2013年上海高考英語作文評析及范文(3)

Shanghai Museum

201 Renmin Avenue                           

Shanghai, 200003  

Dear Sir or Madam:

My Proposed Location for the Exhibition

I am writing to express my opinion on where to hold the coming art exhibition. I believe that Shanghai Museum is the ideal venue for this event.

To hold the exhibition in a community library may provide easy access for the community’s residents, and therefore a wider range of people might have an opportunity to appreciate art in close proximity. However, the drawbacks of such a location outweigh its benefits. Though convenient for the residents living in or near the community, it may not be easily accessible to all visitors. Also, to have visitors constantly going in and out would disrupt the natural rhythm of community life. Moreover, once associated with a community, the exhibition would very likely lose its prestige and in turn deserve only low ticket prices, thus possibly confining it to a nonprofit event.

In contrast, Shanghai Museum is located in the city center, which makes transportation very convenient. Second, the museum is much better equipped than the average community library to preserve artworks, because they tend to be sensitive to temperature and humidity, and are thus subject to damage. Third, there’s nothing wrong with museums’ making reasonable profits, and visitors are usually willing to shell out a little more money when the exhibition is held in a museum. That said, even reasonably priced admission fees would keep out some visitors, but measures can be taken to mitigate this problem, such as offering discounts to young children and older people. Most important, just as premium coffee is best drunk in an elegant café, so are exquisite paintings best displayed in a proper museum. This is because an aesthetic experience is in fact an organic whole, including the person, the thing, and the context. The context—in this case the museum—is indispensable to our artistic appreciation.

Therefore, I’ve come to the conclusion that while an exhibition in a community library has its place, an exhibition featuring renowned masterpieces is worthy of a more decent venue like Shanghai Museum.

Many thanks.

Yours sincerely,

Wang Min