登录
四、阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
If you’ve never heard of mineral-colour painting, you’re not alone. This form of art is unknown to most people — even many art lovers.
This kind of art is created using materials like rock powder (粉末), coloured soil and sand. It can be traced back to the 3rd-century Kucha Grottomurals (龟兹石窟壁画) of Xinjiang. Yet after the Song and Yuan dynasties, with ink wash painting becoming more and more popular, mineral-colour art gradually fell out of fashion.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, some countries sent people to China to learn all kinds of things. “They loved mineral-colour art and took the art form back to their own country,” said Miao Tong, an artist who has been studying this traditional art form for years.
In the 1980s, many Chinese artists decided to revive this traditional art form in China. In the1990s, they renamed it “mineral-colour art”. Now, this form of painting is being given a new life.
For Miao, the greatest joy in his work is to find the “right earth” to make mineral pigments (颜料). “Every year I go to Wuyi Mountain. It is known for its Danxia land formation (丹霞地貌),” he said. “You can’t imagine how beautiful the earth is there. It is naturally coloured in red, green, yellow, purple, etc.”
But this soil cannot be directly applied to his works. It first has to go through a number of steps, including washing, filtering and sun-drying. After that the soil will be mixed together with a certain kind of glue to be mineral pigments. According to the artist, one mineral-colour painting may take several weeks to several months to complete.
The mineral pigments are able to stay safe from the effects of UV light (紫外线). Therefore, their colours do not fade (褪色) over time. That’s why, even after thousands of years, the cave paintings in the Kucha Grottos are still very bright and colourful.
( ) 1. When did mineral-colour painting first appear in the history of China?
A. In the third century.
B. In the 1980s.
C. During the Sui and Tang dynasties.
D. In the Song and Yuan dynasties.
( ) 2. What does the underlined word “revive” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Give something a new name.
B. Give up.
C. Decorate once more.
D. Give something a new life.
( ) 3. What does Paragraph 6 mainly tell us?
A. Where to find the right earth.
B. How to make the mineral pigments.
C. How to draw a mineral-colour painting.
D. When to get a mineral-colour painting.
( ) 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. It always takes many years to make a mineral-colour painting.
B. People in the Song Dynasty liked ink wash painting very much.
C. In Xinjiang people can find natural earth with all kinds of colours.
D. Mineral-colour paintings can keep the colours for a long time.
If you’ve never heard of mineral-colour painting, you’re not alone. This form of art is unknown to most people — even many art lovers.
This kind of art is created using materials like rock powder (粉末), coloured soil and sand. It can be traced back to the 3rd-century Kucha Grottomurals (龟兹石窟壁画) of Xinjiang. Yet after the Song and Yuan dynasties, with ink wash painting becoming more and more popular, mineral-colour art gradually fell out of fashion.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, some countries sent people to China to learn all kinds of things. “They loved mineral-colour art and took the art form back to their own country,” said Miao Tong, an artist who has been studying this traditional art form for years.
In the 1980s, many Chinese artists decided to revive this traditional art form in China. In the1990s, they renamed it “mineral-colour art”. Now, this form of painting is being given a new life.
For Miao, the greatest joy in his work is to find the “right earth” to make mineral pigments (颜料). “Every year I go to Wuyi Mountain. It is known for its Danxia land formation (丹霞地貌),” he said. “You can’t imagine how beautiful the earth is there. It is naturally coloured in red, green, yellow, purple, etc.”
But this soil cannot be directly applied to his works. It first has to go through a number of steps, including washing, filtering and sun-drying. After that the soil will be mixed together with a certain kind of glue to be mineral pigments. According to the artist, one mineral-colour painting may take several weeks to several months to complete.
The mineral pigments are able to stay safe from the effects of UV light (紫外线). Therefore, their colours do not fade (褪色) over time. That’s why, even after thousands of years, the cave paintings in the Kucha Grottos are still very bright and colourful.
( ) 1. When did mineral-colour painting first appear in the history of China?
A. In the third century.
B. In the 1980s.
C. During the Sui and Tang dynasties.
D. In the Song and Yuan dynasties.
( ) 2. What does the underlined word “revive” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Give something a new name.
B. Give up.
C. Decorate once more.
D. Give something a new life.
( ) 3. What does Paragraph 6 mainly tell us?
A. Where to find the right earth.
B. How to make the mineral pigments.
C. How to draw a mineral-colour painting.
D. When to get a mineral-colour painting.
( ) 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. It always takes many years to make a mineral-colour painting.
B. People in the Song Dynasty liked ink wash painting very much.
C. In Xinjiang people can find natural earth with all kinds of colours.
D. Mineral-colour paintings can keep the colours for a long time.
答案
A
; D
; B
; D
; D
; B
; D
