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  3. The fact that people go to the Louvre museum in Paris to see the original painting Mona Lisa when they can see a reproduction an

The fact that people go to the Louvre museum in Paris to see the original painting Mona Lisa when they can see a reproduction an

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问题     The fact that people go to the Louvre museum in Paris to see the original painting Mona Lisa when they can see a reproduction anywhere leads us to question some assumptions about the role of museums of fine art in today’s world. But despite an implicit recognition that the spread of good reproductions can be culturally valuable, museums continue to promote the special status of original work. Unfortunately, this seems to place severe limitations on the kind of experience offered to visitors.
    One limitation is related to the way the museum presents its exhibits. As repositories of unique historical objects, art museums are often called "treasure houses". We are reminded of this even before we view a collection by the presence of security guards, attendants, ropes and display cases to keep us away from the exhibits. In many cases, the architectural style of the building further reinforces that notion. In addition, a major collection like that of London’s National Gallery is housed in numerous rooms, each with dozens of works, any one of which is likely to be worth more than all the average visitor possesses. In a society that judges the personal status of the individual so much by their material worth, it is therefore difficult not to be impressed by one’s own relative "worthlessness" in such an environment.
    Furthermore, consideration of the "value" of the original work in its treasure house setting impresses upon the viewer that, since these works were originally produced, they have been assigned a huge monetary value by some person or institution more powerful than themselves. Evidently, nothing the viewer thinks about the work is going to alter that value, and so today’s viewer is deterred from trying to extend that spontaneous, immediate, self-reliant kind of reading which would originally have met the work.
    The visitor may then be struck by the strangeness of seeing such diverse paintings, drawings and sculptures brought together in an environment for which they were not originally created. This "displacement effect" is further heightened by the sheer volume of exhibits. In the case of a major collection, there are probably more works on display that we could realistically view in weeks or even months.
    This is particularly distressing because time seems to be a vital factor in the appreciation of all art forms. A fundamental difference between paintings and other art forms is that there is no prescribed time over which a painting is viewed. By contrast, the audience encounters an opera or a play over a specific time, which is the duration of the performance. Similarly, novels and poems are read in a prescribed temporal sequence, whereas a picture has no clear place at which to start viewing, or at which to finish.
    Thus art works themselves encourage us to view them superficially, without appreciating the richness of detail and labor that is involved.
The writer says that unlike other forms of art, a painting does not________.
选项 A、involve direct contact with an audience
B、require a specific location for a performance
C、need the involvement of other professionals
D、have a specific beginning or end
答案D
解析 本题关键词是other forms of an和a painting，问题是与其他艺术形式比，画作的不同点是什么。可以定位到第五段。根据第五段第二句话，画作和其他艺术形式基本的不同在于，它没有规定的参观时间 (no prescribed time)。相较而言，观众观看歌剧或戏剧需要在演出期间这一特定时间观看；小说和诗歌是按时间先后顺序阅读的，而画作没有特定的鉴赏起点或鉴赏终点。因此选项D与原文是相同含义，是正确答案。选项A与原文view them superficially含义不同，蜻蜓点水式的欣赏也可能需要直接接触，因此选项A属于偷换概念。选项B中的特定场所，与原文所说的特定时间为两个不同的概念，属于偷换概念。选项C文中未提及，属于无中生有。第五段：画作不同于其他艺术形式，人们难以仔细欣赏其细节和用心。
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