新GRE逻辑阅读 每日一练14

　　编辑点评： GRE阅读考试的材料，非常强调逻辑的关系，所以逻辑要点是大家在解GRE阅读题的时候的关键，本文就为大家例举了这样一篇逻辑短文，供大家参考和练习。

　　随着GRE阅读考试的难度日益增加，大家需要有针对性地进行练习，本文为大家例举的就是逻辑短文的练习，文末还附有答案，供大家更好地练习。

　　All of Francoise Duparc s surviving paintings blend portraiture and genre. Her subjects appear to be acquaintances whom she has asked to pose; she has captured both their self-consciousness and the spontaneity of their 5 everyday activities, the depiction of which characterizes genre painting. But genre painting, especially when it portrayed members of the humblest classes, was never popular in eighteenth-century France. The Le Nain brothers and Georges de La Tour, who also chose such 10 themes, were largely ignored. Their present high standing is due to a different, more democratic political climate and to different aesthetic values: we no longer require artists to provide ideal images of humanity for our moral

　　edification but rather regard such idealization as a falsifi15 cation of the truth. Duparc gives no improving message and discreetly refrains from judging her subjects. In brief, her works neither elevate nor instruct. This restraint largely explains her lack of popular success during her lifetime, even if her talent did not go completely unrecognized by her eighteenth-century French contemporaries.

　　7. According to the passage, modern viewers are not likely to value which of the following qualities in a painting?

　　The technical elements of the painting

　　The spontaneity of the painting

　　The moral lesson imparted by the painting

　　The degree to which the painting realistically depicts its subject

　　The degree to which the artist s personality is revealed in the painting

　　8. If the history of Duparc s artistic reputation were to follow that of the Le Nain brothers and Georges de La Tour, present-day assessments of her work would be likely to contain which of the following?

　　An evaluation that accords high status to her work

　　Acknowledgement of her technical expertise but dismissal of her subject matter as trivial

　　Agreement with assessments made in her own time but acknowledgements of the excep-tional quality of a few of her paintings

　　Placement of her among the foremost artists of her century

　　A reclassification of her work as portraiture rather than genre painting

　　9. Select the sentence in the passage in which the author indicates that aesthetic judgments can be influenced by the political beliefs of those making the judgment.

　　答案：C /A / their present high standing is ...

　　上文的题目大家答对了几题?大家不仅要多做题，更要善于总结，这样才会有针对性地提高。