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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 accepted. 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 differences in their goals. For the sciences, a new theory is the goal and end result of the creative act. Innovative science produces new propositions in terms of which diverse phenomena can be related to one another in more coherent ways. Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird are 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, who 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 of the rules, forms, and conventions that he inherited from predecessors such as Haydn and Mozart, Handel and Bach in strikingly original ways.  
Which of the following questions might the passage be able to answer?
选项 A、Does artistic creativity mean transcending limits?
B、What is the main feature of Picasso’s painting Guernia?
C、Why is Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro considered as one of the musical masterpieces?
D、Who besides Monteverdi wrote music to embody new principles of organization?
答案A
解析 推断题。文章说明了科学创造和艺术创造的不同，第一段最后一句和第二段倒数第二句两次提到，艺术创造并非要超越即定的限制，由此推断，文章可以解答艺术创造是否意味着超越限制这一问题，故选A。至于B、C、D，原文中均未提及。作者提到了Picasso的 Guemia，Mozart的The Marriage of Figaro，以及Monteverd，但是它们均作为例子出现，作者并没有深入探讨，因此无法确定这几个问题的答案。
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