北大西门TEXT C In most of the human civilization of which we have any proper records, youth has drawn on either art or life for models, planning to emulate the heroes depicted in epics on the shadow —— play screen or the stage, or tho known human beings, fathers or grandfathers, chiefs or craftsmen, who every characteristic can be studied and imitated. As recently as 1910, this was the prevailing condition in the United States. If he came from a non-literate background, the recent immigrant learned to speak, move, and think like an American by using his eyes and ears on the labor line and in the homes of more acculturated cousins, by watching school children, or by absorbing the standards of the teacher, the foreman, the clerk who rved him in the store. For the literate and the literate children of the non-literate, there was art —— the story of the frustrated artist in the prairie town of the cond generation battling with the limitations of the first. And at a simpler level, there were the Western and Hollywood fairy tales which pointed a moral but did not, as a rule, reach table manners. With the development of the countermovement against Hollywood, with the efflorescence of photography, with Time-Life-Fortune types of reporting and the dead-pan New York manner of describing the life of an old-clothes dealer in a forgotten street or of prenting the "accurate", "checked" details of the lives of people who eminence gave at least a sort of licen to attack them, with the passion for "human documents" in Depression days —— a necessary substitute for proletarian art among middle-class writers who knew nothing about proletarians, and middle-class readers who needed the shock of verisi
militude —— a new era in American life was ushered in. It was the era in which young people imitated neither life nor art nor fairy tale, but instead were prented with models drawn from life with minimal but crucial distortions. Doctored life histories, pod carelessness, "candid" shots of people in their own homes which took hours to arrange, pictures shot from real life to script written months before supplemented by national polls and surveys which assured the reader that this hobby socks did indeed reprent a national norm or a growing trend —— replaced the older models.
43. This article is bad on the idea that ____新手上路注意事项及驾车技巧
A) people today do not look for models to imitate.
B) whom we emulate is not important.
C) people generally pattern their lives after models.教导的近义词
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D) heroes are pasd.
批处理命令 44. Stories of the cond generation battling against the limitation of the first were often responsible for ____
A) inspiring literate immigrants.
B) frustrating educated immigrants.
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C) preventing the assimilation of immigrants.
D) instilling into immigrants an antagonistic attitude toward their forebears.
45. The counter movement against Hollywood was a movement ____
A) toward fantasy.
B) against the teachings of morals.
C) towards realism.
D) away from realism.
46. The author attribute the change in attitude since 1920 to ____
A) a logical evolution of ideas.
B) widespread of moral decay.
C) the influence of the press.
D) a philosophy of plenty.
TEXT D During the holiday I received no letter from Myrtle and when I returned to the town she had gone away. I telephoned each day until she came back, and then she said she was going to a party. I put up with her new tactics patiently. The next time we spent an evening together there was no quarrel. To avoid it I took Myrtle to the cinema. We did not mention Haxby. On the other hand it was impossible to pretend that either of us was happy. Myrtles expression of unhappiness was deepening. Day by day I watched her sink into a bout of despair, and I concluded it was my fault —— had I not concluded it was my fault, the looks Myrtle gave me would rapidly have concluded it for me. The topic of conversation we avoided
above all others was the project of going to America. I curd the tactlessness of Robert and Tom in talking about it in front of her before I had had time to prepare her for it. I felt aggrieved, as one does after doing wrong and being found out. I did not know what to do. When you go to the theatre you e a number of characters caught in a dramatic situation. What happens next? They then everything is changed. My life is different I never have scenes, and I if I do, they are discouragingly n
以后英语ot dramatic. Practically no action aris. And nothing what so ever is changed. My life is not as good as a play. Nothing like it. All I did with my prent situation was try and tide it over. When Myrtle emerged from the deepest blackness of despair —— nobody after all, could remain there definitely —— I tried to comfort her. I gradually unfolded all my plan, including tho for her. She could come to America, too. She was a commercial artist. She could get a job and our relationship could continue as it was. And I will not swear that I did not think:" And in America she might even succeed in marrying me." It produced no effect. She began to drink more. She began to go to parties very frequently; it was very soon clear that she had decided to e less of her. I do not blame Myrtle. Had I been in her place I would have tried to do the same thing. Being in my place I tried to prevent her. I knew what sort of parties she was going to: they were parties at which Haxby was prent. We began to wrangle over going out with each other. She was never free at the times I suggested. Sometimes, usually on a Saturday night, she first arranged to meet me and then changed her mind. I called that rubbing it in a little too far. But her behavior, I repeat, perfectly nsible. By eing less of me she stood a chance of finding somebody el, or of making me jealous, or of both. Either way she could not lo.
47. When Myrtle was avoiding the author he ____
A) saw through her plan and behave calmly.
女性纹身 B) became angry and could not put her out of his mind.
C) was worried and uncomprehending.
D) decided that he could not bear the way she treated him.
48. The author felt guilty and angry becau ____
A) his friends had discovered that he had not told Myrtle anything.
B) Tom and Robert had told Myrtle about their plans.
C) Myrtle had found out their plans when Tom and Robert talked.
D) he had told Myrtle their plans before Tom and Robert mentioned them.
49. The author complains that his life was not like a play in which ____
A) the characters solve their problems by violence.
B) the violence that follows action solves their problems.
C) the action that follows quarrels solves their problems.
D) the characters solved their problems in spite of violence.
50. The real reason why Myrtle was angry and upt was that ____
A) she had never wanted to go to America with the author.
B) the author would not agree to take her as his wife.
C) she did not want him to go to America with his enemies.
D) she did not want to be felt behind in America.
