he 38 friends with Eugene Boudin who encouraged him to paint pictures out of doors. This is when his life as a 39 began. His family was 40 that he refused to go to art school. Instead Monet worked with other artists in their workrooms in Paris. In 1862 he became part of a group of impressionist(印象主义的) painters. During the 1860s he sold almost 41 paintings but this didn’t stop him painting even though he always had problems with money. Monet married his first wife in 1870 and had two sons. His second wife Alice, who had six children with her, lived with Monet and Monet’s children. After 42 houses several times, Monet found a house to rent(租) for his large family in a small village called Giverny in 1883, about 84 kilometers from Paris. He fell in love 43 the place and it became his home for the rest of his life. At last Monet began to 44 his paintings and in 1890 he bought the house at Giverny. Monet was a loving gardener and created beautiful gardens there. His gardens inspired over 500 of his greatest paintings. Monet’s large paintings of the water lilies in his water garden, painted between 1916 and 1926, are some of his most famous. Monet gave these paintings to the people of 45 . You can see them in Paris. Towards the end of his life, Monet started to lose his 46 . This was the worst thing that could happen to a painter. It happened slowly over 16 years and by 1923 he was nearly blind. 47 Monet was v