Question

Throughout the history of the arts,the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects they select,artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.
Landscape(風(fēng)景) is another unchanging element of art.It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie,one of the new American realists,continued this practice.Leslie sought out the same place where Toomas Cole,a romanticist,had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before.Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature,Lealie paints what he actually sees.In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(攝影術(shù)) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.
Besides,all art begs the age-old question:What is real?Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects,the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes,and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient Forests.To sum up,understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.
Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant.Past or present,Eastern or Western,the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience.Many and different are the faces of art,and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

1. 1.
   The underlined word “poetry” most probably means______.
   1. A.
      an object for artistic creation
   2. B.
      a collection of poems
   3. C.
      an unusual quality
   4. D.
      a natural scene
2. 2.
   Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because______.
   1. A.
      they are close in style to works in ancient times
   2. B.
      they look like works by 19th-century painters
   3. C.
      they draw attention to common things in life
   4. D.
      they depend heavily on color photography
3. 3.
   What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?
   1. A.
      It will not be found in future works of art.
   2. B.
      It does not have a long-lasting standard.
   3. C.
      It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.
   4. D.
      It is lacking in modern words of art.
4. 4.
   What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?
   1. A.
      They express people’s curiosity about the past.
   2. B.
      They make people interested in everyday experience.
   3. C.
      They are considered important for variety in form.
   4. D.
      They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.
5. 5.
   Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
   1. A.
      History of the arts.
   2. B.
      Basic questions of the arts.
   3. C.
      New developments in the arts.
   4. D.
      Use of modern technology in the arts.

Answer 1

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1.這是一道詞義猜測(cè)題。從第一段“to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before”可知藝術(shù)家力圖創(chuàng)造一種從來(lái)沒(méi)人看到或者經(jīng)歷過(guò)的意境。既然是沒(méi)有人看到過(guò)或者經(jīng)歷過(guò),那么應(yīng)該是一種不平常的東西。
2.這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)第二段“In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.”可以推斷出Leslie的畫(huà)表現(xiàn)的都是平時(shí)常見(jiàn)的事物。
3.這是一道推斷題。根據(jù)第三段“Each generations of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.”可以推斷出每一代藝術(shù)家對(duì)于現(xiàn)實(shí)的理解和表現(xiàn)都是不同的,也就是沒(méi)有一個(gè)永恒的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
4.這是一道歸納題。根據(jù)最后一段“Many and different are the faces of art,and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.”可知雖然藝術(shù)的表現(xiàn)形式不同,但都是表達(dá)了人民的需要和希望。也就是說(shuō)藝術(shù)反映了當(dāng)時(shí)人的生存狀態(tài)。
5.這是一道主旨題。本文通過(guò)對(duì)于不同時(shí)期藝術(shù)家的比較,作者分析了藝術(shù)的一個(gè)共同問(wèn)題:“什么是真實(shí)”,結(jié)論是雖然不同時(shí)期和地域藝術(shù)的表現(xiàn)形式不同,但都反映了當(dāng)時(shí)人的生存狀態(tài)。