(Para 1)Emerging in the late Sixties and reaching a peak in the Seventies, Land Art was one of a range of new forms, including Body Art, Performance Art, Action Art and Installation Art, which pushed art beyond the traditional confines of the studio and gallery. Rather than portraying landscape, land artists used the physical substance of the land itself as their medium.
(Para 2)The British land art, typified by Richard Long’s piece, was not only more domestically scaled, but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart. Indeed, while you might assume that an exhibition of Land Art would consist only of records of works rather than the works themselves, Long’s photograph of his work is the work. Since his “action” is in the past, the photograph is its sole embodiment.
(Para 3)That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.
(Para 4)Long is Britain’s best-known Land Artist and his Stone Circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant, rarefied side of the form. The Boyle Family, on the other hand, stands for its dirty, urban aspect. Comprising artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and their children, they recreated random sections of the British landscape on gallery walls. Their Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterizes most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.
(Para 5)Parks feature, particularly in the earlier works, such as John Hilliard’s very funny Across the Park, in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph.
(Para 6)Generally however British land artists preferred to get away from towns, gravitating towards landscapes that are traditionally considered beautiful such as the Lake District or the Wiltshire Downs. While it probably wasn’t apparent at the time, much of this work is permeated by a spirit of romantic escapism that the likes of Wordsworth would have readily understood. Derek Jarman’s yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury, a collection of long, mostly still shots of the Wiltshire landscape evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Pant Nash.
(Para 7)In the case of Hamish Fulton, you can’t help feeling that the Scottish artist has simply found a way of making his love of walking pay. A typical work, such as Seven Days, consists of a single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk, with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath. British Land Art as shown in this well selected, but relatively modestly scaled exhibition wasn’t about imposing on the landscape, more a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art created passing through. It had its origins in the great outdoors, but the results were as gallery-bound as the paintings of Turner and Constable.
(1)标上所有段落序号，本文共7段。
(2)画出所有名词短语：[A] a long walk 和the artists. [B] a kind of landscape-oriented light conceptual art. [C] people和 the English landscape painting tradition. [D] the elegance of the British land art. [E] the ordinary side of the British land art. [F] a romantic escape into the Scottish outdoors. [G] images from different parts of the same photograph.
(3)41至45的人名分别出现在文中的四、四、五、六、七段，基本符合题文同序的原则，已加粗显示。通过匹配发现D选项中的represents the elegance和第四段41.Stone Circle所在句的represents the elegant…form一致。所以41答案为D。E选项中的ordinary side和42. Olaf Street Study所在句的the commonplaceness是同义词，所以42答案为E。F选项的images from different parts of the same photograph和43. Across the Park所在句的images that turn out to be different parts of the same photograph一致，所以43题答案为F。C选项的reminds people of the English landscape painting tradition和44. Towards Avebury所在句的evokes a tradition of English landscape painting一致，remind sb of =evoke，使某人想起，唤起。所以44答案为C。A选择中的a long walk和45. Seven Days 所在句的an epic walk一致，taken on和took一致，所以45题答案为A。
答案如下：41.D 42.E 43.F 44. C 45.A
