2017年托福听力考试预测题及答案
导语:预测题是对考试内容方向的预测,有时很准的哦,下面是YJBYS小编整理的2017年托福听力考试预测题及答案,欢迎参考!
By 1776 the fine art of painting as it had developed in western Europe up to this time had been introduced into the American colonies through books and prints, European visitors and immigrants, and traveling colonists who brought back copies (and a few original) of old master paintings and acquaintance with European art institutions.
By the outbreak of the Revolution against British rule in 1776, the status of the artists had already undergone change. In the mid-eighteenth century, painters had been willing to assume such artisan-related tasks as varnishing, gilding teaching, keeping shops, and painting wheel carriages, houses, and signs. The terminology by which artists were described at the time suggests their status: "limner" was usually applied to the anonymous portrait painter up to the 1760's; "painter" characterized anyone who could paint a flat surface. By the second half of the century, colonial artists who were trained in England or educated in the classics rejected the status of laborer and thought of themselves as artists. Some colonial urban portraitists, such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and Charles Wilson Peale, consorted with affluent patrons. Although subject to fluctuations in their economic status, all three enjoyed sufficient patronage to allow them to maintain an image of themselves as professional artists, an image indicated by their custom of signing their paintings. A few art collectors James Bowdoin III of Boston, William Byrd of Virginian, and the Aliens and Hamiltons of Philadelphia introduced European art traditions to those colonists privileged to visit their galleries, especially aspiring artists, and established in their respective communities the idea of the value of art and the need for institutions devoted to its encouragement.
Although the colonists tended to favor portraits, they also accepted landscapes, historical works, and political engravings as appropriate artistic subjects. With the coming of independence from the British Crown, a sufficient number of artists and their works were available to serve nationalistic purposes. The achievements of the colonial artists, particularly those of Copley, West, and Peale, lent credence to the boast that the new nation was capable of encouraging genius and that political liberty was congenial to the development of taste — a necessary step before art could assume an important role in the new republic.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) European influence on colonial American painting
(B) The importance of patronage to artist
(C) The changing status of artists in the American colonies in the eighteenth century
(D) Subjects preferred by artists in the American colonies in the eighteenth century.
2. The word "outbreak" in line 5 is closest in meaning to
(A) cause
(B) beginning
(C) position
(D) explanation
3. The word "undergone undergo 经历" in line 6 is closest in meaning to
(A) led to
(B) transformed
(C) preferred
(D) experienced
4. According to the passage , before the American Revolution the main task of limners was to
(A) paint wheel carriages
(B) paint portraits
(C) varnish furniture
(D) paint flat surfaces
5. It can be inferred from the passage that artists who were trained in England
(A) considered artists to be superior to painters
(B) barely painted portraitists
(C) were often very wealthy
(D) imitated English painters
6. The word "consorted 结交" in line 14 is closest in meaning to
(A) made decisions
(B) studies
(C) agreed
(D) associated
7. The word "sufficient充足的,充分的'" in line 16 is closest in meaning to
(A) adequate
(B) temporary
(C) friendly
(D) expensive
8. According to the passage , artists such as Copley, West and Peal signed their paintings
(A) increased the monetary value of the paintings
(B) made it more difficult for other artists to copy the paintings
(C) supported the artists' image of professionalism
(D) distinguished colonial American artists from European artists
9. The author mentions James Bowdoin III and William Byrd in line 17 as examples of which of the following?
(A) Art gallery owners who displayed only European art
(B) Art collectors who had a profound influence on American attitudes toward art
(C) Artists who gave financial support to other artists
(D) Patrons whose helped to encourage artisans to become artists
10. With which of the following would the author be most likely to agree?
(A) Countries that have not had a political revolution are unlikely to develop great art.
(B) The most successful art collectors are usually artists themselves.
(C) The value of colonial American paintings decreased after the Revolution.
(D) Colonial artists made an important contribution to the evolving culture of the new nation.
答案:
CBDBA DACBD
语法补充:i. 谓语动词
1. 主谓一致
(1)主谓的分隔塬则 主谓之间可以用定语从句及省略形式的定从分隔
S, ---,VO eg: The Hopi,霍皮人 the tribe, have lived..
Sister lotus,the most beautiful woman in China, feels very lonely.
* 主谓一致与主语同位语无关,主语可以与插入语无关,主语和同位语二者是主语和表语的关系
(2)谓语随后一致 就近
not 单n(A). but 复n.(B) + 复V+ are not only 单n(A). but also 复n(B). + 复V+ are
还有。。。。
由B决定谓语
(3)谓语随前一致 就远
单n. + with, of, along with, together with, as well as, including, accompanied with/ by +复n. + 单V
(4)就近一致
单n. or 复n. eg: is he or we... 对 he or we are... 对
either 单n. or 复n.+ are neither 单n. nor 复n.+ are
neither nor
eg:
The structure (or) behavior (of many) protozoans塬生动物 are (amazingly) complex for single-celled (animals).
答案: A orand
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