TPO 10 reading Chinese Pottery - 英檢

Paragraph 5：Just as painted designs on Greek pots may seem today to be purely
decorative, whereas in fact they were carefully and precisely worked out so
that at the time, their meaning was clear, so it is with Chinese pots. To
twentieth-century eyes, Chinese pottery may appear merely decorative, yet to
the Chinese the form of each object and its adornment had meaning and
significance. The dragon represented the emperor, and the phoenix, the empress;
the pomegranate indicated fertility, and a pair of fish, happiness; mandarin
ducks stood for wedded bliss; the pine tree, peach, and crane are emblems of
long life; and fish leaping from waves indicated success in the civil service
examinations. Only when European decorative themes were introduced did these
meanings become obscured or even lost.

11. Paragraph 5 suggests which of the following about the decorations on
Chinese pottery?
○ They had more importance for aristocrats than for ordinary citizens.
○ Their significance may have remained clear had the Chinese not come under
foreign influence.
○ They contain some of the same images that appear on Greek pots
○ Their significance is now as clear to twentieth century observers as it
was to the early Chinese.

答案是2
可是我看不太懂選項2那句話要表達的意思.....
怎摸覺得選項2和原文表達的是相反的呢???
可以麻煩幫我分析一下選項二是怎摸表達的嘛???
謝謝~

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