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Questions 31-39In eighteenth-century colonial America, flowers and fruit were typically theprovince of the botanical artist interested in scientific illustration rather than beingthe subjects of fine art. Early in the nineteenth century, however, the Peale family ofPhiladelphia established the still life, a picture consisting mainly of inanimate(5) objects, as a valuable part of the artist's repertoire. The fruit paintings by James andSarah Miriam Peale are simple arrangements of a few objects, handsomely colored,small in size, and representing little more than what they are. In contrast were thehighly symbolic, complex compositions by Charles Bird King, with their bitingsatire and critical social commentary. Each of these strains comminuted into and(10) well past mid-century.John F. Francis (1808-86) was a part of the Pennsylvania still-life tradition thatarose, at least in part, from the work of the Peales. Most of his still lifes date fromaround 1850 to 1875. Luncheon Still Life looks like one of the Peales' pieces on alarger scale, kits greater complexity resulting from the number of objects. It is also(15) indebted to the luncheon type of still life found in seventeenth-century Dutchpainting. The opened bottles of wine and the glasses of wine partially consumedsuggest a number of unseen guests. The appeal of the fruit and nuts to our sense oftaste is heightened by the juicy orange, which has already been sliced. Thearrangement is additive, that is, made up of many different parts, not always(20) compositionally integrated, with all objects of essentially equal importance.About 1848, Severin Roesen came to the United States from Germany andsettled in New York City, where he began to paint large, lush still lifes of flowers,fruit, or both, often measuring over four feet across. Still Life with Fruit andChampagne is typical in its brilliance of color, meticulous rendering of detail,(25) compact composition, and unabashed abundance. Rich in symbolic overtones, thebeautifully painted objects carry additional meanings------butterflies or fallen budssuggest the impermanence of life, a bird's nest with eggs means fertility, and so on.Above all, Roesen's art expresses the abundance that America symbolized to many of its citizens.
31. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The artwork of James and Sarah Miriam Peale
(B) How Philadelphia became a center for art in the nineteenth century
(C) Nineteenth-century still-life paintings in the United States
(D) How botanical art inspired the first still-life paintings

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答案：C
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統計：A(0),B(1),C(5),D(1),E(0)

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