单项选择题BOLSTER:

A. demystify
B. oppose
C. erase
D. abandon
E. separate


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1.单项选择题DEBACLE:

A. definite supposition
B. outspoken reply
C. complete triumph
D. partial consent
E. final decision

2.单项选择题The passage suggests that the mystification of the artistic process by certain art historians and artists can be traced to

A. the necessity of protecting artistic meaning from a general public who would most likely misunderstand and object to it
B. an unconscious tendency of non-artists to lionize those artists whom the public admires but fails to understand
C. a desire to protect and maintain the isolation between those who make art and those who analyze it, so as to reinforce the creative/critical distinction
D. a movement to expunge the challenging texts of dual artist/critics like Leonardo da Vinci and Mary Kelly from the critical canon
E. a distinction between the methodology of scholars, who tend to be erudite, and that of artists, who are more intuitive in their thinking processes

3.单项选择题The passage suggests that the post-modernist relegation of an artwork's author to a minor and irrelevant post

A. has resulted in a greater embrace of art forms that are sometimes wholly electronic
B. has failed to entirely counter the notion that art-making originates at some point with an individual
C. has enabled artists to demonstrate the visual and textual connections between art and art criticism
D. has tended to increase the intimacy of creation at the expense of the cognition of artists
E. has tended to subtly reinforce the ways in which artists are perceived as martyrs

4.单项选择题It can be inferred from the passage that prior to the modern era artistic practice was regarded as

A. a hermetic field without potential for collaboration, given that it was almost exclusively populated by "misunderstood geniuses"
B. a field less isolated from the practice of critical analysis than the artistic process of the present era
C. more meaningful and useful as a self-critical force than the aesthetic judgments of non-artists, especially art historians
D. primarily concerned with the masking and concealment of artistic meanings from the general public
E. seldom times as specialized as the various branches of science from which art has traditionally been distinguished

5.单项选择题MERITOCRACY : ACHIEVEMENT ::

A. plutocracy : wealth
B. elitism : expertise
C. theocracy : wisdom
D. bureaucracy : authority
E. gerontocracy : superiority

6.单项选择题RUBBER: TIRE ::

A. skin : hair
B. silver : cutlery
C. window : pane
D. erosion : iron
E. piece : paper

7.单项选择题PERTURB: SERENITY ::

A. denounce : rant
B. interdict : protection
C. purify : imperfection
D. vex : irritation
E. fondle : attachment

9.单项选择题An excellent philatelist can detect a forged______with a single glance, for a true specimen bears markings and characteristics, without exception, that the______invariably lacks.

A. painting… imitation
B. insect… approximation
C. coin… original
D. stamp… facsimile
E. treatise … falsehood