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左栏是五个人买书的要求,右栏是Golden House出版社的书目及简介。请将这五个人与他们需要的书配对,并把最佳选项的字母编号写在题前的括号里。
People who need booksBooks from Golden House

( )1. Christmas is coming. Randy wants to know all the information about Christmas such as the games, the food, the music and the stories.

( )2. Amy is a girl with many romantic (浪漫的) dreams. She loves sweet love stories. So she likes books with happy endings only.
( )3. Vince is the head of his own band. His dream is to be a musician like John Lenon, the singer from a famous rock band. So he wants to find a book about
that.
( )4. Mystery (神秘) and adventure(冒险) are always boys' dreams. Alan is one of them. He prefers the ancient ones because he always thinks he is a big man not a small boy.
( )5. Li Ming is studying English, next year, he wants to go to England for his further study. So he has to get some information on British life from the book about it.

A. British Life  by Anne Collins
What's everyday life like for people in Britain? Why do they talk about the weather so much? This book will tell you everything that you want to know about this interesting and traditional country.
B. Happy Christmas   by John Escott
This book is like a magazine. Inside it are lots of stories. They tell about Christmas. Learn about the history and tradition of this western holiday, learn to make food and play some games.
C. Silver Bells   by Luranne Rice
It's a sweet love story on Christmas holidays. Christ Byrne, a farmer who sold his Christmas trees in New York, one day met Cathy Tierney, a librarian who lost her husband on Christmas Eve three years before. So a new love and a new hope started lasting a lifetime.
D. The Beatles   by Paul Shipton
John, Paul, George and Ringo: These four young men from England were the most famous and they were some of the best musicians of the 1960s. They became "the Beatles", and their music is still popular today.
E. Angels and Demons   by Dan Brown
Robert Langdon, the hero (男主角) in the book, tried to solve the mystery of a century-old underground organization (地下组织). If you are not brave enough, don't read it alone at night.

答案

1-5 B C D E A

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The history of responses to the work of the artist Sandro Botticelli (1444 ~ 1510) suggests that widespread appreciation by critics is a relatively recent phenomenon. Writing in 1550, Vasari expressed an unease with Botticelli’s work, admitting that the artist fitted awkwardly into his evolutionary scheme of the history of art. Over the next two centuries, academic art historians defamed Botticelli in favor of his fellows Florentine, Michelangelo. Even when anti-academic art historians of the early nineteenth century rejected many of the standards of evaluation adopted by their predecessors, Botticelli’s work remained outside of accepted taste, pleasing neither amateur observers nor connoisseurs. (Many of his best paintings, however, remained hidden away in obscure churches and private homes. )

The primary reason for Botticelli’s unpopularity is not difficult to understand: most observers, up until the midnineteenth century, did not consider him to be noteworthy, because his work, for the most part, did not seem to these observers to exhibit the traditional characteristics of fifteenth-century Florentine art. For example, Botticelli rarely employed the technique of strict perspective and, unlike Michelangelo, never used chiaroscuro.

Another reason for Botticelli’s unpopularity may have been that his attitude toward the style of classical art was very different from that of his contemporaries. Although he was thoroughly exposed to classical art, he showed little interest in borrowing from the classical style. Indeed, it is paradoxical that a painter of large-scale classical subjects adopted a style that was only slightly similar to that of classical art.

In any case, when viewers began to examine more closely the relationship of Botticelli’s work to the tradition of fifteenth-century Florentine art, his ’reputation began to grow. Analyses and assessments of Botticelli made between 1850 and 1870 by the artists of the Pre Raphaelite movement, as well as by the writer Pater (although he, unfortunately, based his assessment on an incorrect analysis of Botticelli’s personality), inspired a new appreciation of Botticelli throughout the English-speaking world. Yet Botticelli’s work, especially the Sistine frescoes, did not generate worldwide attention until it was finally subjected to a comprehensive and scrupulous analysis by Home in 1908. Home rightly demonstrated that the frescoes shared important features with paintings by other fifteenth-century Florentines features such as skillful representation of anatomical proportions, and of the human figure in motion. However, Home argued that Botticelli did not treat these qualities as ends in themselves--rather, that he emphasized clear depletion of a story, a unique achievement and one that made the traditional Florentine qualities less central. Because of Home’s emphasis crucial to any study of art, the twentieth century has come to appreciate Bottieelli’s achievements.

The word "connoisseurs" (Paragraph 1) most probably means()

A. representatives in the Pre-Raphaelite Movement

B. people who are in favor of Florentine

C. critics who are likely to make assessments

D. conservatives clinging to classical art