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Passage 2 （36~40 題） Paul Cézanne is one of the greatest artists of all time. One could say that good art speaks in a language we know: we get themessage and then move on. Great art seems to speak in a foreign language we imagine we’ll get with long enough immersion.However, there’s Cézanne, who is like the sound of water dripping or the clank of a train. It’s just there to be known, full ofmeaning and pleasure, somehow, but without a hope of translation. With most of Cézanne’s rivals, however superb, there are certain banalities we utter that also happen to be true: Michelangelois about cosmic drama and heroic bodies; Monet is about light and brushwork and modern French life. With Cézanne, we don’thave the backup of truisms. Or rather, the ones that do get trotted out are all simply wrong. “Cézanne reduces the world to a fewgeometric solids”—ludicrous to anyone who really looks at his stew of shapes. “Cézanne simply stared harder at the world thanother artists”—absurd to anyone who recognizes how little looking at a Cézanne apple is like looking at a real one. “Cézanne isonly about composition and color”—impossible, given how much he labors over getting his card players right as humans. There are other great artists who will puzzle us forever—James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Arnold Schoenberg—but thatpuzzlement seems to come from their willful complexity. Whereas it seems as though Cézanne wants to keep things simple butthen can’t. Tapping his head, he once said, “Painting . . . it’s inside here.” The glory of his art is that, no matter how hard we try,we can never quite see it.
36. What does the author feel about Cézanne’s art?
(A) It speaks in a language we know.
(B) It speaks in a language that we cannot paraphrase.
(C) It speaks in a foreign language we imagine we’ll get with long enough immersion.
(D) It speaks in a foreign language that is simple.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(3),B(8),C(3),D(1),E(0)

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