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P7

In the early twentieth century, small magazines and the innovative graphics used on them created the face of the avant-guard. It was a look that signaled progressive ideas and unconventionality because it dispensed with the cardinal rule of graphic design: to take an idea and make it visually clear, concise, and instantly understood. Instead, graphics produced by avant guard artists exclusively for the avant-guard (as opposed to their advertising work) were usually difficult to decipher, ambiguous, or nonsensical. This overturning of convention, this assailing of standard graphic and typographic formats, was part of a search for intellectual freedom. The impulse toward liberation enabled avant-guardists to see with fresh eyes untried possibilities for arranging and relating words and images on paper.

1. According to the passage, the primary purpose of conventional graphic design is to

A. render unpopular ideas palatable to a wider audience

B. capture readers’ attention with bold fonts

C. communicate nonsensical notions to a wide public

D. communicate ideas as efficiently and unambiguously as possible

E. introduce previously unknown ideas to the general public

For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

2. According to the passage, avant-guard artists of the early twentieth-century created ambiguous or nonsensical graphics as part of an attempt to

A. expand the potential for expression through visual art

B. compete with advertisements for reader’s attention

C. encourage the expansion of small magazines

P7

1

In the early twentieth century, small magazines and the innovative graphics used on them created the face of the avant-guard.

二十世纪早期，小杂志及其刊载的新式 graphics 塑造了先锋派的面相。

(关于 graphics，我就不乱翻了，超出能力范围。)

2

It was a look that signaled progressive ideas and unconventionality because it dispensed with the cardinal rule of graphic design: to take an idea and make it visually clear, concise, and instantly understood.

这是一种预示了进步理念和反传统的风格，因为它摆脱了平面设计的首要原则：抓住一个概念，令它在视觉上清楚，简洁，一望而知。

(signal 通过发信号告知，向 … 发信号

dispense with somebody / something 摆脱某人 / 某事物，用不着。dispense 分配，分发)

3

Instead, graphics produced by avant guard artists exclusively for the avant-guard (as opposed to their advertising work) were usually difficult to decipher, ambiguous, or nonsensical.

不同的是，先锋派艺术家只为先锋艺术创作的 graphics (不同于他们的广告作品)往往难以解读，不确定，或无特定意义。

4

This overturning of convention, this assailing of standard graphic and typographic formats, was part of a search for intellectual freedom.

这种对传统的颠覆，对标准绘图及印刷格式的攻击，是某种对智识自由的探索的一部分。

5

The impulse toward liberation enabled avant-guardists to see with fresh eyes untried possibilities for arranging and relating words and images on paper.

渴求解放的冲动让先锋派们通过新视角，把语言的文字在纸上组合，看到各种未体验过的可能。

(untried 未经测试的，未体验过的，未证明过的)

1. According to the passage, the primary purpose of conventional graphic design is to

A. render unpopular ideas palatable to a wider audience

B. capture readers’ attention with bold fonts

C. communicate nonsensical notions to a wide public

D. communicate ideas as efficiently and unambiguously as possible

E. introduce previously unknown ideas to the general public

选 D

根据句 2：

…… cardinal rule of graphic design: to take an idea and make it visually clear, concise, and instantly understood.

For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

2. According to the passage, avant-guard artists of the early twentieth-century created ambiguous or nonsensical graphics as part of an attempt to

A. expand the potential for expression through visual art

B. compete with advertisements for reader’s attention

C. encourage the expansion of small magazines

选 A

问二十世纪早期的先锋派艺术家们创造出一些，意义模糊或无明确意义的图像，为了?

A 正确。

根据句 4：

This overturning of convention, this assailing of standard graphic and typographic formats, was part of a search for intellectual freedom.

B 为了跟广告竞争观众的注意力。没吃药选项。

C 为了鼓励小杂志扩大影响。下一段。

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