2019版高三英语一轮复习 课时提能练8 Module 4 Fine Arts-Western，Chinese and Pop Arts 外研版必修2.docVIP

Module 4　Fine Arts—Western(限时：35分钟)(对应学生用书第315页)Ⅰ.阅读理解(2018·成都市高三第三次诊断)Johannes Vermeer is such a quiet and introspective(内省的)artist that it took hundreds of years for anyone to notice he was a genius.ose permanent collection includes his great painting of a woman absorbed in close，visually demanding work，The Lacemaker (about 1669－1670)．Like other paintings by Vermeer that it was thought shocking when a recent survey found that 82% of Americans cant name who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.Well，maybe they dont go to the movies much. It is not true to say he was forgotten－that would suggest he was famous in his lifetime.He was not.Vermeer was one more painter among the many who worked for money in the Dutch Republic in the 17th century.He was not a star like Rembrandt.He obviously took himself and his art seriously.His self-referential painting The Art of Painting proves that.Even though he worked all his life in Delft，he painted only 35 known works and left his family poor when he died in 1675 at the age of 43. It is fitting that Paris is celebrating Vermeer，because it was the French avantgarde(先锋派)in the 19th century who saved him from being completely forgotten.Compare his painting (1882)or Camille Pissarros The Boulevard Montmartre at Night(1897) and it is easy to see why the art of Vermeer found its natural audience in Parisian bohemia. All these artists are likely to have known about and admired Vermeer due to the efforts of the critic Thoré-Bürger，a veteran of the 1848 Revolution. Vermeers rediscovery is part of the history of modern French art.Vermeer is not only a great artist.He is a great modern artist. 【语篇解读】　本文是一篇说明文主要介绍了著名画家Johannes Vermeer的生平和他的艺术特点。1．How many paintings produced by Vermeer are mentioned in the text? A．Four. 　B．Five. B　[考查细节理解。通读全文可知本文共提及Vermeer的五幅画作包括第二段提及的、第三段提及的、第四段提及的The Art of Painting、第五段提及的Woman in Blue Reading a Letter和The Little Street故B项正确。]2．What can we know about Vermeer from Paragraph 4? A．He was well-known when he was