2019版高考英语一轮抓纲务本模块2Unit2Wishyouwerehere（含解析）牛津译林版.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 Wish you were here 一、阅读理解。 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. A major Vermeer exhibition opens this month at the Louvre in Paris，whose 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，this image represents modern culture. So attracted are todays art lovers 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 avant-garde(先锋派)in the 19th century who saved him from being completely forgotten.Compare his painting Woman in Blue Reading a Letter or The Little Street with，say，Edouard Manets A Bar at the Folies-Bergère(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. 1．How many paintings produced by Vermeer are mentioned in the text? A．Four. B．Five. C．Six. D．Seven. 2．What can we know about Ver