求问楼主，风景画原文是这一个吗？？
In 1993, artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamidoversaw an international poll of artistic preferences. In every nationsurveyed, the overwhelmingly favored subjects for painting were lush landscapevistas with trees, hills, water, human figures, and animals. Oddly, this heldeven for nations without natural terrain or cultural traditions conducive tosuch paintings. Melamid concluded that the modernist dream of creating universalart through geometric abstraction had been misguided-the artistic subject withtruly universal appeal is the landscape.
Art critic Arthur Danto hypothesizedthat worldwide, calendars depicting landscapes have influenced most people’sconcepts of art. In other words, aesthetic indoctrination by the globalcalendar industry could explain the survey results. But since calendars withother imagery are also available, the question of why calendars with landscapesare especially popular remains.
Perhaps the preference for lushlandscapes is not a social construct, but rather an evolved human instinct. OurPaleolithic ancestors would have been more likely to survive if they had beenattracted to areas with water to drink, vegetation and wildlife to eat, andhills that provided vantage points and hiding places. Thus, those whoinstinctively preferred such landscapes would have had more offspring survive,spreading this aesthetic preference through the human population
RC1:
The main purpose of the passage as a whole is to
A. argue that the artworks with the widest popularity arelandscape paintings rather than modernist abstractions
B. assess whether calendars depicting landscapes have influenced many people’s conceptsof art C. explain why among our Paleolithic ancestors those who preferred lush landscapeswould have had more surviving offspring
D. discuss and consider possibleexplanations for the results of an international poll of artistic preferences
E. describe and contrast two competing hypotheses regarding the evolution of humanaesthetic instincts
RC2:
To suggest the insufficiency of the hypothesis that is mentioned in the second paragraph,the passage mentions
A. the results of the international poll of artistic preferences
B. the global reach of the calendar industry
C. the modernist dream of creating universal art through geometric abstraction
D. the conception that art is a social construct
E. calendars with imagery otherthan landscapes
RC3:
The passage most strongly suggests that at least some respondents to the internationalpoll
A. had never seen calendars with lush landscapes
B. had tastes that were favorably influenced by the calendar industry
C. lived in flat, arid,or treeless regions
D. responded that they do not enjoy geometric abstractions
E. preferred paintings of landscapes to photographs of humans
RC4:
Which of the following, if true, could most logically be explained by the hypothesisproposed in the third paragraph?
A. In general hikers greatlyprefer trails through wilderness with variegated terrain, vegetation, andwildlife to other types of trails.
B. Sales data indicate that calendars depicting landscapes of desert rock formationsare more popular than those depicting geometric abstractions.
C. Polls show that abstract modernist paintings have recently become far less popular,while paintings of lush landscapes have become more popular.
D. There is evidence that in many nations, traditions of landscape painting becamereestablished soon after calendars depicting landscapes were first introduced.
E. Archaeologists discovered Paleolithic cave paintings that depict human figuresand wild animals in a geometrically abstract manner.
RC5:
Which of the following, if true, would provide the most support for the hypothesisdiscussed in the second paragraph?
A. Many early calendars produced by the global calendar industryfeatured imagery reflecting the tastes of those producing the calendars.
B. Almost all calendars feature imagery chosen specifically to cater to the artistictastes of people in the nations in which those calendars are sold.
C. Several decades ago, modernistabstractions became highly popular in many nations shortly after calendars featuringsuch abstractions became common.
D. In many nations, before calendars depicting landscapes were introduced, portraitswere far less popular than landscapes.
E. Worldwide, few people buy calendars featuring geometricabstractions if calendars with lush landscapes are available
RC6:
The passage most clearly implies that the cultural traditions mentioned in the firstparagraph (see highlighted text)
A. do not fully determinethe aesthetic preferences of most people with those traditions
B. conflict with a dream of creating universal art
C. have been altered by corporate aesthetic indoctrination
D. reflect the instinctive aesthetic preferences that evolved among our Paleolithicancestors
E. are conducive to creating aesthetically appealing paintings of subjects otherthan landscapes
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