二、阅读理解(11-30)

Throughout the history of thearts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects theyselect, 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 elementof art.It can be found from ancient times through the17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impres-sionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists,continued this practice.Leslie sought out the sameplace where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had pro-duced paintings of the samescene a century and a half before.Unlike Cole whoinsists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature,Ledge paints what he actually sees.In his paintings,there is no particular change in motion, and he includes ordinary things likethe highway in the background.He also takes advantageof the latest develop-ments of color photography (摄影术)to help both the eye and the memory when he im-proves his painting back in hisworkroom.

Besides, all art begs theage-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown theirunderstanding of reality in one form or another.The impressionists saw re-ality in briefemotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and theCro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in theancient for-ests.To sum up, understanding reality is anecessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years thefunction of the arts has remained relatively constant.

Past or present, Eastern orWestern, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experi-ence.Many and different are the facesof art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

11.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

答案：C

12.Leslie's paintings areextraordinary because __________.

A.they are close in style to works in ancienttimes

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

答案：C

13.What is the author's opinion ofartistic 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.

答案：B

14.What does the author suggestabout the arts in the last paragraph?

A.They express people's curiosity about the past.

B.They make people interested in everydayexperience.

C.They are considered important for variety inform.

D.They are regarded as a mirror of the humansituation.

答案：D

15.Which of the following is themain 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.

答案：B

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