题目内容
12.A.Lack of stone images also reflects religious belief.B.Art is a good means to know about people's faith.
C.Artists express their feelings and opinions in their works.
D.People know more about our culture through learning art history.
E.Art is by all means closely connected with history.
F.Art history provides information of different places and people.
(71)D
A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes.Most typical history courses concentrate on politics,economics,and war.But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people,but also religious beliefs,emotions,and psychology.
(72)F
In addition,information about the daily activities of our ancestors-or of people very different from our own-can be provided by art.In short,art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place,and a study of it clearly offer us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books.
(73)C
In history books,objective information about the political life of a country is presented; that is,facts about politics are given,but opinions are not expressed.Art,on the other hand,is subjective:it reflects emotions and opinions.The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first truly"political"artist.In his well-known painting The Third of May 1808,he criticized the Spanish government for its misuse of power over people.Over a hundred years later,symbolic images were used in Pablo Picasso's Guernica to express the horror of war.Meanwhile,on another continent,the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera,Jose Clemente Orozco,and David Alfaro Siqueiros-as well as the works of Alfredo Ramos Martines-depicted (show or represent them in a work of art) these Mexican artists'deep anger and sadness about social problems.
(74)B
In the same way,art can reflect a culture's religious beliefs.For hundreds of years in Europe,religious art was almost the only type of art that existed.Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible.Although most people couldn't read,they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls.
(75)A
By contrast,one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images.This reflects the Islamic belief that statues are unholy.Something else can be more religiously symbolic in history.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了通过艺术学习可以让人们了解文化,因此我们要多学习艺术.
解答 71.D.推理判断题.D项的 People know more about our culture through learning art history.和这段的A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than it is possible to learn in general history classes.说明通过艺术学习人们了解了文化.故选D.
72.F.推理判断题.F项的Art history provides information of different places and people.和这段的句子:art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place,and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than what can be found in most history books.可知艺术提供人们不同的地点和人物的信息.故选F.
73.C.推理判断题.C项的 Artists express their feelings and opinions in their works.和这段的Art,on the other hand,is subjective:it reflects emotions and opinions.可知艺术表达的是人的情感和观点.故选C.
74.B.推理判断题.B项的 Art is a good means to know about people's faith.可知艺术是了解人们信仰的方式,和这段的:In the same way,art can reflect a culture's religious beliefs.一致,故选B.
75.A.推理判断题.A项的Lack of stone images also reflects religious belief.和这段的 By contrast,one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images.相符合,可知缺乏想象也反映的宗教信念;故选A.
点评 七选五阅读是完成性阅读,和完形填空很类似,不同的是一个选词,一个选句子.解题时,要注意上下文语境,充分考虑信息词(选项中和空格前后句子中相同或相近的词),选出最符合语境的句子.
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