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  3. A few years back, the decision to move the Barnes, a respected American art institution, from its current location in the suburb

A few years back, the decision to move the Barnes, a respected American art institution, from its current location in the suburb

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问题     A few years back, the decision to move the Barnes, a respected American art institution, from its current location in the suburban town of Merion, Pa., to a site in Philadelphia’s museum district caused an argument — not only because it shamelessly went against the will of the founder, Albert C. Barnes, but also because it threatened to dismantle (拆开) a relationship among art, architecture and landscape critical to the Barnes’s success as a museum.
    For any architect taking on the challenge of the new space, the confusion of moral and design questions might seem overwhelming. What is an architect’s responsibility to Barnes’s vision of a marvelous but odd collection of early Modern artworks housed in a rambling (布局凌乱的) 1920s Beaux-Arts pile? Is it possible to reproduce its spirit in such a changed setting? Or does trying to replicate (复制) the Barnes’s unique atmosphere only doom you to failure? The answers of the New York architects taking the commission are not reassuring.
    The new Barnes will include many of the features that have become virtually mandatory (强制性的) in the museum world today — conservation and education departments, temporary exhibition space, auditorium, bookstore, cafe — making it four times the size of the old Barnes. The architects have tried to compensate for this by laying out these spaces in an elaborate architectural procession that is clearly intended to replicate the peacefulness, if not the fantastic charm, of the old museum.
    But the result is a complicated design. Almost every detail seems to ache from the strain of trying to preserve the spirit of the original building in a very different context. The failure to do so, despite such an earnest effort, is the strongest argument yet for why the Barnes should not be moved in the first place.
    The old Barnes is by no means an obvious model for a great museum. Inside the lighting is far from perfect, and the collection itself, mixing masterpieces by Cezanne, Picasso and Soutine with second-rate paintings by lesser-known artists, has a distinctly odd flavor. But these apparent flaws are also what have made the Barnes one of the country’s most charming exhibition spaces.
    But today the new Barnes is after a different kind of audience. Although museum officials say the existing limits on crowd size will be kept, it is clearly meant to draw bigger numbers and more tourist dollars. For most visitors the relationship to the art will feel less immediate.
The Old Barnes becomes a successful museum mainly because of______.
选项 A、the beneficial geographical position in a suburban town
B、its unique design and orderly collection of arts
C、the influence of its founder Albert C. Barnes
D、the perfect connection among art, architecture and landscape
答案D
解析 首段末说到，这预示着要破坏艺术、建筑和风景之间的关系，这一关系对巴恩斯成为一个成功的博物馆是至关重要的。题干中主句对应该句末尾介词to的宾语the Barnes’s success as a museum，[D]中the perfect connection是对文中a relationship的同义转述，故答案为[D]。[A]中geographical position是根据文中的location所设的干扰项，首段只讲巴恩斯博物馆成功的关键在于所在郊区小城的风景与艺术、建筑完美地结合在一起，并非说仅仅因其地理位置就成为一所成功的博物馆，故排除[A]。第二段第二句中提到旧的巴恩斯布局凌乱(rambling)，[B]中的orderly(井然有序的)显然与此矛盾。文章谈到迁移新址时只是说这一决定无耻地违背了建立者阿尔伯特·C·巴恩斯的意愿，并没有提及他的影响力，故排除[C]。
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