Question

根据短文内容，从下面的A-F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余选项。
A. Lack of stone images also reflects religious belief.
B. Art is a good means to know about people’s faith.
C. Artists express their feelings and opinions in their works.
D. People know more about our culture through learning art history.
E. Art is by all means relevant to history.
F. Art history provides information of different places and people.
小题1:____________________________
A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than it is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions, and psychology.
小题2:____________________________
In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors---or of people very different from our own---can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than what can be found in most history books.
小题3:____________________________
In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is presented; that is, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is subjective: it reflects emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first truly “political” artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May 1808, he criticized the Spanish government for its misuse of power over people. Over a hundred years later, symbolic images were used in Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to express the horror of war. Meanwhile, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros---as well as the works of Alfredo Ramos Martins---depicted（描述）these Mexican artists’ deep anger and sadness about social problems.
小题4:____________________________
In the same way, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical（圣经的）stories in the pictures on church walls.
小题5:___________________________
By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images. This shows the Islamic belief that statues are unholy. Something else can be more religiously symbolic in history.

Answer 1

小题1:D
小题2:F
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:A

试题分析：文章介绍通过艺术学习可以让人们了解文化。
小题1:D项的 People know more about our culture through learning art history. 和这段的A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than it is possible to learn in general history classes. 说明通过艺术学习人们了解了文化。选D
小题2:F项的Art history provides information of different places and people.和这段的句子： art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than what can be found in most history books.可知艺术提供人们不同的地点和人物的信息。选F
小题3:C项的 Artists express their feelings and opinions in their works. 和这段的Art, on the other hand, is subjective: it reflects emotions and opinions.可知艺术表达的是人的情感和观点。选C
小题4:B项的 Art is a good means to know about people’s faith.可知艺术是了解人们信仰的方式，和这段的： In the same way, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs.一致，选B。
小题5:A项的Lack of stone images also reflects religious belief.和这段的 By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images.相符合，可知缺乏想象也反映的宗教信念选A