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Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionary, flying in the face of what is established and producing

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问题     Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionary, flying in the face of what is established and producing not what is acceptable but what will become acceptable. According to this formulation , highly creative activity transcends the limits of an existing form and establishes a new principle of organization. However, the idea that extraordinary creativity transcends established limits is misleading when it is applied to the arts, even though it may be valid for the sciences. Differences between highly creative art and highly creative science arise in part from a difference in their goals. For the sciences, a new theory are the goal and end result of the creative act. Innovative science produces new propositions in terms of which diverse phenomenon can be related to one another in more coherent ways. Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird is relegated to the role of data, serving as the means for formulating or testing a new theory. The goal of highly creative art is very different; the phenomenon itself becomes the direct product of the creative act. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not a tract about the behavior of indecisive princes or the uses of political power; nor is Picasso’s painting Guernica primarily a prepositional statement about the Spanish, Civil War or the evils of fascism. What highly creative artistic activity produces is not a new generalization that transcends established limits, but rather an aesthetic particular. Aesthetic particulars produced by the highly creative artist extend or exploit, in an innovative way, the limits of an existing form, rather than transcend that form.
    This is not to deny that a highly creative artist sometimes establishes a new principle of organization in the history of an artistic field; the composer Monteverdi, whoi created music of the highest aesthetic value, comes to mind. More generally, however, whether or not a composition establishes a new principle in the history of music has little bearing on its aesthetic worth. Because they embody a new principle of organization, some musical works, such as the operas of the Florentine Camerata, are of signal historical importance, but few listeners or musicologists would include these among the great works of music. On the other hand, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is surely among the masterpieces of music even though its modest innovations are confined to extending existing means. It has been said of Beethoven that he toppled the rules and freed music from the stifling confines of convention. But a close study of his compositions reveals that Beethoven overturned no fundamental rules. Rather, he was an incomparable strategist who exploited limits—the rules, forms, and conventions that he inherited from predecessors such as Haydn and Mozart, Handel and Bach—in strikingly original ways.
The passage supplies information for answering all of the following questions EXCEPT______.
选项 A、Has unusual creative activity been characterized as revolutionary?
B、Did Beethoven work within a musical tradition that also included Handel and Bach?
C、Is Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro an example of a creative work that transcended limits?
D、Who besides Monteverdi wrote music that the author would consider to embody new principles of organization and to be of high aesthetic value?
答案D
解析 本题属于无法根据题干定位的细节题，因此要从选项中提取信息再定位到文中，将选项与原文对照。通过对照发现，选项[A]、[B]、[C]的问题在文中均有涉猎，而根据选项[D]中的关键词定位到文章第二段首句This is not to deny that a highly creative artist sometimes establishes a new principleof organization in the history of an artistic field；the composer Monteverdi，who created music of the highestaesthetic value，comes to mind．可见作者想到反映新规则并且极具艺术价值的作曲家就是蒙特威尔第，而没有他人，故选项[D]的答案文中无法找到，应选选项[D]。
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