2019年2月24日托福阅读真题+题目+答案：Naturalism and Nature in Art

2019年2月24日托福阅读真题+题目+答案：Naturalism and Nature in Art

In the ancient world, the Greek philosopher Aristotle evaluated works of art on the basis of how faithfully artists recorded what they saw in the natural world. But we need to be aware that when painters working in a naturalistic style make images that seem like untouched snapshots of actual objects, their skill can also render lifelike such fictions as a unicorn or a dragon.

1.The word “faithfully” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A.beautifully

B.vividly

C.accurately

D.simply

Like many people today, ancient Greeks enjoyed the work of especially skillful naturalistic artists (the Greek word for "art," techne, is the same as the Greek word for "craft"). Their admiration for naturalistic depiction is illustrated in a famous story about a competition between rival Greek painters named Zeuxis and Parrhasius in the late fifth century B.C.E. Zeuxis painted a picture of grapes so accurately that birds flew down to peck at them. Then Parrhasius took his turn, and when Zeuxis asked his rival to remove the curtain hanging over the picture, Parrhasius gleefully pointed out that the curtain was his painting. Zeuxis agreed that Parrhasius won the competition since he, Zeuxis, had fooled only birds but Parrhasius had tricked an intelligent fellow artist.

2.According to paragraph 2, all of the following are true of the competition between Zeuxis and Parrhasius EXCEPT:

A.Parrhasius' painting was considered to be better than Zeuxis'.

B.Parrhasius painted a curtain that looked real.

C.Zeuxis took the first turn in the competition.

D.Zeuxis painted a picture of birds pecking grapes.

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