Question

【題目】Painting

The art of creating pictures using colors, shapes and lines is called painting. Museums and galleries show the paintings of professional (專業(yè)的) artists. But painting is also a popular form of entertainment and creative expression.

【1】. Experienced painters usually use a brush to apply oil paints to a canvas cloth surface. Young painters usually use watercolors on pieces of paper. Very young children may use finger paints to create paintings.

Painters can use their art to express devotion to a religion, to tell a story, to express feelings and ideas, or simply to present a pleasing picture. Religious paintings often show a god or a scene from a sacred text (圣典). Other common subjects have been famous legends and events in history, as well as scenes from daily life. Artists also paint portraits (畫(huà)像), or pictures of people.【2】. All of these types of paintings show the human figure in some way.

Some kinds of paintings do not focus on people. In landscape (風(fēng)景) painting the focus is on scenes from nature. Artists also paint still objects such as fruits and vegetables.【3】. Some artists communicate their ideas through pictures that do not represent any object.

【4】. Paintings dating back 15,000 years have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain.【5】 Samples of painted pottery (陶器) from at least 5,000 years ago have been found in China and Iran. The ancient Egyptians decorated their temples with beautiful paintings. People in ancient Greece painted decorative objects such as vases in addition to the walls of temples.

A. These works are called still-life paintings.

B. These works can communicate a special feeling.

C. Humans have been making paintings for thousands of years.

D. People of all ages create pictures using a variety of materials.

E. Cave paintings generally show animals that early humans hunted.

F. The design of a painting is the plan of its lines, shapes and colors.

G. Sometimes artists make portraits of themselves, which are called self-portraits.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】G

【3】A

【4】C

【5】E

【解析】本文主要講了繪畫(huà)被各個(gè)階層的人所喜愛(ài)以及繪畫(huà)的的發(fā)展歷史。

【1】語(yǔ)義理解題。Experienced painters usually use a brush to apply oil paints to a canvas cloth surface. Young painters usually use watercolors on pieces of paper. Very young children may use finger paints to create paintings.這里講了不同繪畫(huà)水平的人使用不同的繪畫(huà)工具畫(huà)畫(huà)，故選D，D正是對(duì)下文內(nèi)容的總結(jié)。

【2】語(yǔ)義理解題。上文內(nèi)容Religious paintings often show a god or a scene from a sacred text (圣典). Other common subjects have been famous legends and events in history, as well as scenes from daily life. Artists also paint portraits (畫(huà)像), or pictures of people.介紹了各種風(fēng)格的繪畫(huà)，下文內(nèi)容All of these types of paintings show the human figure in some way.抓住關(guān)鍵詞All of these types of paintings，可知這里應(yīng)該填一種繪畫(huà)風(fēng)格，故選G。（有時(shí)候藝術(shù)家畫(huà)自己的肖像，這被稱為自畫(huà)像。）

【3】語(yǔ)義理解題。在上句Artists also paint still objects such as fruits and vegetables.捕捉到關(guān)鍵詞still objects靜止的事物，與A選項(xiàng)中的still-life相呼應(yīng)，故選A。

【4】語(yǔ)義理解題。下文內(nèi)容Paintings dating back 15,000 years have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain.提到繪畫(huà)追溯到15,000年以前，所以上文會(huì)說(shuō)人類繪畫(huà)已經(jīng)有幾千年的歷史，選C。

【5】語(yǔ)義理解題。在上文內(nèi)容Paintings dating back 15,000 years have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain.中捕捉到關(guān)鍵詞caves，并且這句話的意思是繪畫(huà)追溯到15,000年以前巖洞墻上的繪畫(huà)，所以接下來(lái)會(huì)談?wù)摱囱ɡL畫(huà)的繪畫(huà)內(nèi)容，故選E。