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【題目】Several weeks ago, kidsPost did a story on “The Art of Video Games” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition has created debate with some people saying that as fun as video games are ,they are not works of art. Other people say that videos games may be a new form of art and that they belong to in museums. We asked readers for their opinions on the topic. Here are a few of the letters we received.

A video game is like a painting on a screen. In order to make a video game, you have to think of something original(新穎的)to reach the players. This is the point of Art.

---Mary Pottanat,13

I believe video games are not a form of art. Art should be a visual (視覺(jué)的)and creative expression of feelings. Although it is arguable that video games are visual ,they do not express feelings in any way.

---Prannab Kirshnan,12

However exciting video games are, they are not art. Painting is art, but not video games. Art has beauty and culture that no technology could ever compare to. Even though you can create art in some video games, the “ Mona Lisa” wasn’t painted with Nintendo.

---Caroline Kaplan,10

Art is a way of communicating ideas to the public in a way that is fun to them. The “public”, who in this case are kids and adults, are finding these video games from different time periods interesting. Video games would not have been art if it had not been for the kids and adults attracted by “the art of video games”.

---Ryan Puthumana,10

【1】Who’s the author?

A. An artist.

B.A video game creator.

C. Someone who works at KidsPost.

D. Someone who works in a museum.

【2】Ryan Puthumana holds the view that video games________.

A. aren’t fun enough to be art.

B. are so interesting that they are art.

C. can’t express feelings as well as art.

D. are not so popular with kids as before.

【3】We can learn from the text that ______.

A. Caroline Kaplan disagrees with Mary Pottanat.

B. Only one kid thinks video games are similar to art.

C. Prannab Kirshnan doesn’t like playing video games.

D. The older the kids are ,the more they like video games.

【4】The text mainly discusses____________.

A. the differences between video games and art.

B. why people like or hate video games.

C. whether video games are art or not.

D. what can be considered works of art.

Answer 1

【答案】

【小題1】C

【2】B

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章主要介紹了kidsPost有關(guān)“video games是不是藝術(shù)”的幾封讀者來(lái)信。

【1】C考查判斷推理題。根據(jù)第一段的最后一句話“We asked readers for their opinions on the topic. Here are a few of the letters we received.”注意關(guān)鍵詞readers�？芍�這是kidsPost的工作人員在向kidsPost的作者征求意見(jiàn)，因此這篇文章也是由kidsPost的工作人員寫的。

【2】B考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)題干Ryan Puthumana定位到最后一封讀者來(lái)信。在這封來(lái)信中第一句Ryan表示以一種有趣的方式與大眾交流想法就是藝術(shù)。第二句指出大眾認(rèn)為video games很有趣。最后一句更是通過(guò)雙重否定直接肯定video games是藝術(shù)。易知選B。

【3】A考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通讀這四篇讀者來(lái)信可知Mary和Ryan認(rèn)為video games是藝術(shù)，Prannab和Caroline認(rèn)為video games不是藝術(shù)。因此B、D與文意不符。C項(xiàng)在文中沒(méi)有體現(xiàn)。

【4】C考查主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一段最后“We asked readers for their opinions on the topic.”以及后面的讀者來(lái)信可知這篇文章主要講的就是關(guān)于一個(gè)video games是不是藝術(shù)的話題。