74. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

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

B. They make people interested in everyday experience.

C. They are considered important for variety in form.

D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

73. What is the author's opinion of artistic 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.

72. Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because .

A. they are close in style to works in ancient times

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

71. 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

63. Which would be the best title for this passage?

　 A. We’re Alone on the Internet.

　 B. We’re Communicating on the Internet.

　 C. We’re Alone Together on the Internet.

　 D. We’re in the Imaginary World of the Internet.

答案　 60.D　 61.A　 62.C　 63.C

Passage 31

(07·重慶E篇)

Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, 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(風(fēng)景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(攝影術(shù)) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

62. It can be inferred from the Pew study that _______.

　 A. people have been separated from each other by using computers

　 B. the Internet makes people waste a lot of time and feel very lonely

　 C. the Internet has become a tool for a new kind of social communication

　 D. a lot of people regard the person-to-person communication as a good thing

61. According to the Pew study, what do many people rely on to make major life decisions?

　 A. Networks.　　　　　　 B. Friends.　　　　　　　 C. Phones.　　　　　　　 D. Parents.

60. The underlined phrase “networked individualism” probably means that by using computers people ________.

　 A. stick to their own ways no matter what other people say

　 B. have the rights and freedom to do things of their own interest

　 C. do things in their own ways and express opinions different from other people

　 D. are able to keep to themselves but at the same time reach out to other people

60.The author will most probably agree that composers ____. A. are born with a gift for music　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. are people full of mystery C. work late at night for their music　　　　　　　　　　 D. know a lot about eating and sleeping

答案　 57.A　 58.D　 59.C　 60.A

Passage 30

(07·江蘇B篇)

Professor Barry Wellman of the University of Toronto in Canada has invented a term to describe the way many North Americans interact (互動(dòng)) these days. The term is “networked individualism”. This concept is not easy to understand because the words seem to have opposite meanings. How can we be individuals (個(gè)體) and be networked at the same time? You need other people for networks.

Here is what Professor Wellman means. Before the invention of the Internet and e-mail, our social networks included live interactions with relatives, neighbors, and friends. Some of the interaction was by phone, but it was still voice to voice, person to person, in real time.

A recent research study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that for a lot of people, electronic interaction through the computer has replaced this person-to- person interaction. However, a lot of people interviewed for the Pew study say that’s a good thing. Why?

In the past, many people were worried that the Internet isolated (孤立) us and caused us to spend too much time in the imaginary world of the computer. But the Pew study discovered that the opposite is true. The Internet connects us with more real people than expected - helpful people who can give advice on careers, medical problems, raising children, and choosing a school or college. About 60 million Americans told Pew that the Internet plays an important role in helping them make major life decisions.

Thanks to the computer, we are able to be alone and together with other people - at the same time!

59.Most people seem to think that a composer ____. A. finds it difficult to write music　　　　　　　　　　　　

B. considers it important to have a good rest C. should like to talk about inspiration　　　　　　　　

D. never asks himself very simple quesiotns