2014年新题型真题
Directions: Read the following text and match each of the numbered items in the left column to its corresponding information in the right column.There are two extra choices in the right column.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.（10 points）
Emerging in the late Sixties and reaching a peak in the Seventies,Land Art was one of a range of new forms,including Body Art,Performance Art,Action Art and Installation Art,which pushed art beyond the traditional confines of the studio and gallery.Rather than portraying landscape,land artists used the physical substance of the land itself as their medium.
The British land art,typified by Richard Long's piece,was not only more domestically scaled,but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart.Indeed,while you might assume that an exhibition of Land Art would consist only of records of works rather than the works themselves,Long's photograph of his work is the work.Since his “action”is in the past,the photograph is its sole embodiment.
That might seem rather an obscure point,but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.
Long is Britain's best-known Land Artist and his Stone Circle,a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor,represents the elegant,rarefied side of the form.The Boyle Family,on the other hand,stands for its dirty,urban aspect.Comprising artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and their children,they recreated random sections of the British landscape on gallery walls.Their Olaf Street Study,a square of brick-strewn waste ground,is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.
Parks feature,particularly in the earlier works,such as John Hilliard's very funny Across the Park,in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph.
Generally however British land artists preferred to get away from towns,gravitating towards landscapes that are traditionally considered beautiful such as the Lake District or the Wiltshire Downs.While it probably wasn't apparent at the time,much of this work is permeated by a spirit of romantic escapism that the likes of Wordsworth would have readily understood.Derek Jarman's yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury,a collection of long,mostly still shots of the Wiltshire landscape,evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash.
In the case of Hamish Fulton,you can't help feeling that the Scottish artist has simply found a way of making his love of walking pay.A typical work,such as Seven Days,consists of a single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk,with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath.British Land Art as shown in this well selected,but relatively modestly scaled exhibition wasn't about imposing on the landscape,more a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art created passing through.It had its origins in the great outdoors,but the results were as gallery-bound as the paintings of Turner and Constable.
41.Stone Circle
42.Olaf Street Study
43.Across the Park
44.Towards Avebury
45.Seven Days
[A] originates from a long walk that the artist took.
[B] illustrates a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art.
[C] reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition.
[D] represents the elegance of the British land art.
[E] depicts the ordinary side of the British land art.
[F] embodies a romantic escape into the Scottish outdoors.
[G] contains images from different parts of the same photograph.
答案解析
41.D【解题思路】根据题干专有名词将答案定位至原文第四段：Long is Britain's best-known Land Artist and his Stone Circle,a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor,represents the elegant,rarefied side of the form.D选项represents the elegance of the British land art 出现词汇复现信息，即represents和elegant（elegance同根词），故D为答案。
42.E【解题思路】根据题干专有名词将答案定位至原文第四段：Their Olaf Street Study,a square of brick-strewn waste ground,is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.各选项中除了landscape多次出现，没有出现其他直接复现信息，因此考生需要重点理解commonplaceness这个单词的意思，common-placeness意为“平凡，寻常，世俗”。浏览各个选项，E选项中的ordinary和其为同义替换。故正确答案为E。
43.G【解题思路】根据题干专有名词将答案定位至原文第五段：Parks feature,particularly in the earlier works,such as John Hilliard's very funny Across the Park,in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph.G选项中的images和different parts of the same photograph属于原文信息词复现，显然正确答案为G。
44.C【解题思路】根据题干专有名词将答案定位至原文第六段：Derek Jarman's yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury,a collection of long,mostly still shots of the Wiltshire landscape,evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash.C选项中的English landscape painting tradition对应原文中的tradition of English landscape，故正确答案为C。
45.A【解题思路】根据题干专有名词将答案定位至原文第七段：A typical work,such as Seven Days,consists of a single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk,with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath.A选项中的originates from 对应原文中的taken on，a long walk对应原文中的an epic walk，故正确答案为A。
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