3. According to the passage, which is the main concern for medieval artists?

　　(a) the individual person and his/her possessions and surroundings

　　(b) real people, real scenes

　　(c) eternal timeless truth of the earth

　　(d) themes of religious stories

　　4. The discovery of perspective was the result of

　　(a) Renaissance artists’ to prove that the medieval artists could show level of reality

　　(b) the need to turn an object at an angle and draw more than one side of it

　　(c) the subject being shifted from religious stories to individual person and surroundings.

　　(d) natural evolution of human senses

　　5. The word “it” in line 12 refers to

　　(a) the picture

　　(b) perspective

　　(c) angle

　　(d) the object

　　6. The word “Grammar ” in line 13 is closest in meaning to

　　(a) construction

　　(b) grammatical rules

　　(c) rules and regulations

　　(d) tones and volume

　　7. The author’s purpose to give the example in line14-15 is to

　　(a) explain how perspective work in painting

　　(b) support two-pointed perspective

　　(c) illustrate that there are exceptions about perspective

　　(d) point out that the technique of perspective though seems so natural is an invented technique

　　8. The following artists’ priorities in style shift away from perspective except

　　(a) Crivelli

　　(b) Cezanne

　　(c) Japanese artists

　　(d) Brunelleschi

　　9. The word ”Illusion” in line 25 is closest in meaning to

　　(a) deception

　　(b) photograph

　　(c) decoration

　　(d) illustration

　　10. It can be inferred from the passage that Renaissance artists

　　(a) embraced the medieval style of eternal truth

　　(b) needed to develop a new approach towards painting to show a new level of reality

　　(c) were inspired by vertical and horizontal surfaces in inventing the technique of perspective

　　(d) saw two dimensional design more important than a feeling of depth

　　参考答案：1.b 2.a 3.d 4.c 5.d 6.c 7.c 8.d 9.a 10.b

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