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摘要： The text mainly discusses . A. the development of art history B. what can we learn from art C. the influence of art on art history D. the difference between general history and art history B Think of some of your favorite singers. When you listen, they can make you happy or sad, peaceful or angry. They can make you relax or want to get up and dance. Gifted singers have the power to affect us in many ways - emotionally, physically and mentally. But becoming a great singer isn’t as easy as listening to one. It takes practice, devotion and strong lungs! Just ask the well-known American opera star Carol Vaness. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she often sings, Carol’s voice must be loud enough to be heard by four thousand people. It must reach every person in the theater, without a microphone, even when she’s singing softly. The reason Carol can project her voice that far is the way she breathes. “When you breathe, it’s like a swimmer taking a deep breath before going underwater, Carol explains. “You have to take a lot of air into your lungs. According to Carol, the main difference between pop singing and opera is “how you breathe, how much air you take in, and how you control it coming out. Regular singing is more like speaking, and it’s a lot softer. When I sing for children, they’re often surprised by how the vibrationsstrike their ears - like waves on a beach, Carol says. “In opera, the air doesn’t just go out of your mouth - it vibrates in your chest, the way a guitar vibrates when it’s played. Ever since she started piano lessons at the age of ten, Carol has loved music. As she got older, she decided to become a music teacher. When she went to college, she took singing lessons as part of her studies. Her voice teacher discovered that nineteen-year-old Carol had an exceptionally beautiful soprano voice – the highest singing voice for women. Carol decided to make opera her goal, not only because she loved to sing but also because she loved the drama. Opera is a play in which the characters sing the words instead of speaking them. The stories of opera can be tragic or comical. They can be personal stories about two people falling in love or grand stories about kings and queens who lived long ago. As the characters in an opera sing, the emotions expressed by words and music come to life. Today, Carol performs throughout the United States and Europe and she has sung for almost twenty years. But she has never forgotten where she started singing in the first palace. “Put your heart into your singing and enjoy it, says Carol, “because singing is a great joy. That’s why I sing. In fact, that’s why everybody sings.

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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. In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books.

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 personal emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Franciso 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 abuse of power over people.

In the same way, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art had been almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that described people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand the Bible stories in the pictures on church walls. 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.

1．We learn from the first paragraph that .

A．history class concentrates on religious beliefs and emotion

B．history books focus on personal emotions and opinions

C．art history shows us something about emotions and beliefs

D．art history shows us nothing but the political values

2．According to the passage, it is true that .

A．history teachers must be quite subjective

B．artists paint people from the Bible to show their political beliefs

C．you can hardly find animal and human images in Islamic paintings

D．painters in Europe only painted Bible stories for centuries

3．Francisco Goya and his painting are used as an example to show .

A．art is subjective, which is different from history books

B．Spanish government abused its power over people

C．in history books, facts about politics are given

D．Francisco Goya was the first“political” artist

4．The text mainly discusses .

A．the development of art history

B．what can we learn from art

C．the influence of art history

D．the difference between general history and art history

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