雅思阅读预测真题3答案解析

Life-casting, can we call it art?

1-5 段落matching

1.D 对应：painters have always used technical back-up------studio assistants to do the boring bits, cameras lucida and obscure.... Boring bits 无聊的二进制back-up=help.

2. In the 19th century, life-casting was to sculpture what photography was to painting; and both were viewed as cheating short-cuts by the senior arts.......for many life-casting was an insult to the sculptor’s creative gesture=figure’s mask

3.G 对应：Barthes proclaimed the death of the author the liberation of the text from authorial intention, and the consequent empowerment of the reader

The liberation of the text=author matters in art

4.H 对应：what counts is the surviving object and our living response to it. The tests are simple: does it interest the eye, excite the brain, move the mind to refection, and involve the heart; is an apparent level of skill involved? 其实就是对art 的评价

5.F the initial impact is on the eye, in the contradiction between unexpected size and extreme verisimilitude. The initial impact =depiction of earlier work

6-11判断题

6.Art changes over time, what is art changes, too.=the definition of art

7.Their virtues-of speed and unwavering realism-also implied their limitations; they left little for no room for the imagination.

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10.while apparently lesser crafts involve great skills, thought, preparation, choice and ----depending how we define it---imagination.=requires lots of skills.

11.Each new art movement implies a reassessment of what has gone before; what is done now alters what was done before. In some cases, this is merely self-serving, with the new art using the old to justify itself implies a reassessment=reacquaint

12-13选择题

12.对应在F段: the initial impact is on the eye, in the contradiction between unexpected size and extreme verisimilitude (逼真的事物)= size and realism

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Multitasking Debate

14-18(段落信息Matching)

14.F段Selecting a response to one of these things will delay by some tenths of ability to respond to the Others. This called the ‘response selection bottleneck’ theory, first proposed in 1952

15......studies how aging affects our cognitive abilities

16.’if you show an image and play a sound at the same time , one task is postponed’

Show an image and Play a sound=visual and audio elements

Simultaneously=at the same time

17. To demonstrate this, Marois devised an experiment to locate it

18. He has written papers with titles like ‘Virtually perfect time-sharing in dual task performance’dual task=multitasking 说其优点=favor

19-21（选择题）

19.they have to press a key with their index finger different colored circles require presses from different fingers

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22-26（TFNG）

22.The largest dual-task delays occur when the two tasks are presented simultaneously; progressively shorten as the interval between presenting the tasks lengthens

23.Aircraft engines in one picture have disappeared in the other and they will fail to spot the differences

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26.It is not all bad news for over 55s,though. Kramer also found that older people can benefit from practice.