题目内容：

Do you know sand has been used to draw pictures since ancient times? Today, sandpainting, an interesting art, will be produced to you.

    Sandpainting is an art of using the sand to make a fixed or unfixed painting. Maybe we all played fixed sandpainting as we were young. We first painted a simple picture, then we brushed glue(胶水)to the section, and at last we poured colored sand onto the glue in order to make it fixed.

Unfixed sandpaintings have a long cultural history around the world. People poured sand on a surface to make paintings or use some tools to draw pictures in the sand directly. They are often temporary(临时的). Different people draw sandpaintings to express different meanings: love of nature, admiration for God or love of beauty.

Nowadays, sandpainting becomes a performance art and its popularity has risen. On the stages, sandpainting performers make a series of images(图像)by drawing lines and figures in the sand with their fingers and hands. The series of images are used to tell a story.

Kseniya Simonova, who is from Ukraine, is one of the greatest sandpainting performers in the world. People call her “The Lady of the Sand”.

Simonova said that she never dreamed she’d become a sand artist, and when she began practicing, she nearly gave it up. But she persevered, caring for a household and her baby by day and training every night. You Are Always Nearby is one of the most famous performances of Simonoova. It is a story about a young couple separated by a war in which the solider is tragically killed, but returns in spirit to watch over his wife and child. This performance makes all audience cry.

Art is everywhere and is not far away from common people. Art of painting is in our life, even in the sand.

1.Which of the following is necessary to make a fixed sandpainting?

A. Glue    B. A printed picture

C. Colored paper    D. Water

2.What do we know about Simonva?

A. She is the best painter in the world

B. Being a sand artist is her biggest dream

C. She once gave up performing for her family

D. Her performances are popular with people

3.What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A. How sandpainting is becoming popular

B. Why sandpainting is becoming popular

C. How an image is created in the sand

D. What sandpainting tries to express

4.The underlined word “persevered” can be replaced by _______.

A. set off    B. gave out

C. held on    D. ended up