Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42
The sculptural legacy that the new United States inherited from its colonial predecessors was far from a rich one, and in fact, in 1776 sculpture as an art form was still in the hand of artisans and craftspeople. Stone carvers engraved their motifs of skulls and crossbones and other religious icons of death into the gray slabs that we still see standing today in old burial grounds. Some skilled craftspeople made intricately carved wooden ornamentations for furniture or architectural decorations, while others caved wooden shop signs and ships' figureheads. Although they often achieved expression and formal excellence in their generally primitive style, they remained artisans skilled in the craft of carving and constituted a group distinct from what we normally think of as "sculptors" in today's use of the word.
On the rare occasion when a fine piece of sculpture was desired, Americans turned to foreign sculptors, as in the 1770's when the cities of New York and Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned the Englishman Joseph Wilton to make marble statues of William Pitt. Wilton also made a lead equestrian image of King George III that was created in New York in 1770 and torn down by zealous patriots six years later. A few marble memorials with carved busts, urns, or other decorations were produced in England and brought to the colonies to be set in the walls of churches - as in King's Chapel in Boston. But sculpture as a high art, practiced by artists who knew both the artistic theory of their Renaissance Baroque-Rococo predecessors and the various technical procedures of modeling, casting, and carving rich three-dimensional forms, was not known among Americans in 1776. Indeed, for many years thereafter, the United States had two groups from which to choose – either the local craftspeople or the imported talent of European sculptors.
The eighteenth century was not one in which powered sculptural conceptions were developed. Add to this the timidity with which unschooled artisans - originally trained as stonemasons, carpenters, or cabinetmakers - attacked the medium from which they sculpture made in the United States in the late eighteenth century.
Why does the author mention Joseph Wilton in paragraph 2?
A. He was an English sculptor who did work in the United States.
B. He was well known for his wood carvings.
C. He produced sculpture for churches.
D. He settled in the US in 1776.
The sculptural legacy that the new United States inherited from its colonial predecessors was far from a rich one, and in fact, in 1776 sculpture as an art form was still in the hand of artisans and craftspeople. Stone carvers engraved their motifs of skulls and crossbones and other religious icons of death into the gray slabs that we still see standing today in old burial grounds. Some skilled craftspeople made intricately carved wooden ornamentations for furniture or architectural decorations, while others caved wooden shop signs and ships' figureheads. Although they often achieved expression and formal excellence in their generally primitive style, they remained artisans skilled in the craft of carving and constituted a group distinct from what we normally think of as "sculptors" in today's use of the word.
On the rare occasion when a fine piece of sculpture was desired, Americans turned to foreign sculptors, as in the 1770's when the cities of New York and Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned the Englishman Joseph Wilton to make marble statues of William Pitt. Wilton also made a lead equestrian image of King George III that was created in New York in 1770 and torn down by zealous patriots six years later. A few marble memorials with carved busts, urns, or other decorations were produced in England and brought to the colonies to be set in the walls of churches - as in King's Chapel in Boston. But sculpture as a high art, practiced by artists who knew both the artistic theory of their Renaissance Baroque-Rococo predecessors and the various technical procedures of modeling, casting, and carving rich three-dimensional forms, was not known among Americans in 1776. Indeed, for many years thereafter, the United States had two groups from which to choose – either the local craftspeople or the imported talent of European sculptors.
The eighteenth century was not one in which powered sculptural conceptions were developed. Add to this the timidity with which unschooled artisans - originally trained as stonemasons, carpenters, or cabinetmakers - attacked the medium from which they sculpture made in the United States in the late eighteenth century.
Why does the author mention Joseph Wilton in paragraph 2?
A. He was an English sculptor who did work in the United States.
B. He was well known for his wood carvings.
C. He produced sculpture for churches.
D. He settled in the US in 1776.
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Giải thích:
Tại sao tác giả đề cập đến Joseph Wilton ở đoạn 2:
A. Ông là một nhà điêu khắc người Anh đã làm việc ở Mỹ
B. Ông nổi tiếng với các tác phẩm điêu khắc gỗ
C. Ông sản xuất tác phẩm điêu khắc cho nhà thờ
D. Ông định cư ở Mĩ vào năm 1776.
Thông tin ở đoạn 2: "Americans turned to foreign sculptors, as in the 1770's when the cities of New York and Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned the Englishman Joseph Wilton to make marble statues of William Pitt." (người Mĩ tìm đến những nghệ nhân nước ngoài, như vào những năm 1770 khi các thành phố New York và Charleston thuộc Nam Carolina, phó thác cho một người Anh tên Joshep Wilton khắc tượng William Pitt bằng cẩm thạch.) Wilton là 1 ví dụ cho việc mời thợ điêu khắc nước ngoài thực hiện công việc tại Mỹ
Giải thích:
Tại sao tác giả đề cập đến Joseph Wilton ở đoạn 2:
A. Ông là một nhà điêu khắc người Anh đã làm việc ở Mỹ
B. Ông nổi tiếng với các tác phẩm điêu khắc gỗ
C. Ông sản xuất tác phẩm điêu khắc cho nhà thờ
D. Ông định cư ở Mĩ vào năm 1776.
Thông tin ở đoạn 2: "Americans turned to foreign sculptors, as in the 1770's when the cities of New York and Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned the Englishman Joseph Wilton to make marble statues of William Pitt." (người Mĩ tìm đến những nghệ nhân nước ngoài, như vào những năm 1770 khi các thành phố New York và Charleston thuộc Nam Carolina, phó thác cho một người Anh tên Joshep Wilton khắc tượng William Pitt bằng cẩm thạch.) Wilton là 1 ví dụ cho việc mời thợ điêu khắc nước ngoài thực hiện công việc tại Mỹ
Đáp án A.