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1、2013年大學(xué)英語六級(jí)考試閱讀訓(xùn)練題（5）3900字 In the past century Irish painting has changes from a British-influenced lyrical tradition to an art that evokes the ruggedness and roots of an Irish Celtic past. At the turn of the twentieth century Irish painters, including notables Walter Frederick Osborne and Sir Willi

2、am Orpen, looked elsewhere for influence. Osbornes exposure to “plein air” painting deeply impacted his stylistic development; and Orpen allied himself with a group of English artists, while at the same time participated in the French avant-garde experiment, both as painter and teacher. 思想?yún)R報(bào) /sixian

3、ghuibao/ However, nationalist energies were beginning to coalesce (接合)，reviving interest in Irish culture-including Irish visual arts. Beatrice Elverys (1907), a landmark achievement, merged the devotional simplicity of fifteenth-century Italian painting with the iconography (肖像畫法) of Irelands Celti

4、c past, linking the history of Irish Catholicism with the still-nasce t (初生的) Irish republic. And, although also captivated by the French plein air school, Sir John Lavery invoked the mythology of his native land for a 1928 commission to paint the central figure for the bank note of the new Irish Fr

5、ee State. Lavery chose as this figure, with her arm on a Celtic harp (豎琴)，the national symbol of independent Ireland.In Irish painting from about 1910, memories of Edwardian romanticism coexisted with a new sense of realism,exemplified by the paintings of Paul Henry and Se Keating, a student of Orpe

6、ns. realism also crept into the work of Edwardians Lavery and Orpen, both of whom made paintings depicting World War,Lavery with a distanced Victorian nobility, Orpen closer to the front, revealing a more sinister and realistic vision. Meanwhile, counterpoint to the Edwardians and realists came Jack

7、 B. Yeats, whose travels throughout the rugged and more authentically Irish West led him to depict subjects ranging from street scenes in Dublin to boxing matches and funerals. Fusing close observations of Irish life and icons with an Irish identity in a new way, Yeats changed the face of Irish pain

8、ting and became the most important Irishartist of his century.1. Which of the following art most probably exerted the greatest influence on Irish painting in the 19th century? 畢業(yè) A. British lyrical tradition B. French avant-garde experiment C. notionalist energies D. Italian painting 論文代寫2. It is im

9、plied_was least influenced by the contemporary art of Frence. 思想?yún)R報(bào) /sixianghuibao/A. Sir John Lavery B. Sir William Orpen C. Beatrice Elvery D. Se Keating 畢業(yè)論文 3. Which of the following best explains the authors use of the word “counterpoint” in referring to Yeats? 總結(jié)大全 /html/zongjie/A. Yeats painti

10、ngs differed significantly in subject matter from those of his contemporaries in Ireland. 思想?yún)R報(bào) /sixianghuibao/B. Yeats reacted to the realism of his contemporary artists by invoking nineteenth-century naturalism in his own painting style.C. Yeats avoided religious and mythological themes in favor of

11、 mundane portrayals of Irish life. 畢業(yè)論文D. Yeats built upon the realism painting tradition, elevating it to unprecedented artistic heights. 思想?yún)R報(bào) /sixianghuibao/4. The author points out the coexistence of romanticism and realism most probably in order to show that_. 畢業(yè)A. Irish painters of the early tw

12、entieth century tended to romanticize the harsh reality of war 作文 /zuowen/B. for a time painters from each school influenced painters from the other school 畢業(yè)C. Yeats was influenced by both the romantic and realist schools of Irish paintingD. the transition in Irish painting from one predominant sty

13、le to the other was not an abrupt one 畢業(yè) 5. The most likely topic of the paragraph followed is _. 簡(jiǎn)歷大全 /html/jianli/A. The Role of Celtic Mythology in Irish Painting 畢業(yè)B. Who Deserves Credit for the Preeminence of Yeats among Irish Painters?C. Realism vs. Romanticism: Irelands Struggle for National Identity 作文 /zuowen/D. Irish Paintings: Reflections of an Emerging Independent State答案AAADD