2009年藝術碩士考試每日一練——6月10日[閱讀理解]

　　Question 6 to10 are based on the following passage(10分)

　　Danner Martha Graham trained her body to move in different ways and in different contexts from any before attempted，“Lift today is nervous，sharp, and zigzag,” she said,“it often stops in midair. That is what I aim for in my dances.” She insisted she never started out to be a rebel. It was only that the emotions she had to express could not be projected through any of the traditional forms.

　　This was in 1925. All forms of art were undergoing a revolution. The theories of psychology were being used to extend the boundaries of poetry, music, and painting.

　　Martha Graham’s first dance concert in her new idiom occurred on April 18, 1926. Experts of dance gathered at the Forty-eight Street Theatre in New York and witnessed Martha Graham’s first foray into this new realm of dance. They saw, through such dance sequences as “Three Gobi Maidens”, and “A Study in Lacquer”, desires and conflicts expressed through bodily movement. These critics agreed that something entirely new, a departure from all previous forms had been witnessed.

　　In the early thirties, she founded the Martha Graham School o Contemporary Dace. Her classes were used as laboratory for her stage works. And her stage works in turn were a means for attracting new pupils to her school-a sort of self-winding process, with herself as the key to the development.

　　Martha Graham and the school she had founded are virtually equivalent to the modern dance. She had not produced a technique of dance, choreographed and taught it, but her students have gone out to fill the modern dance world.

　　6．The passage is written to tell us_______。
　　A．life today is full of desires and conflict.
　　B．a dancer’s view of life.
　　C．Martha Graham’s development of modern dance
　　D．the revolution of art forms in the 1920’s
　　【參考答案】：B
　　【解析】：本題考查的是考生的概括總結能力。從一個舞蹈演員的舞蹈變化來展現她對生活的看法。

　　7．It can be inferred from the passage that, in the beginning of her career, Martha Graham’s
　　mode of dance was________。
　　A．accepted only in New York
　　B．universally accepted
　　C．entirely ignored
　　D．considered rebellious
　　【參考答案】：D
　　【解析】：本題考查的是考生的推理判斷能力。從She insisted she never started out to be a rebel.和These critics agreed that something entirely new, a departure from all previous forms had been witnessed.可以判斷出正確答案。

　　8．According to the passage Martha Graham’s style of dance is _________。
　　A．a departure from the classical dance
　　B．different from traditional dance
　　C．similar to the classical dance
　　D．borrowed from some experts of dance
　　【參考答案】：B
　　【解析】：本題考查的是考生的推斷能力。從第一段的最后一句可以判斷出正確答案。

　　9．Martha Graham’s school of dance was_________。
　　A．poorly managed
　　B．successful and popular
　　C．lucrative and effective
　　D．a failure in modern dance world
　　【參考答案】：B
　　【解析】：本題考查的是考生的推斷能力。從后兩段的最后一句可以得知她的舞蹈學校很受歡迎并且也很成功。

　　10．We can infer from the passage that the present status of Martha Graham’s work_______。
　　A．is carried on by her students
　　B．is bitterly objected by experts of dance
　　C．is historically interesting but is no longer popular
　　D．has evolved into something absurd
　　【參考答案】：A
　　【解析】：本題考查的是考生的推斷能力。從文章的最后一段可以推斷出她的舞蹈事業會在她學生的手里繼續發揚光大。