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题型组合练(六)(对应学生用书第179页)Ⅰ.阅读理解A(文化教育)　【导学号(2017·南京、盐城高三二模)Grant Woods ve stopped to wonder at the real meaning behind it.We all know it：a serious-looking couple in front of their gothic-arched wooden house—in a style called Carpenters Gothicred to paint realistic scenes of rural America during the Depression in a style that became known as Regionalism. The couple are identified either as a farmer and his wife，or as a daughter with her unsmiling and overprotective father.Woods sister，Nan，who posed for the picture，always insisted the two were father and daughter，perhaps finding the age gap too improper.The relationship has always remained interestingly conflicting. Unlike her elder companions fixed stare，the woman glances off to the side.Her expression is actually difficult to determine.She looks sorrowful，or perhaps uncomfortable，though her straitlaced primness(拘谨保守的古板)is weakened by an escaping coil of hair at the back of her neck.As if holding guard against those anticipated intruders(侵入者)—probably－ the man holds a pitchfork in a soldier-like fashion.And that is what lends the work its uneasy(不协调的)comedy.Everything about it is an artful setup.all，Nan never actually posed with the man in the picture，nor are they in any way related.Wood had spotted the house during a drive to the town of Eldon in Iowa.It immediately gave him an idea.“That idea was to find two people who，by their straitlaced characters，would be suitable for such a home，” he later explained.The couple were actually painted separately，and neither sitter was painted in front of the house.The farmer，as you might have already guessed，isnt actually a farmer，but a certain Dr Bryon McKeeby，a wealthy dentist from Cedar Rapids，where Wood lived with his mother and sister.The couples clothing too has been carefully handpicked by the artist. In addition，both their faces，Nans in particular，have been thinned and lengthened，as have the famous gothic window and roof.And，if you look carefully，you might even dete