G. How to get to your college is a problem.
第二节 完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
I haven't stopped thinking about 94-year-old Carmen Herrera ever since I read about her in The New York Times. Her story is such a (n) ___21___ that I feel I need to write about it here.
The story ___22___ that Carmen has a deep love for painting. It was a compulsion(难以抗拒的冲动), something she simply ___23___ stop doing. She started painting back in the 1930s, ___24___ she was in her 20s. Her paintings ___25___ mostly on geometrical(几何的)shapes and lines, forms and colors, and were considered "ahead of her time".
Carmen was born in Cuba, lived in New York and Paris and eventually ___26___ New York where she lived till now. Through the years, she worked quietly and ___27___ a huge quantity of paintings, but it was many, many years ___28___, at the age of 89, that she sold her very first painting. Today, her art is ___29___ high demand and a recent painting ___30___ at $44,000!
Now, at the age of 94, she ___31___ a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Walker Art Center. The New York Times story ___32___ several people who spoke about her late-life success:
"To reach ___33___ glory at 94 --- whatever Carmen Herrear's ___34___ rise might say about the difficulties of being a woman ___35___, it is clearly a story of personal strength," Mr. Zugazagoitia said.
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