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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.
Usually, the architectural style of the building looks like________.
选项 A、welcoming visitors to come to visit exhibit
B、preventing visitors from getting close to the exhibit
C、luxurious as well as elegant
D、avoiding people to get inside
答案B
解析 本题关键词是architectural style，问题是博物馆的建筑风格看起来有什么特点。可以定位到第二段。根据第二段第三、四句话，在参观一件收藏品之前，无论是保安、侍者、隔离带还是展览橱窗都仿佛在提醒我们要与宝藏保持距离(to keep us away from the exhibits)。在许多情况下，博物馆的建筑风格让我们这一想法变得更加强烈(reinforces that notion)，因此选项B与原文是相同含义，是正确答案。选项A“欢迎参观者前来观展”，属于正反混淆。选项C属于无中生有。原文只提及禁止人们近距离观看，而非禁止人们入内，因此选项D属于扩大范围。第一段：博物馆推崇原版作品会限制参观者的体验经历。第二段：博物馆展览展品的方式会对参观者产生消极影响。
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