Mock Test # 1 Reading Passage 3

Questions 27-30

Questions 27-30

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
27. 
What is the writer’s main point in the first paragraph?

28. What public view about artists was shared by the French and the English?

29. What does the writer mean by “the handwriting on the wall” in the second line of paragraph 4?

30. What was the result of the widespread availability of photographs to the middle classes?

Questions 31-34

Complete the summary of Paragraph 3 using the list of words, A-G, below.
Write your answers in boxes 31-34

 Camera art

In the early days of photography, opinions on its future were 31  ..............., but three clear views emerged. A large number of artists and ordinary people saw photographs as 32  ......... to  paintings because of the way they were produced. Another popular view was that photographs could have a role to play in the art world, despite the photographer being less 33 ........... Finally, a smaller number of people suspected that the impact of photography on art and society could be 34 ........
A) inventive                   B) similar              C) beneficial
D) next                            E) mixed                F) justified
G) inferior
Q 31.

Q 32.

Q 33.

Q 34.

Questions 35-40

Look at the following statements and the list of people, A-E, below.
Match each statement with the correct person.

35. He claimed that photography would make paintings more realistic. 

36. He highlighted the limitations and deceptions of the  camera.

37. He documented his production of artwork by photographing his works.

38. He noted the potential for photography to enrich artistic talent.

39. He based some of the scenes in his paintings on photographs.

40. He felt photography was part of the trend towards greater mechanisation. 

A.  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
B.  Francis Wey
C.  Charles Baudelaire
D.  Eugene Delacroix
E.  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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