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　　The presence of work themes in the painting of the Impressionist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has until recently been largely discounted, despite the body of Impressionist works that continued the tradition, initiated by Courbet and Millet and developed through the 1880s by Breton, Bastien-Lepage, Pissaro, and Berthe Morisot, of representing rural labor, and notwithstanding the significant body of Impressionist work—including that of Degas, Caillebotte, and Morisot—representing urban or suburban labor. The notion of Impressionism as concerned primarily with the representation of leisure has less to do, however, with the subject matter of the paintings than with the acceptance of the view, widely held in nineteenth-century France, that considered peasants performing physically demanding rural labor as the epitome of work. The numerous Impressionist representations of activities (often those of women) that we might classify as work—a woman serving beer in a cafe, many paintings by Degas of the ballet (a physically demanding activity by any standard)—were instead classified as representations of leisure by those who held this view.
　　1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
　　A. propose a new theory about the techniques used to represent work themes in Impressionist painting
　　B. expand the meaning of the term “work” as it applies to painting
　　C. note that work themes were often overlooked in Impressionist painting and suggest a reason why
　　D. provide insight into why certain activities were not considered work in the late nineteenth century
　　E. provide specific examples of rural work themes in Impressionist painting and explain the significance of such themes

　　文章目的题
　　解析：这篇文章一句话表明work themes在之前被忽视了，然后后文一直在解释原因——到底是因为subject matter还是因为view。
　　2. The “tradition” refers to the
　　A. view that work themes are of little importance in Impressionist painting
　　B. representation of leisure
　　C. representation of urban and suburban labor
　　D. representation of rural labor
　　E. works of Degas, Caillebotte, and Morisot
　　指代题
　　解析：tradition指的是后面的initiated by Courbet and Millet and developed through the 1880s by Breton, Bastien-Lepage, Pissaro, and Berthe Morisot, of representing rural labor，所以提炼关键词是rural labor。
　　3. With which of the following statements about Impressionist painting would the author of the passage be most likely to agree?
　　A. The view that Impressionist painting is concerned primarily with themes of leisure is based in part on a limited definition of what constitutes work.
　　B. Many Impressionist paintings once regarded as representing work themes are now viewed as being concerned primarily with the representation of leisure.
　　C. Most of the Impressionist paintings that treat work themes depict activities representing urban and suburban labor.
　　D. Although themes of work appear frequently in Impressionist paintings, these themes are limited to the traditional representations of work as rural physical labor.
　　E. Notwithstanding the large body of Impressionist painting in which work themes are present, the notion that Impressionist paintings are primarily about leisure activities is essentially correct.
　　细节题
　　解析：对应文章后一句话，The numerous Impressionist representations of activities (often those of women) that we might classify as work—a woman serving beer in a cafe, many paintings by Degas of the ballet (a physically demanding activity by any standard)—were instead classified as representations of leisure by those who held this view. 强调work和leisure的定义问题。