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The Museum of Contemporary(当代的) Art (MOCA. has started a new series of programs, known as "Art Makes Good Business." It is designed to educate company managers about why art makes good business and how to take full advantage of it.
The event is open to new and current corporate(企业法人的) members of MOCA. An understanding and appreciation of art is becoming a must in today’s business world. Art can be a valuable tool for seeking new ways to communicate with customers and raising public awareness of your company’s role in the community.
During the coming months the series will look into the relationship between art, business and community. The series will cover how to understand modern art and how art can help improve a company’s image. Art Makes Good Business speakers will include leaders from the business and art worlds. Bookings are required. Space is limited. For more information call 305-893-6211 or visit www. momanomi.org.

A. to become leaders in business and art worlds
B. to co-operate with other members of MOCA
C. the new ways of communication between people
D. about the relationship between art, business and community

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The Museum of Contemporary(当代的) Art (MOCA. has started a new series of programs, known as "Art Makes Good Business." It is designed to educate company managers about why art makes good business and how to take full advantage of it.
The event is open to new and current corporate(企业法人的) members of MOCA. An understanding and appreciation of art is becoming a must in today’s business world. Art can be a valuable tool for seeking new ways to communicate with customers and raising public awareness of your company’s role in the community.
During the coming months the series will look into the relationship between art, business and community. The series will cover how to understand modern art and how art can help improve a company’s image. Art Makes Good Business speakers will include leaders from the business and art worlds. Bookings are required. Space is limited. For more information call 305-893-6211 or visit www. momanomi.org.

A. the management of business by artists
B. the role of art in improving business
C. the education of modern artists
D. the way to design art programs

[单项选择]The painter Les Quinones, whose graffiti art has been exhibited in New York galleries, has also painted outdoor murals in various Manhattan neighborhoods（　）.
A. sold
B. shown
C. kept
D. praised

[填空题]The Empire State Building has 103 floors, 1860 stairs, 73 elevators, 5 entrances, and 6,500 windows in total.

[单项选择]"Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk. The poles are clear enough, but the middle tends to blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930’s for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music--folk themes--in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different one: he took a popular genre-bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of nineteenth-century opera) and, without altering its fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. This remains one of the greatest achievements in music, and one that cannot be fully appreciated without recognizing the essential trashiness of the genre.
As an example of such a transmutation, consider what Verdi ma
A. a survey of drama music.
B. about the elements in popular music.
C. a review of popular art.
D. about dramatic economy and effectiveness.

[简答题]Do you think art is something that has no meaning and no purpose at all Why or why not

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No artist has affected modern art more than Pablo Picasso. The thousands of masterpieces he created changed the way people thought about art. Picasso was perhaps the most talented and successful artist who ever lived.
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in a small town on the southern coast of Spain. His father was a painter who taught art. Picasso showed exceptional talent at an early age and, by the time he was in his teens, painted better than his father or any of the local art teachers. At sixteen, Picasso was sent to the Royal Academy of Madrid, where students drew from plaster casts and copied works of the old masters. Picasso felt these assignments were pointless and began to work on his own. Picasso’s father soon became angry with his son’s rebellious behavior, long hair, and strange clothes. He believed that Picasso was wasting talent and scolded him, "Why don’t you cut your hair and paint sensibly"
In 1900, Picasso left for Paris -
A. He was the most successsful artist in history.
B. He had exceptional talent in art.
C. His paintings changed people’s idea about art.
D. He worked continuously.

[单项选择]Email has brought the art of letter writing back to life, but some experts think the resulting spread of bad English does more harm than good.
Email is a form of communication that is changing, for the worse, the way we write and use language, say some communication researchers. It is also dramatically changing the way we interact and build relationships. These are a few of the recently recognized features of email, say experts, that should cause individuals and organizations to rethink the way they use email.
"Email has increased the spread of careless writing habits," says Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics at American University. She says the poor spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure of emails reflect a growing unconcern to the way we write.
Baron argues that we should not forgive and forget the poor writing often shown in emails. "The more we use email and its tasteless writing, the more it becomes the normal way of writing," the professor says.
A. indifferent
B. fair
C. straightforward
D. optimistic