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 (风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the17th-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 ThomasCole, 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 emotion, 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 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.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 19th-century painters

C. they draw attention to common things in life

D. they depend heavily on color photography

3.What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?

A. It will not be found in future works of art.

B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D. It is lacking in modern works of art.

4. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A. History of the arts.

B. Use of modern technology in the arts.

C. New developments in the arts.

D. Basic questions of the arts.

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.B

4.D

【解析】

试题分析：本文是记叙文，记叙随着时间的推移作者对母亲所使用的语言的不同看法。

1.C 词义猜测题。根据第一段最后一句 “-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.”创造没有人见到过或经历过的意境。既然是没有见过的，那就是不寻常的。故答案选C。

2.C 推理判断题 根据第二段第五、六句“Leslie 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. ”。可见Leslie 画的都是普通的，见过的事物。Ordinary与common是近义词。故答案选C。

3.B 推理判断题。根据第三段第二句“Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.每一代艺术家对现实的理解都不一样。也就是没有即定的标准。故选B。

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【名师点睛】

【名师点睛】

词义猜测题。此类题型有逐渐增加的趋势，尤其是猜测词组、句义题。命题者着重考查考生利用同义或反义关系、构词法、语法和语篇文脉等理解生词的能力。联系主旨、整合上下文信息是解答这类题的关键。要求猜测词义的词一般为实词及其词组，通过递进关系（and, or）、同位或解释关系（that is）、构词、定义、对比（but, however）、因果、联想、上下文，举例（such as, for example）等线索确定词义的具体内容。比如第32题猜测“poetry”就利用了定义，上下文的方法。第一段最后一句 “-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.”中“where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.”修饰先行词poetry,构成修饰的关系。

考点：考查说明文的阅读