托福阅读辅导-老托福阅读真题及答案passage21.docx
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1、托福阅读辅导:老托福阅读真题及答案passage21 为了帮助大家备考托福阅读，练习更多阅读题目。提高阅读水平，下面我给大家带来托福阅读辅导:老托福阅读真题及答案 PASSAGE 21，希望对大家有所帮助! 托福阅读辅导:老托福阅读真题及答案 passage 21 老托福阅读原文 passage 21 The sculptural legacy that the new United States inherited from its colonial predecessors was far from a rich one, and in fact, in 1776 sculpture as
2、 an art form was still in the hands of artisans and craftspeople. Stone carvers engraved their motifs of skulls and crossbones and other religious icons of death into the gray slabs that we still see standing today in old burial grounds. Some skilled craftspeople made intricately carved wooden ornam
3、entations for furniture or architectural decorations, while others caved wooden shop signs and ships' figureheads. Although they often achieved expression and formal excellence in their generally primitive style, they remained artisans skilled in the craft of carving and constituted a group dist
4、inct from what we normally think of as "sculptors" in today's use of the word. On the rare occasion when a fine piece of sculpture was desired, Americans turned to foreign sculptors, as in the 1770's when the cities of New York and Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned the Engli
5、shman Joseph Wilton to make marble statues of William Pitt. Wilton also made a lead equestrian image of King George III that was created in New York in 1770 and torn down by zealous patriots six years later. A few marble memorials with carved busts, urns, or other decorations were produced in Englan
6、d and brought to the colonies to be set in the walls of churches as in King's Chapel in Boston. But sculpture as a high art, practiced by artists who knew both the artistic theory of their Renaissance-Baroque-Rococo predecessors and the various technical procedures of modeling, casting, and carv
7、ing rich three-dimensional forms, was not known among Americans in 1776. Indeed, for many years thereafter, the United States had two groups from which to choose either the local craftspeople or the imported talent of European sculptors. The eighteenth century was not one in which powered sculptural
8、 conceptions were developed. Add to this the timidity with which unschooled artisans originally trained as stonemasons, carpenters, or cabinetmakers attacked the medium from which they sculpture made in the United States in the late eighteenth century. 老托福阅读题目 passage 21 1. What is the main idea of
9、the passage ? (A) There was great demand for the work of eighteenth-century artisans. (B) Skilled sculptors did not exist in the United States in the 1770's. (C) Many foreign sculptors worked in the United States after 1776. (D) American sculptors were hampered by a lack of tools and materials.
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