Museums Of Fine Art And Their Public IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Museums Of Fine Art And Their Public’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1 – 14. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
Museums Of Fine Art And Their Public
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B | This might be explained by the fact that the novel has evolved precisely because of technological developments that made it possible to print out huge numbers of texts | Paragraph B; Line 2 |
| 2 | H | With novels, the reader attends mainly to the meaning of words rather than the way they are printed on the page, | Paragraph B;
Line 4 |
| 3 | L | artists seemed perfectly content to assign the reproduction of their creations to their workshop apprentices as regular ‘bread and butter’ work. | Paragraph C;
Line 2 |
| 4 | G | today the task of reproducing pictures is incomparably more simple and reliable, with reprographic techniques that allow the production of high-quality prints made exactly to the original scale, with faithful colour values, | Paragraph C;
Line 3 |
| 5 | D | Unfortunately, this seems to place severe limitations on the kind of experience offered to visitors. | Paragraph D; Last line |
| 6 | C | it is therefore difficult not to be impressed by one’s own relative ‘worthlessness’ in such an environment. | Paragraph E;
Last line |
| 7 | D | Evidently, nothing the viewer thinks about the work is going to alter that value, and so today’s viewer is deterred from trying to extend that spontaneous, immediate, self-reliant kind of reading which would originally have met the work. | Paragraph F;
Last line |
| 8 | A | The visitor may then be struck by the strangeness of seeing such diverse paintings, drawings and sculptures brought together in an environment for which they were not originally created. This ‘displacement effect’ is further heightened by the sheer volume of exhibits. | Paragraph G;
Lines 1 – 2 |
| 9 | D | A fundamental difference between paintings and other art forms is that there is no prescribed time over which a painting is viewed | Paragraph H;
Line 2 |
| 10 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
| 11 | NO | This is in perfect harmony with the museum’s function, | Paragraph I;
Line 2 |
| 12 | YES | The displays of art museums serve as a warning of what critical practices can emerge when spontaneous criticism is suppressed. | Paragraph J;
Line 1 |
| 13 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
| 14 | NO | Unfortunately, that may be too much to ask from those who seek to maintain and control the art establishment. | Paragraph J;
Last line |
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