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When the
Apollo astronauts(宇航员) landed
on the Moon in 1969, millions of people were rather sad. The person to blame
for this was an artist named Chesley Bonestell.For many years, Bonestell had
been creating beautifully detailed paintings of the Moon and planets. Viewers
of his artwork were unhappy because the real Moon did not look like Bonestell's
pictures of it.
As a space
artist, Bonestell tried to make his drawings look exciting and as true as the
Moon is. He worked closely with astronomers and scientists to get the most
up-to-date scientific information available. But in the 1940s and 1950s, no one
had ever seen another planet up close. Yet Bonestell's paintings looked so real
that some people thought they were photographs.
Even
though Bonestell was interested in astronomy, he did not start out as a space
artist. As a young man he studied architecture—the art and science of designing
and making buildings .In 1938, Bonestell became a special effects artist in
Hollywood. It was here that he learned he could improve his paintings by
following the methods used in the movies.
In 1944, a
popular magazine published a series of Bonestell's paintings of the planet
Saturn. He drew Saturn as if it were seen by someone standing on each of the
planet's moons. The results were dazzling. Within a few years, Bonestell's
artwork was appearing regularly in magazines and books on astronomy and space
flight.
Many of
Bonestell's artworks had been right all along. But the biggest surprise was the
Moon. Someone asked Bonestell what he was thinking when he saw the first
pictures from the Moon. "I thought how wrong I was!" he said.
"My mountains were sharp, and they aren't on the Moon."
But he
shouldn't have felt bad. No space artist had ever before taken so many people
to so many faraway worlds. In the years just before the first manned space
flights, Bonestell's artwork prepared people for the amazing space adventure to
come.
(1)
Bonestell made his space drawings__________.
A . from a very early age
B . by copying photographs
C . with the help of scientists
D . in order to make a living
(2)
The underlined word "dazzling" in Paragraph 4 can best be replaced by " ".
A . doubtful
B . worrying
C . terrible
D . wonderful
(3)
Bonestell's success lay in the fact that__________.
A . he created a new drawing skill
B . he helped finish the first space flight
C . he made space travel more popular
D . he helped bring space closer to people
(4)
What would be the best title for the text?
A . The First Men on the Moon
B . The Space Art of Chesley Bonestell
C . The Journeys of the Apollo Astronauts
D . Spacewalking:Through an Astronaut's Eyes
答案: C
D
D
B