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  3. Africa has always been the continent of hidden secrets, unrevealed mysteries and the place where every person dreams to travel t

Africa has always been the continent of hidden secrets, unrevealed mysteries and the place where every person dreams to travel t

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问题     Africa has always been the continent of hidden secrets, unrevealed mysteries and the place where every person dreams to travel to. Seeing and understanding the culture of Africa, means knowing its history and everything it has gone through. The cultural impact that Africa’s arts have in the general collection and its influence is important and irreplaceable.
    The well-known facts are that ancient people in Africa used the image of animals a lot in their art to transmit the special meaning of the animal’s character and that it cognates with the person who owns this thing. The image of animals on different things shares with us the unique contents that the art product carries inside and how deep African people felt other people to choose animals with such a precision.
    The example we are about to talk is "The Divination Portrait of a Lion King and the Man of Iron", performed by king Glele of Dahome. This is one of the brightest examples of African culture and a visual projection of the character of a brave man.
    In ancient Africa a lion could be compared only to Ra(the god of sun), which only by itself indicates the power of this image. And it is very useful to understand the total understating of all the lion-variations, for in different art forms the image of the lion changes giving an additional special meaning to the art product. Fighting lions signify giving mercy to a timid and not subdue a proud one, which means being intelligent and strong enough to show generosity and be merciful. If the lion is depicted obedient and quiet it indicates the image of a person who is not ferocious, however he is unconquerable; the lion here is a symbol of true courage and generosity.
    Very seldom we can find the image of a lion biting himself as that in "The Divination Portrait". He seems to say, "I do not spare even my own flesh. Why do you expect me to spare yours?" It is a symbol of fury.
    The validity of using the image of a strong, powerful animal to emphasize the strength and bravery is unflinching. Africans simply followed their intuition and experiences, making the art product they created deep in the sense of meaning.
    Certainly, the lion is not the only animal used to depict honorable qualities. But the image of the lion is one of the brightest examples of using an animal as the metaphor of power. The whole essence of the creation can be understood through the animal images it sustains in itself. And it can be grown on to a very skilled literature product by the ability to put inside it so much life depicted through the life of an animal.
What can be the purpose of the last paragraph?
选项 A、To emphasize the implication of animal images.
B、To provide more details about animal metaphors.
C、To evaluate the creativity of African people.
D、To reveal relations between images and literature.
答案A
解析 推断题。文章最后一段指出狮子不是唯一可代表高贵品质的动物形象，但其具有重要的启示意义，这种比喻隐射甚至可以延伸至文学作品之中。可见，本段在总结前文的基础上再次强调了动物形象的隐喻意义，因此[A]为答案。最后一段既没有谈及动物形象暗喻的更多细节，也没有对非洲人民的创造力进行任何评价，因此[B]和[C]均不符合原文，排除；文章虽然提到这种动物隐喻或可延伸至文学作品之中，却不能以此说明这些动物形象和文学之间是否存在联系，故[D]也不符合文意。
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