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In their idle moments, historians occasionally speculate on how the world would be different if Adolf Hitler had passed the entr
In their idle moments, historians occasionally speculate on how the world would be different if Adolf Hitler had passed the entr
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In their idle moments, historians occasionally speculate on how the world would be different if Adolf Hitler had passed the entrance exam to the Art Academy of Vienna, where he applied twice in the early years of the 20th century.【F1】______.
On the contrary, the world is better off that a certain British statesman with a gift for inspiringrhetoric never allowed his love of painting to interfere with his career in politics.【F2】______One can’t helpwishing that Hitler had been a better artist—and being grateful that Winston Churchill wasn’t.
That, anyway, is one lesson to be drawn from the PBS documentary series, whose first segment airs this week, "Chasing Churchill," a travelogue narrated by the late prime minister’s granddaughter Celia Sandys, of the places he visited and loved. Whether he was headed for the gentle flower-draped hills of Provence or the stark deserts of North Africa, his habit, except during the war, was the same— painting. He was especially partial to romantically rugged scenery by sunset; if the light was better at dawn, says Sandys, he would not have been awake to see it.
Churchill bonded over painting with the American general, later president, Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower’s tastes ran to plashing streams, run-down barns and birch-studded snowscapes in a style that might be called Greeting Card Pastoral. He was appropriately modest about his works, which he described as "daubs." Churchill, a far more accomplished and ambitious artist, was well aware of his amateur status.【F3】______
Politics is not a profession that ordinarily rewards creativity, which may be why so few politicians are willing to display it; it’s probably no coincidence that these three were among the most conspicuously self-assured world leaders of the 20th century. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 interrupted plans to release a novel by Saddam Hussein with the forthright title Get Out of Here, Curse You! He had published three others, all critically acclaimed in the Iraqi press and best sellers, presumably because they were required reading in Iraqi schools.【F4】______
Safely out of office in 1995, former president Jimmy Carter published a book of poetry on subjects ranging from childhood reminiscence to geopolitics. The habits of a longtime politician die hard, even when he turns his hand to poetry; the slim volume bears 14 dedications spread over two pages.
Poetry is, of course, the most self-revelatory of arts.【F5】______.Hitler,too,was theonly oneof thethree who occasionally populated his drawings with human figures, usually drawn badly and tiny compared with the real estate Admittedly people are harder to draw than mountains and clouds, but perhaps the choice of subject by men who ruled vast territories is no coincidence. Alone in his aerie, the great man surveys his unpopulated domain: the artist as commander in chief.
A.The 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote 18 novels, some of them fairly racy by the standards of the time.
B.Unfortunately, doubt has been cast on his literary credentials in the form of allegations that the books were actually written by a committee of officials from the Ministry of Information and Culture.
C.But paintings, too, can reveal something about the hands that made them: Eisenhower’s blandness; Hitler’s bombastic obsession with monumental buildings such as the Vienna and Munich opera houses.
D.Presumably, if he’d been allowed to pursue his dream, he would have inflicted on the world only a large number of mediocre watercolors, rather than World War II and the Holocaust.
E.Otherwise Britain might have gained a collection of derivative post-impressionist landscapes to clutter the antiques shops of Portobello Road, and lost the war to Nazi Germany.
F.Equipped with canvas, oils and camel’s-hair brushes, he parked himself behind an easel and in front of the landscape and commenced to smoke cigars, drink champagne and paint.
G. But Hitler for many years regarded himself as an artist by profession. An authorized book of his watercolors referred to him in 1937 as "at once the First Fuehrer and the First Artist of our Reich."
【F3】
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G
解析
此空前提及丘吉尔清楚自己只把绘画(painting)作为业余爱好(amateur status),由于前文都在比较丘吉尔与希特勒,可以推测下文也应该把希特勒作为比较对象,符合要求的只有G,G开头的But表明与上文是转折关系,陈述希特勒把自己看做是专业的艺术家(artist by profession),恰好与上文形成对比,故为正确答案。
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