GRE阅读 | 破解GRE阅读理解系列（七）

The passage suggests that which of the following would most likely have occurred if linear perspective and anatomy had not come to influence artistic endeavor? 

（推断题）（判定依据：When this bracing element of craftsmanship ceased to dominate artists’ outlook, new technical elements had to be adopted to maintain the intellectual element in art. Such were linear perspective and anatomy. 逻辑模型：当A停止发挥功能的时候，就会有类似A的B发挥A 的功能。）

(A) The craftsmanship that shaped Gothic architecture would have continued to dominate artists’ outlooks.

(B) Some other technical elements would have been adopted to discipline artistic inspiration.

(C) Intellectual control over artistic inspiration would not have influenced painting as it did architecture.

(D) The role of intuitive inspiration would not have remained fundamental to theories of artistic creation.

(E) The assumptions of aesthetic philosophers before Croce would have been invalidated.

The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?

(读选项后发现，此题细节信息题。只是以question的形式来介绍statement，然后我们看看这些statement是否在文中有对应和符合的信息出现)

(A) Does Romantic art exhibit the triumph of intuition over intellect?

(B) Did an emphasis on linear perspective and anatomy dominate Romantic art?

(C) Are the intellectual and intuitive faculties harmoniously balanced in post-Romantic art?

(D) Are the effects of the rational control of artistic inspiration evident in the great works of pre-Romantic eras? （原文的依据：Long before the Romantics stressed intuition and self-expression）

(E) Was the artistic craftsmanship displayed in Gothic cathedrals also an element in paintings of this period?

The passage implies that which of the following was a traditional assumption of aesthetic philosophers? （推断题）

(A) Intellectual elements in art exert a necessary control over artistic inspiration.（原文的依据：but philosophers had always assumed it must be controlled by law and by the intellectual power of … ）

(B) Architecture has never again reached the artistic greatness of the Gothic cathedrals.

(C) Aesthetic philosophy is determined by the technical necessities of art.

(D) Artistic craftsmanship is more important in architectural art than in pictorial art.

(E) Paintings lacked the intellectual element before the invention of linear perspective and anatomy.

The author mentions “linear perspective and anatomy” in the last sentence in order to do which of the following? （意图题，直接信息题。）（判定依据：When this bracing element of craftsmanship ceased to dominate artists’ outlook, new technical elements had to be adopted to maintain the intellectual element in art. Such were linear perspective and anatomy. 逻辑大意：当A停止发挥功能的时候，就会有类似A的B发挥A 的功能。然后以linear perspective 和anatomy来举例。）

(A) Expand his argument to include painting as well as architecture

(B) Indicate his disagreement with Croce’s theory of the origins of art

(C) Support his point that rational order of some kind has often seemed to discipline artistic inspiration

(D) Explain the rational elements in Gothic painting that corresponded to craftsmanship in Gothic architecture

(E) Show the increasing sophistication of artists after the Gothic period