题目解析
21(B)
首段表明一种新的painting形式出现“the literature on impressionism has now become a kind of ideological battlefield, in which more attention is paid to the subject matter of the paintings, and to the social and moral issues raised by it, than to their style”,以Robert L. Herbert为代表,“his aim is to restore impressionist paintings “to their sociocultural context.””。到此为止,作者只是在陈述背景知识,没有出现+-态度。首段末句“However, his arguments are not finally persuasive.”关键句出现,联想如何攻击ARGUMENT!
次段说明“样本不充分”—作家不充分“Cezanne, Pisarro, and Sisley are almost entirely ignored, largely because their paintings do not suit Herbert’s emphasis on themes of urban life and suburban leisure, while Manet, Degas, and Caillebotte—who paint scenes of urban life but whom many would hardly characterize as impressionists—dominate the first half of the book”以及作品不充分“it also forces Herbert to overlook some of the most important genres of impressionist painting—portraiture, pure landscape, and still-life painting”
末段说明Herbert绘画重点有偏倚--“Moreover, the rationale for Herbert’s emphasis … is finally undermined by what… was the failure of Impressionist painters to serve as particularly conscientious illustrators of their social milieu”
通过上面的分析可以推断:
“The approach to impressionism that is illustrated by Herbert’s recent book is inadequate”为最佳选项。
PS: 其实只看首段分析即可做出判断,但进行全文梳理有助于坚定选项,同时加深对全文的理解
22(C)
根据“Rewald’s book on impressionism”定位原文
“Rewald’s History of Impressionism, which emphasizes Impressionist painters’ stylistic innovations”
选项(C)“an emphasis on the stylistic features of impressionist painting”是对原文句子的复述,因此为最佳选项
23(C)
根据“Herbert’s redefinition of the boundaries”定位原文
“In attempting to place impressionist painting in its proper historical context, Herbert has redrawn the traditional boundaries of impressionism”这里的historical context即为首段中提到的“his aim is to restore impressionist paintings “to their sociocultural context.””
选项(C) “an attempt to place impressionism within a specific sociocultural context” 是对原文句子的复述,因此为最佳选项
24(A)
根据“modern industry and labor as subjects for painting”定位原文
“Recently, politically charged discussions that address the impressionists’ unequal treatment of men and women and
the exclusion of modern industry and labor from their pictures
have tended to crowd out the stylistic analysis favored by Rewald and his followers”
选项(A) “The impressionists neglected these subjects in their paintings”
是对原文句子的复述,因此为最佳选项
25(D)
根据第21题分析,可以推断作者行文思路如下所述:
“a claim is made in the first paragraph, and the next two paragraph, and the next two paragraphs each present reasons for accepting that claim”即,选项(D)
26(D)
根据“were inventions in which style to some degree disrupted description”定位原文
“Not only were their pictures inventions rather than photographs, they were inventions in which style to some degree disrupted description”
再结合其前后思路—前反“Moreover, the rationale for Herbert’s emphasis … is finally undermined by what… was the failure of Impressionist painters to serve as particularly conscientious illustrators of their social milieu”
后也反“no art historian can afford to emphasize one at the expense of the other”
因此,题目中的关键词也在反。<类似数学夹逼原则>
“support the argument that an exclusive emphasis on the impressionists subject matter is mistaken8”
27(E)
抓取题目关键点“regard a book
on the impressionists that focused
entirely on their style as”显然属于末段的“最后一反”<见第26题>
“Their painting in effect have two levels of subject: what is represented and how it is represented, and no art historian can afford to emphasize one at the expense of the other.”what即为内容,how为style
因此,“addressing only part of what an adequate treatment should cover”