2022年考博英语-中国矿业大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）第40期.docx

2022年考博英语-中国矿业大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 单选题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 defense 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 asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.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 themselves—anything 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 imposed 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, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those 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 those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon or Pop painting during the 1960's. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities 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 Matisse—presupposes 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 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 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.In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with（  ）.  2.According to the author, the 19lb century defenders of photography stressed that photography was（  ）.3.According to the passage, some serious contemporary photographers make the claim that their photographs（  ）.  4.It can be inferred from the passage that the author most probably considers serious contemporary photography to be a（  ）.问题1选项A.defining the Modernist attitude toward artB.explaining how photography emerged as a fine artC.explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical contextD.defining the various approaches that serious contemporary photographers take toward their art and assessing the value of each of those approaches问题2选项A.a technologically advanced activityB.a device for observing the world impartiallyC.an art comparable to paintingD.an art that would eventually replace the traditional arts问题3选项A.are examples of the photographers’ impartial observation of the worldB.can be created by almost anyone who could devote to the activityC.are important because of the subject but not the responses of the viewersD.exhibit the same principles used in painting问题4选项A.contemporary art accepted as fine artB.craft requiring sensitivity but by no means as artC.mechanical copying of realityD.modern art that displays the Modernist tendency to try to subvert the prevailing aims of art【答案】第1题:C第2题:C第3题:A第4题:D【解析】1.主旨大意题。

题目提问‘在这篇文章中，作者主要关心的是……？’根据第一段中 “Throughout the nineteenth century，the defense of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art.整个19世纪，摄影的辩护都是力争将摄影确定为艺术”和第二段中“Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. 具有讽刺意味的是，虽然已经确凿无疑被认为是一种艺术，但许多摄影家认为把摄影称之为美的艺术是矫揉造作或名不副实的以及全文在讲“在不同的历史背景下，当代严肃的摄影师对摄影是艺术的态度”确定C选项“说明当代严肃的摄影师对摄影作为艺术的态度，并把这些态度放在他们的历史的背景中”正确2.细节事实题题目提问‘据作者说，19世纪摄影的捍卫者强调摄影是……？’根据第一段中“Agai。