2015南京理工大学考博英语真题阅读理解精练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 as1910,this was the prevailing condition in the United States.If he came from a nonliterate 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 nouliterate,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, teach table manners.
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With the development of the countermovement against Hollywood, with the efflorescence(全盛)of phot
ography,with Time-Life-Fortune types of reporting and the dead-pan New Yorker 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,withopendoor
the passion for"human documents"in Depression days--a necessary substitute for proletarian art among middle class writers who knew nothing about proletarians,and middleclass readers who needed the shock of verisimilitude(真实)--a new era in American life was ushered in,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 scripts written months before supplemented
fiercestby national polls and surveys which assured the reader that this bobby soxer(少女)did indeed reprent a national norm or a growing trend--replaced the older models.
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introduce是什么意思36.This article is bad on the idea that________.
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A)people today no longer follow models
B)People attach little importance to whoever they follow
C)people generally pattern their lives after models
D)People no longer respect heroes
英语偏旁部首demons37.Stories of the cond generation battling against the limitations of the first were often re-sponsible for______.
A)inspiring literate immigrants
B)frustrating educated immigrants
C)preventing the assimilation of immigrants
D)instilling into immigrants an antagonistic attitude toward their forebears
38.The countermovement against Hollywood was a movement______
A)toward realism
B)toward fantasy
C)against the teaching of morals
D)away from realism
39.The author attributes the change in attitudes since1910to ____
A)a logical evolution of ideas
B)widespread moral decay
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C)the influence of the press
D)a philosophy of plenty
40.The word"distortions"at the end of the2nd ntence in paragraph2is clost in meaning to______.
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A)prentations
B)misinterpretations
C)influences
D)limitations
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