Question

【題目】閱讀理解
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 is another unchanging element (元素) of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17thcentury Dutch painters to the 19thcentury romanticists (浪漫主義藝術(shù)家 ) and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas 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, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotions and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography to help both the eyes and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.
Besides, all art begs the ageold 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 CroMagnon 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）The underlined word “poetry” most probably means ________.
A.an object for artistic creation
B.a collection of poems
C.an unusual quality
D.a natural scene
（2）Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because ________.
A.they are close in style to works in ancient times
B.they look like works by 19thcentury painters
C.they draw attention to common things in life
D.they depend heavily on color photography
（3）What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?
A.They express people's curiosity about the past.
B.They make people interested in everyday experience.
C.They are considered important for variety in form.
D.They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.
（4）Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A.History of the arts.
B.Basic questions of the arts.
C.New developments in the arts.
D.Use of modern technology in the arts.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）C
（2）C
（3）D
（4）B
【解析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，縱觀藝術(shù)的歷史，有創(chuàng)造力的特質(zhì)是藝術(shù)家作品得以長(zhǎng)青的重要因素。不管他們選擇什么主題，藝術(shù)家總能給人以新的力量，新的形式讓人們看到并感受到以前從未經(jīng)歷過的詩(shī)一般的藝術(shù)。
（1）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)前文”No matter what objects they select，artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change...“可知，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)的是與以前不同的東西，故選C項(xiàng)。
（2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的”Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotions and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. “可知，萊斯里描繪那些他所看到的。在他的作品中，情感上沒有特別的變化，他涉足那些像是以高速公路為背景的普通的事物。故選C項(xiàng)。
（3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的”Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.“可知，多樣性和不同性都是藝術(shù)的不同層面，他們一起表達(dá)了人們的希望和基本的需求。故選D項(xiàng)。
（4）考查主旨大意。各段分別分析不同歷史時(shí)期的作品主題、對(duì)現(xiàn)實(shí)的不同理解、不同的藝術(shù)風(fēng)格等，故選B項(xiàng)。