大学英语六级阅读模拟试题(10).doc

1、2019年大学英语六级阅读模拟试题（10）The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs 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 o

2、f 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 asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than p

3、ainting.Ironically, now that photography is securely 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 observing, witnessing events, exploring themselvesanything but making

4、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 imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the m

5、ore 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, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures,

6、they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expression ist 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 photographys

7、prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the1960s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art.

8、Classical Modernist paintingthat is, abstract art as developed indifferent ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matissepresupposes 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; phot

9、ography seems to be more about its subjects than about art.Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-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 pretensi

10、ons of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activityin short, an art.练习题1. What is the author mainly concerned with? The author is concerned withA . defining the Modernist attitude toward art.B . explaining how photography emerged as a fine ar

11、t.C . explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context.D . defining the various approachesthat serious contemporary photographers take toward their art and assessing the value of each of those approaches.2

12、. Which of the following adjectives best describes the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism as the author represents it in lines 1213?A. Objective B. Mechanical. C. Superficial. D. Paradoxical.3. Why does the author introduce Abstract Expressionist painter?A . He wants to provide an ex

13、ample of artists who, like serious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modern art.B . He wants to set forth an analogy between the AbstractExpressionist painters and classical Modernist painters.C . He wants to provide a contrast to Pop artist and others.D . He wants

14、 to provide an explanation of why serious photography, like other contemporary visual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art.4. How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography?A . They stressed photography was a means of making people happy.B . It was art fo

15、r recording the world.C . It was a device for observing the world impartially.D . It was an art comparable to painting.Vocabulary1. fine arts美术（指绘画，雕刻，建筑，诗歌，音乐等 ）2. assert主张，声明，维护（权利）3. privileged特殊的，享受特权的，特许的4. pretentious狂妄的，做作的5. irrelevant不相干的，无关的6. subversive破坏性的，颠覆性的7. disclaimer 弃权者8. harry掠夺

16、，折磨9. austerity严格，简朴10. convergence 聚合，集合点11. implicit 含蓄的12. distinctive区别的，独特的13. exalted 高贵的，高尚的难句译注14. The earliest controversies about therelationship between photography and art centeredon whether photographs fidelity to appearancesand dependence on a machine allowed it to be afine art as dist

17、inct from merely a practical art.结构简析此句为主谓语+宾语从句。As distinct from 句修 饰 fine art.参考译文最早有关摄影和艺术关系的争论点集中在摄影对 表象的忠实和对机器的依赖能否使它成为艺术，有别于仅仅是实用的美术。15. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a r

18、evolt againstcommonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.结构简析结构是主谓宾从。句子长是因为介词短语againstthe charge后接同位说明语 thephotography was宾语从句中有三 组表语： a way of seeing, a revolt, an art.参考译文正队这种指责：摄影是一种没有灵魂的，对现实机械性复制，摄影工作者声名摄影不是复制品， 而是一种特殊的观察方式，是对平庸视觉的叛逆，和绘画一样有艺术价值16. It shows the extent to which the

19、y simply take for granted the concept of art imposedby the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditionalaims of art.结构简析句子结构为主从句，which引导宾从作介词to的 宾语,宾从中imposed by 分词短语修饰 concept of art, the better the more 是说明 concept of art.参考译文这说明他们就是把现代主义胜利所强加的艺术概 念视为合理的，其合

20、理程度是：艺术越强，对艺术的传统目的破 坏得越大。17. Photographers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harriedstatus of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art.结构简析名词disclaimer放弃，否认。上下文翻译中可译 成动词含义，否认抛弃创作艺术的兴趣。参考译文摄影师否认对创作艺术感性趣，他们告诉我们更 多的是有关现代艺术概念的令人苦恼的情况，而

21、不是摄影是不是艺术问题。18. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography asan activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public willforget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activityin short, an art.结构简析复合句。句内三个that clause.第一个是worry的 宾从;第二个是so far that的句型。第三个是forget之宾从。参考译文许多专业摄影人员私下开始担忧，强调摄影是对传统艺术意图的颠覆活动的做法有些过分了，（活动的宣传走得太远）以致使公众忘记摄影是一种独特的高尚活动总之，是一种 艺术。写作方法与文章大意文章论及摄影是否是艺术问题，这样采用对比手法。一开