Which of the following best explains the author’s use of the word “counterpoint” in referr

It is implied _____ was least influenced by the contemporary art of Frence.

A.Sir John Lavery

B.Sir William Orpen

C.Beatrice Elvery

D.Se Keating

to an art that evokes the ruggedness and roots of an Irish Celtic past. At the turn of the twentieth century Irish painters, including notables Walter Frederick Osborne and Sir William Orpen, looked elsewhere for influence. Osborne’s exposure to “plein air” painting deeply impacted his stylistic development; and Orpen allied himself with a group of English artists, while at the same time participated in the French avant-garde experiment, both as painter and teacher. However, nationalist energies were beginning to coalesce (接合)，reviving interest in Irish culture-including Irish visual arts. Beatrice Elvery’s (1907), a landmark achievement, merged the devotional simplicity of fifteenth-century Italian painting with the iconography (肖像画法) of Ireland’s Celtic past, linking the history of Irish Catholicism with the still-nascet (初生的) Irish republic. And, although also captivated by the French plein air school, Sir John Lavery invoked the mythology of his native land for a 1928 commission to paint the central figure for the bank note of the new Irish Free State. Lavery chose as this figure, with her arm on a Celtic harp (竖琴)，the national symbol of independent Ireland. In Irish painting from about 1910, memories of Edwardian romanticism coexisted with a new sense of realism,exemplified by the paintings of Paul Henry and Se Keating, a student of Orpen’s. realism also crept into the work of Edwardians Lavery and Orpen, both of whom made paintings depicting World WarⅠ,Lavery with a distanced Victorian nobility, Orpen closer to the front, revealing a more sinister and realistic vision. Meanwhile, counterpoint to the Edwardians and realists came Jack B. Yeats, whose travels throughout the rugged and more authentically Irish West led him to depict subjects ranging from street scenes in Dublin to boxing matches and funerals. Fusing close observations of Irish life and icons with an Irish identity in a new way, Yeats changed the face of Irish painting and became the most important Irishartist of his century. Which of the following art most probably exerted the greatest influence on Irish painting in the 19th century?

A.British lyrical tradition

B.French avant-garde experiment

C.notionalist energies

D.Italian painting

Ten-year-old children likely to become offenders are usually ___.

A.spoilt children from small families.

B.bright children in a poor family.

C.dull children with many brothers and sisters.

D.children whose parents have acquired wealth dishonestly.

What is the outcome result of putting young offenders into detention centers?

A.They become more violent

B.They receive useful training

C.They become used to institutions

D.They turn against society

t risk of growing up to be persistent offenders, what are we doing with the information? Just about the last thing that we should do is to wait until their troubles have escalated in adolescence and then attack them with the provisions of the new Criminal Justice Bill. If this bill becomes law, magistrates will have the power to impose residential care orders. More young people will be drawn into institutional life when all the evidence shows that this worsens rather than improves their prospects. The introduction of short sharp shocks in detention centers will simply give more young people a taste of something else they don’t need; the whole regime of detention centers is one of toughening delinquents, and if you want to train someone to be anti-establishment, “I can’t think of a better way to do it,” says the writer of this report. The Cambridge Institute of Criminology comes up with five key factors that are likely to make for delinquency: a low income family a large family, parents deemed by social workers to be bad at raising children, parents who themselves have a criminal record, and low intelligence in the child. Not surprisingly, the factors tend to overlap. Of the 63 boys in the sample who had at least three of them when they were ten, half became juvenile delinquents—compared with only a fifth of the sample as a whole. Three more factors make the prediction more accurate: being judged troublesome by teachers at the age of ten, having a father with at least two criminal convictions and having another member of the family with a criminal record. Of the 35 men who had at least two of these factors in their background 18 became persistent delinquents and 8 more were in trouble with the law. Among those key factors, far and away the most important was having a parent with a criminal record, even if that had been acquired in the distant past, even though very few parents did other than condemn delinquent behavior in their children. The role of the schools emerges as extremely important. The most reliable prediction of all on the futures of boys came from teachers’ ratings of how troublesome they were at the age of ten. If the information is there in the classroom there must be a response that brings more attention to those troublesome children: a search for things to give them credit for other than academic achievement, a refusal to allow them to go on playing truant, and a fostering of ambition and opportunity which should start early in their school careers. According to the author, delinquency should be tackled ___.

A.before adolescence

B.during institutional treatment

C.during adolescence

D.when the problem becomes acute

Which of the following is religion according to the passage?

A.Performance of human beings.

B.Buddha, monotheism and some tribal tradition.

C.Practice separated from culture.

D.All the above.

Which of the following is not true?

A.It is believed by some that religion should be what it ought to be.

B.“The path of enlightenment” is a definition that the author doesn’t agree to.

C.According to the author, the committed believers define religion improperly.

D.The author doesn’t speak in favor of the definition of “the sacred”.

According to the passage what people generally consider religion to be?

A.Fantastic observance

B.Spiritual practice

C.Individual observance of tradition

D.A complex of activities

What does the word “observance” probably convey in Para. 1?

A.notice

B.watching

C.conformity

D.experience

Which of the following titles will be best suit the passage?

A.A New Direction for Medical Research

B.The Navaho Indians’ Sandpainting

C.The Process of Sandpainting Creation

D.The Navaho Indians’ Medical History