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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 mentions London’s National Gallery to illustrate________.
选项 A、the undesirable cost to a nation of maintaining a huge collection of art
B、the conflict that may arise in society between financial and artistic values
C、the negative effect a museum can have on visitors’ opinions of themselves
D、the need to put individual well-being above large-scale artistic schemes
答案C
解析 本题关键词是London’s National Gallery，问题是作者提及伦敦国家美术馆的目的是什么。可以定位到第二、三段，因为第三段并非独立段落，而是就第二段伦敦国家美术馆的例子发表看法。第二段首句指出博物馆的第一个消极影响：博物馆展览展品的方式会让人们有种卑微和渺小的想法。第三段第二句viewer is deterred from trying to extend…reading指出另一消极影响：博物馆藏品的价值限制了参观者对藏品本能直接地表达自己的见解。因此选项C与原文是相同含义，是正确选项。虽然文中提及每一项展品的价格高于普通参观者的财富之和，但并未提及维护大量艺术藏品需要花费令人不满的巨额开销，因此选项A属于主观推导。选项B文中并未提及，属于无中生有。文中只提及人们的个人福祉位于大型艺术方案之下的现象，并未提及解决方案，选项D属于无中生有。第三段：博物馆藏品的价值限制参观者对藏品进行个人解读。
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