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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Australian artist Margaret Preston Margaret Preston’s vibrant paintings and prints of Australian flowers, animals and landscapes have delighted the Australian public since the early 1920s. Margaret Preston was born Margaret Rose McPherson in Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1875, the daughter of David McPherson, a Scottish marine engineer and his wife Prudence Lyle. She and her sister were sent at first to a private school, but when family circumstances changed, her mother took the girls to Sydney where Margaret attended a public high school. She decided early in life to become an artist and took private art lessons. In 1888, she trained for several months with Sydney landscape painter William Lister, and in 1893 enrolled at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, where she studied for just over four years. In 1898, after her father died, Margaret returned to Adelaide to study and then teach at the Adelaide School of Design. Her early artwork was influenced by the German aesthetic tradition, in which subjects of the natural world were depicted in a true-to-life manner. Margaret’s first visit to Europe in 1904, and her studies in Paris, France had little impact on this naturalism that dominated her work from this early period. However, some eight years later, after returning to Paris, she began to recognise the decorative possibilities of art. With the outbreak of the First World War, Margaret travelled to England, where she had exhibitions and continued her studies of art. She was a student of pottery, but at some time developed her interest in various techniques of printmaking and design. In England’s West Country, she taught basket weaving at a rehabilitation unit for servicemen. It was on board【缺少答案,请补充】