大学英语四级试练习卷
一、阅读理解
阅读理解（一）
梦见自己的孩子死了The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph’s fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asrted that it was instead a privileged way of eing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.
Ironically, now that photography is curely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially obrving, witnessing events, exploring themlves—anyt
演讲稿主题hing but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art impod by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.
Photographers’ disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, tho photographers who suppo that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of tho Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photography’s prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with tho of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960’s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to nsibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting—that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and
Matis—presuppos highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography ems to be more about its subjects than about art.
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Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and lf-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity—in short, an art.
1. What is the author mainly concerned with? The author is concerned with
[A]. defining the Modernist attitude toward art.
产品概述[B]. explaining how photography emerged as a fine art.
[C]. explaining the attitude of rious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing tho attitudes in their historical context.
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[D]. defining the various approaches that rious contemporary photographers take toward their art and asssing the value of each of tho approaches.
2. Which of the following adjectives best describes “the concept of art impod by the triumph of Modernism” as the author reprents it in lines 12—13?
[A]. Objective [B]. Mechanical. [C]. Superficial. [D]. Paradoxical.
3. Why does the author introduce Abstract Expressionist painter?
[A]. He wants to provide an example of artists who, like rious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modern art.
[B]. He wants to t forth an analogy between the Abstract Expressionist painters and classical Modernist painters.
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红色雨衣[C]. He wants to provide a contrast to Pop artist and others.
[D]. He wants to provide an explanation of why rious photography, like other contempor
ary visual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art.
4. How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography?
