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专题04 文章出处推断题
知考法 明考向:
文章出处题要求考生能够根据文章的体裁和题材以及结合一定的常识来推断文章的出处。考生要对报纸、杂志、小说、广告、说明书、旅游指南等有一个基本的了解,这样才能根据文章的特点对号入座,选出正确选项。常见的设问方式有:In which section of a newspaper may this text appear? The passage is probably taken from...等。另外,其他一些推理判断题诸如:考查读者对象,即推断作者写这篇文章主要是给谁看的,以及下一段会讲述什么等在考试中也常出现。
做真题 悟技法
(2023·新课标 II , C篇)
Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers is a celebration of an everyday object — the book, represented here in almost three hundred artworks from museums around the world. The image of the reader appears throughout history, in art made long before books as we now know them came into being. In artists’ representations of books and reading, we see moments of shared humanity that go beyond culture and time.
In this “book of books,” artworks are selected and arranged in a way that emphasizes these connections between different eras and cultures. We see scenes of children learning to read at home or at school, with the book as a focus for relations between the generations. Adults are portrayed (描绘) alone in many settings and poses —absorbed in a volume, deep in thought or lost in a moment of leisure. These scenes may have been painted hundreds of years ago, but they record moments we can all relate to.
Books themselves may be used symbolically in paintings to demonstrate the intellect (才智), wealth or faith of the subject. Before the wide use of the printing press, books were treasured objects and could be works of art in their own right. More recently, as books have become inexpensive or even throwaway, artists have used them as the raw material for artworks — transforming covers, pages or even complete volumes into paintings and sculptures.
Continued developments in communication technologies were once believed to make the printed page outdated. From a 21st-century point of view, the printed book is certainly ancient, but it remains as interactive as any battery-powered e-reader. To serve its function, a book must be activated by a user: the cover opened, the pages par