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GRE阅读题目解析:美国十九世纪女性小说

2017-07-25 09:13:00来源:网络

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  1

  Although vastly popular during its time, much nineteenth-century women’s fiction in the United States went unread by the twentieth-century educated elite, who were taught to ignore it as didactic.

  尽管曾红极一时,但二十世纪受过良好教育的精英阶层,没读过几本美国十九世纪女性创作的小说,他们被告知这些书中充满说教,不值一读。

  2

  However, American literature has a tradition of didacticism going back to its Puritan roots, shifting over time from sermons and poetic transcripts into novels, which proved to be perfect vehicles for conveying social values.

  然而,美国文学素有启蒙主义传统,可以追溯至它的清教徒源头,时过境迁,这种传统从布道和诗抄本进入了小说,后者被证明是传播社会价值的完美载体。

  3

  In the nineteenth century, critics reviled Poe for neglecting to conclude his stories with pithy moral tags, while Longfellow was canonized for his didactic verse.

  十九世纪的评论家们大骂 P(坡老师艾伦),因为他不愿意给故事打上简短的道德标签,相反盛赞 L (朗费罗)的训诫诗。

  (pithy 简洁有力的,(多)髓的

  canonize 宣布 … 为圣徒,为 … 封圣)

  4

  Although rhetorical changes favoring the anti-didactic can be detected as nineteenth-century American transformed itself into a secular society, it was twentieth-century criticism, which placed aesthetic value above everything else, that had no place in its doctrine for the didacticism of others.

  尽管我们知道,修辞意义上的偏好转向反道德训诫,是因为十九世纪的美国转型进入了世俗社会,但把美学价值置于其他所有价值之上,在学术原则中排除了启蒙主义的,却是二十世纪的文学批评。

  1. Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?

  A. It explains why the fiction mentioned in the first sentence was not popular in the twentieth century.

  B. It assists in drawing a contrast between nineteenth-century and twentieth-century critics.

  C. It provides an example of how twentieth – century readers were taught to ignore certain literature.

  D. It questions the usefulness of a particular distinction between Poe and Longfellow made by critics.

  E. It explains why Poe’s stories were more popular than Longfellow’s verse during the nineteenth century.

  选 B

  文章第一句告诉我们,二十世纪的评论家瞧不上十九世纪女性作家的小说,认为充满了道德训诫。

  (道德训诫是啥呢,说白了就是老要告诉你该怎么做,什么是对的,为了训诫而训诫有时确实非常可笑,比如麦兜的妈妈说:从前有个小孩不听话,后来他死了。如果所有故事都说你不孝敬父母不忠君爱国,就没有好下场,肯定你也烦的不行。现在能够理解为什么二十世纪的高知阶层不读那些十九世纪小说了吧。)

  文章第三句又说,十九世纪的文学批评家们,就喜欢道德训诫,爱伦坡不愿意写训诫故事,他们就骂人家,朗费罗符合他们的胃口,他们就夸。

  所以,作者写第三句的作用是,辅助构成了十九世纪和二十世纪评论家们,在品味上的一种对比。

  2. In the context in which it appears, “conveying” most nearly means

  A. carrying

  B. transferring

  C. granting

  D. imparting

  E. projecting

  选 D

  carry 携带,搬运,传送,传导

  transfer 转移,转让,转录,转存,调任

  grant 同意,允许,承认

  impart 将(某性质)赋予某事物,将(情况)告知某人,透露某事物

  project 投射(光线等),发射或投掷,突出,伸出

  这种题,你让我讲,我也没啥好讲的,只能给你看一段词典释义

  convey

  【MWC】

  1 obsolete : LEAD, CONDUCT

  2 a : to bear from one place to another especially : to move in a continuous stream or mass b : to impart or communicate by statement, suggestion, gesture, or appearancec (1) archaic : STEAL (2) obsolete : to carry away secretly d : to transfer or deliver (as property) to another especially by a sealed writing e : to cause to pass from one place or person to another

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