I have always been interested in making things. When I was a child, I enjoyed painting, but I also liked malting things out of day. I won a prize for one of my paintings when I was fourteen.
That may be why I went to art school four years later. But I studied painting at first, not pottery. I like being a potter because I like to work with my hands and feel the clay.  I’m happy working by myself and being near my home.  I don’t like mass-produced things, for they are made by machines and are all the same. I think crafts(手工藝) are very important and crafts persons(手藝人)make things cleverly with hands. They make our lives colorful. When I left school, I got some money.  I hope to become a full-time craftswoman. This workplace is small, but I wish tot: move to a larger one next year.
1. The writer went to the art school at the age of___________
2. The writer is talking about her workplace_____________
A. unhappily          B. hopefully
C. seriously          D. angrily
3. From the passage we know that the writer prefers
A. a long way to work
B. group work
C. a small workplace
D. something different
4. What does "mass-produced" mean in Chinese?
5. From the passage we are sure that the writer is a  ________      (man/woman).
1. 18   2. B   3. D   4. 批量生產(chǎn)的   5. woman

1.從第一段的最后一句話： I won a prize for one of my paintings when I was fourteen. 和第二段的第一句That may be why I went to art school four years later.可知作者是18歲上藝術(shù)學(xué)校的。
2. 從第二段的句子：I hope to become a full-time craftswoman可知作者認(rèn)為很有希望。選.B   3. 從第二段的句子：I don’t like mass-produced things, for they are made by machines and are all the same. 可知作者喜歡不一樣的東西。選D。
4.猜詞題：從后面的 I don’t like mass-produced things, for they are made by machines and are all the same.可知是：批量生產(chǎn)的
5.從文章的句子：I hope to become a full-time craftswoman.可知作者是女性：woman
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