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7.Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful,there's a natural impulse to catch and own it-which means,in this day and age,that we can't help reaching for our phones to take a picture when seeing beautiful things.Though this would seem to be a wonderful solution,there are two big problems about taking pictures.Firstly,we're likely to be so busy taking the pictures that we forget to look at the world whose beauty and interest inspire us to take a photograph in the first place.And secondly,because we feel the pictures are safely stored in our phones,we never get around to look at them.
These problems would seem to be very much of today,a consequence of the tiny phones in our pockets.But they were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography,when the average camera was the size of a grandfather clock.The first person who noticed them was the English art critic,John Ruskin.He was a travelling lover who realized that most tourists failed to notice or remember the beautiful things they saw.
He argued that humans have a born tendency(倾向)to respond to beauty and desire to keep it,but that there are bad expressions of this desire.At worst,we get into buying souvenirs or taking photographs.But,in Ruskin's eyes,there's one thing we should do and that is attempting to draw the interesting things we see,and it doesn't matter whether we happen to have any talent for doing so.
Before the invention of photography,people used to draw far more than they do today.It was an active necessity.But in the mid-19th century,photography killed drawing.It became something only"artists"would ever do,so Ruskin spent four years on a campaign to get people drawing again.
So if drawing had value even when it was practiced by people with no talent,it was for Ruskin because drawing can teach us to notice properly rather than watch absent-mindedly(心不在焉地).When describing what lies before our eyes with our own hands,we naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a loose way to one where we acquire a deep understanding of its parts.
32.What does the underlined word"impulse"mean?B
A.Interest.B.Urge.C.Habit.D.Reaction.
33.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?C
A.An effective solution to storing something nice.
B.Reasons for taking pictures in the first place.
C.Problems related with taking photos.
D.Methods of storing pictures in phones.
34.It can be inferred that John RuskinA.
A.lived at the origin of photography
B.lived at the origin of drawing
C.studied the history of photography
D.was an English literature critic
35.How did John Ruskin advise us to remember our travel?D
A.By taking photographs.
B.By buying meaningful souvenirs.
C.By writing some travel notes.
D.By trying drawing what we see.
分析 本文讲述了摄影的魅力,以及摄影会遇到的一些问题及其解决方法.
解答 32-35 BCAD
32.B 考查词意猜测.根据常理,人们无论何时看到美丽的东西,都会有去捕捉它的冲动.所以该词的意思是"冲动".故选B.
33.C 考查段落大意.根据"Though this would seem to be a wonderful solution,there are two big problems about taking pictures"可知,第二段讲述的是与拍照相关的问题.故选C.
34.A 考查细节理解.根据"But they were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography,when the average camera was the size of a grandfather clock",可以推断出John Ruskin生活在摄影世家,从他的爷爷开始就是摄影师.
35.D 考查细节理解.根据"When describing what lies before our eyes with our own hands"可知,这里建议我们试着画出我们所看到的事物.故选D.
点评 阅读理解考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.
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