2024届高考英语外刊阅读天天练：文化艺术语法填空专题

高考英语外刊阅读天天练：文化艺术语法填空专题 ①The Guardian view on edible art: let them eat cake – and digest its meanings Is art eternal? Bobby Baker’s forthcoming installation at Tate Britain is built not ___1____(last). But it also confirms that the best work endures. The gallery is presenting a restaging of her ___2_____(influence) 1976 cake sculpture, An Edible Family in a Mobile Home. Visitors are invited not only to touch ____3___to literally consume the work, in the form of five life-size family members _____4___(make) of biscuits, meringue and cake. Its success may be marked in part by how quickly it disappears. Her own work has drawn repeatedly upon domesticity and motherhood, _____5____(demand) that the viewer see work that usually goes ___6_____(acknowledge), and has celebrated the apparently mundane or distressing in funny, inventive and exuberant ways. Staged at her own prefab home in Stepney, An Edible Family deliberately reflected the lives of the households around her on the estate. She ____7_____(ice) the walls and took the part of the polite host, serving cups of tea to visitors. But there was nothing twee about the installation, which went from beautiful to grotesque as visitors ____8_____(dig) in. Baker’s restaged work is appearing as part of the feminist show Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. It brings together the work of more than 100 artists, many of _____9____ have been largely overlooked and neglected by mainstream institutions and accounts. But while much has changed since Baker first made An Edible Family, the artist told the Guardian: “Society still doesn’t adequately support families, parents, or domestic labour and yet work and childcare are fundamental to ____10_____(survive) and humanity.” 【The Guardian(October 24, 2023)】 ②The taste of a more fulfilled life Tea, the most consumed drink in the world after water, _____1____(list) as one of the seven daily necessities of life in China in ancient times. ____2______ could such a little