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Throughout the history of the arts， the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select， artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie， one of the new American realists， continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole， a romanticist， had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature， Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings， there is no particular change in emotions， and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography to help both the eyes and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides， all art begs the age-old question： What is real？ Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects， the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes， and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up， understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present， Eastern or Western， the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art， and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

1. What does the underlined word “poetry” in paragraph 1 probably mean？

A. An object for artistic creation.

B. A collection of poems.

C. An unusual quality.

D. A natural scene.

2. Why can Leslies paintings considered to be extraordinary？

A. They are close in style to works in ancient times.

B. They look like works by 19th-century painters.

C. They depend heavily on color photography.

D. They are about common things in life.

3. What is the authors opinion of artistic reality？

A. It will not be found in future works of art.

B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.endprint

C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D. It is rare in modern works of art.

4. What does the author think of the arts according to the last paragraph？

A. They express peoples curiosity about the past.

B. They are considered important for variety in form.

C. They make people interested in everyday experience.

D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

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One of the best things you can possibly do is to start your own club. Its great fun especially if you are the sort of person who feels theres never anything to do during the school holidays.

The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. Pets， clothes， pop music or dancing groups， sports， making things？ The list is endless.

Thats easy. All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same thing as you.

You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. Thatll keep you busy for ages.

At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown-ups or little/big brothers or sisters！ The best clubs are always secret！

Now you have just about everything you need， except membership cards. These are very important and again you can spend a lot of time making them. Why not leave some space for a photo of yourself？ That will make the membership card really look like it.

So there you are， get clubbing！ Once you get started youll think of loads of more interesting things to do！

A. Enjoy your own club！

B. What are you interested in？

C. Invite a designer to join you.

D. Summer vacation is just around the corner.

E. Then you need to pick a name for your club.

F. Use a bright thick pen to make a special design.

G. Next you need some friends to be in your club with you.

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