Cave Art in Europe 第14題 - 英檢

14．Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary
of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by
selecting the THREE answer choices that explain the most important
ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary
because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage
or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.

Upper Paleolithic cave paintings in Western Europe are among
humanity’s earliest artistic efforts.
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Answer choices
○Researchers have proposed several different explanations for the
fact that animals were the most common subjects in the cave paintings.
○The art of the cultural period that followed the Upper Paleolithic
ceased to portray large game animals and focused instead on the kinds
of animals that people of that period preferred to hunt.
○Some researchers believe that the paintings found in France provide
more explicit evidence of their symbolic significance than those found
in Spain, southern Africa, and Australia.
○The cave paintings focus on portraying animals without also depicting
the natural environments in which these animals are typically found.
○Some researchers have argued that the cave paintings mostly portrayed
large animals that provided Upper Paleolithic people with meat and
materials.
○Besides cave paintings, Upper Paleolithic people produced several
other kinds of artwork, one of which has been thought to provide evidence
of complex thought.


答案是1.5.6

請問選項4為何不對？它和第3段的前2句很接近。

第3段的前2句是
The subjects of the paintings are mostly animals. The paintings rest
on bare walls, with no backdrops or environmental trappings.




Thank you.

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