Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
【真题来源:2019年6月大学英语四级真题(第二套)Part Ⅲ,Section C,第46-50题】
Passage One
Most kids grow up learning they cannot draw on the walls. But it might be time to unlearn that training—this summer, group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor's Island.
The project is called Writing On It All, and it's a participatory writing project and artistic experiment that has happened on Governor's Island every summer since 2013.
“Most of the participants are people who are just walking by or are on the island for other reasons, or they just kind of happen to be there,” Alexandra Chasin, artistic director of Writing On It All,tells Smithsonian.com.
The 2016 season runs through June 26 and features sessions facilitated by everyone from dancers to domestic workers. Each session has a theme, and participants are given a variety of materials and prompts and asked to cover surfaces with their thoughts and art. This year, the programs range from one that turns the house into a collaborative essay to one that explores the meaning of exile.
Governor's Island is a national historic landmark district long used for military purposes. Now known as “New York's shared space for art and play,” the island, which lies between Manhattan and Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay, is closed to cars but open to summer tourists who flck for festivals, picnics, adventures, as well as these “legal graffiti(涂鸦)” Sessions.
The notes and art scribbled(涂画) on the walls are an experiment in self-expression. So far, participants have ranged in age from 2 to 85. Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.
“One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls,” says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it.“People do beautiful work and leave beautiful messages.”
What does the project Writing On It All invite people to do?
过题干中的专有名词Writing on On It All我们很快就可以定位到文章第二段,但理解后我们发现,该专有词汇指的是第一段中的project,所以我们只要理解清楚第一段中有关项目的内容即可作答,“...to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor's Island.”,即在一所老房子外面涂鸦,比对选项,只有C选项符合文意。
What do we learn about the participants in the project?
仔细理解题干,其实在对参与者的组成进行提问,依据做题顺序以及“participants”这一关键词,我们定位到了第三段“Most of the participants are people who are just walking by ..., or they just kind of happen to be there”,由此可知这些人只是偶然路过,D选项中的passers-by正好对应了原文表达的意思。
What did the project participants do during the 2016 season?
题干中存在很明显的定位词“2016”,所以我们可以通过这一信息快速定位到第四段,该段介绍了2016年季的相关内容:每期都有一个主题,参与者将自己的想法与对艺术的理解全都用化的形式展现在墙面上,“...cover surfaces with their thoughts and art”与“expressed their thoughts in graffiti”同义替换,“each session has a theme”与“on the theme of each session”几近原文复现,所以B选项是最佳答案。
What kind of place is Governor's Island?
题干中的大写词汇是我们定位最直观的定位词,尽管该岛第一段就出现过,但依据做题的顺序原则,我们的目光应重点集中在第五段,根据本段对Governor's Island的介绍,“... Now known as “New York's shared space for art and play,” the island, which lies between Manhattan and Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay, is closed to cars but open to summer tourists who flock for festivals, picnics, adventures...”, 即该岛面向来游玩探险的游客,所以,我们发现A选项是对以上信息的概括总结。
What does Chasin say about the project?
根据人名和做题顺序,最后两段中有关该人物的观点值得我们注意,整合关键信息:“人们完成的美丽的艺术品也传递了一些美好的信息......”,由此答案选择D选项。