Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, c, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The Art World

One of the major problems in the art world is how to distinguish and promote an artist. In effect, a market must be created for an artist to be successful. The practice of signing and numbering individual prints was introduced by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the nineteenth-century artist best known for the painting of his mother, called "Arrangement in Grey and Black", but known to most of US as "Whistler's Mother". Whistler's brother-in-law, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, a less well-known artist, had speculated that collectors might find prints more attractive if they knew that there were only a limited number of copies produced. By signing the work in pencil, an artist could guarantee and personalize each print.

As soon as Whistler and Haden began the practice of signing and numbering their prints, thefr work began to increase in value. When other artists noticed that the signed prints commanded higher prices, they began copying the procedure.

Although most prints are signed on the right-hand side in the margin below the image, the placement of the signature is a matter of personal choice. Indeed, prints have been signed within image, in any of the margins, or even on the reverse side of the 'print. Wherever the artist elects to sign it, a signed print is still valued above an unsigned one, even in the same edition.

Which of the following would be a better title for the passage?

A. Whistler's Mother

B. Whistler's Greatest Works

C. The Practice of Signing Prints

D. Copying Limited Edition Prints

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án C.

Keywords: better title for the passage

Clue: “The practice of signing and numbering individual prints was introduced by James Abbott McNeil Whistler”; Thông lệ ký và đánh số vào các bản vẽ được khởi xướng bởi James Whisler.

Phân tích: Từ sign và print được lặp đi lặp lại nhiều lần trong bài và cả bài nói về việc hai họa sĩ đã đi đến sáng kiến ký tên vào các bản vẽ của mình như thế nào, giá trị tranh của họ tăng lên nhờ việc đó ra sao, và vị trí các chữ ký thường ở đâu nên đáp án chính xác là C. The Practice of Signing Prints.

Các đáp án còn lại nói về những chủ đề không liên quan tới chủ đề bài đọc.

A. Whistler's Mother: Mẹ của Whisler

B. Whistler's Greatest Works: Các tác phẩm vĩ đại nhất của Whisler

D. Copying Limited Edition Prints: Sao chép các ấn bản in có giới hạn.