48 According to the passage, which of the following is true about the "Dordogne"?
(A) It is an association of painters who served French kings.
(B) It is a place famous for its prehistoric cave paintings.
(C) It is a method used to decorate the palaces in the Renaissance.
(D) It is a country defeated by France in the seventeenth century.

France has had an important role throughout the history of western art which began with the cave painters of the Dordogne, long before their land became a nation. 

法國早在成為一個國家之前，就以Dordogne壁畫在西方藝術史中佔有舉足輕重的角色。

有關文中Dordogne的敘述何者正確？

(B) It is a place famous for its prehistoric cave paintings.

是個有出名的史前洞穴壁畫的地方

(A) It is an association of painters who served French kings.

是一個為法國國王服務的協會>>>早在法國成為國家之前，根本還沒有國王

(C) It is a method used to decorate the palaces in the Renaissance.

是一種文藝復興時期用來裝飾宮殿的技巧>>>遠在法國立國前，還在洞穴時代，沒有文藝復興的宮殿
(D) It is a country defeated by France in the seventeenth century.

是在17世紀被法國打敗的國家>>>遠早於17世紀，不是國家

Wherever you go in France, the country’s artistic heritage is very much in evidence明顯. 

France does have her share of ugly Urban sprawl城市蔓延 and unlovely out-of-town hypermarkets超大型自助商場 but these are eclipsed by her wealth of beautifully restored修復；使重定；使復職 and maintained historic buildings which, together with striking異乎尋常的，驚人的；引人注目 new architecture建築學；建築術, 建築風格 and works of art, are part of the fabric布；織物, 結構 of everyday life.

France has had an important role throughout the history of western art which began with the cave painters of the Dordogne, long before their land became a nation.

From the Renaissance（尤指藝術、文學或音樂的）復興 onward時間, 方向, 繼續向前 French kings invited the finest European painters to decorate their palaces, and Paris became the center of nearly all important artistic developments, whether the artists concerned were French or not.

It was only in the nineteenth century that French painters formed a distinctively 差別,特殊 French movement that was far more influential than the Flemish法蘭德斯語（比利時北部的主要語言）, German and Italian schools of previous以前的，先前 centuries.

The impressionists模仿演員, 印象派畫家 and their successors  radically支援變革、激進 altered改變 the direction of European art, attracting even more foreign artists to Paris.

Since the seventeenth century, when the Academies of painting and sculpture雕塑，雕刻, and architecture were founded, architecture and the visual arts視覺藝術 have been a central concern of the French state.

Today, the Ministry of Culture is housed in the elegant高雅、優雅 seventeenth-century Palais-Royal皇家宮殿, alongside two of the nation’s highest institutions, the Conseil Constitutionnel憲法委员会 and the Conseil d’Etat, exemplifying作為 the belief of Catherine Trautmann, the culture minister from 1997 to 2000, that “culture is at the heart of our democratic system.”

This sentiment思想, 觀點；意見 echoes the aims of her predecessors前任，前輩 who include de Gaulle’s postwa戰後 minister Andre Malraux and Mitterrand’s innovative創新的，革新 and daring有勇氣、大膽 minister, Jack Lang, both of whom wanted to enrich提高、豐富 the lives of ordinary citizens.