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Question 1-9Often enough the craft worker’s place of employment in ancient Greece was set inrural isolation. Potter, for instance, found it convenient to locate their workshops neartheir source of clay, regardless of its relation to the center of settlement, At Corinth andline Athens, however, two of the best-known potters’ quarters were situated on the cities’outskirts, and potters and makers of terra-cotta figurines were also established well withinthe city of Athens itself. The techniques of pottery manufacture had evolved well beforethe Greek period, but marked stylistic developments occurred in shape and in decoration,for example, in the interplay of black and other glazes with the red surface of the fired pot.Athenian black-figure and red-figure decoration, which emphasized human figures ratherthan animal images, was adopted between 630 and 530 B.C.；its distinctive color and lusterwere the result of the skillful adjustments of the kiln’s temperature during an extendedthree-stage period if firing the clayware. Whether it was the potters or the vase-painterswho initiated changes in firing is unclear; the functions of making and decorating wereusually divided between them, but neither group can have been so specialized the theydid not share in the concerns of the other.The broad utility of terra-cotta was such that workers in clay could generally afford toConfine themselves to either decorated ware and housewares like cooking pots and storageJars or building materials like roof tiles and drainpipes. Some sixth-and fifth-century B.C.Athenian pottery establishments are known to have concentrated on a limited range of fineware, but a rural pottery establishment on the island of Thasos produced many types ofpottery and roof tiles too, presumably to meet local demand. Molds were used to createparticular effects for some products, such as relief-decorated vessels and figurines; forother products such as roof tiles, which were needed in some quantity, they were used tofacilitate mass production. There were also a number of poor-quality figurines and painted(25) pots produced in quantity by easy, inexpensive means- as numerous featureless statuettes and unattractive cases testify.
【題組】1. The passage mainly discusses ancient Greek pottery and its
(A) production techniques
(B) similarity to other crafts
(C) unusual materials
(D) resemblance to earlier pottery

參考答案

答案：A
難度：簡單0.785714
統計：A(22),B(0),C(1),D(4),E(0)