disturb造句10月12日GRE阅读真题回忆
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1. 短阅读(精讲精炼Mock 4 ction2)
Biologist know that some marine algae can create clouds by producing the gas dimethylsulphide (DMS), which reacts with oxygen in air above the a to form solid particles. The particles provide a surface on which water vapor can conden to form clouds. Lovelock contends that this process is part of global climatic-control system. According to Lovelock, Earth acts like a super organism, with all its biological and physical systems cooperating to keep it healthy. He hypothesized that warmer conditions increa algal activity and DMS output, eding more clouds, which cool the planet by blocking out the Sun. Then, as the climate cools, algal activity and DMS level decrea and the cycle continues. In respon to biologists who question how organisms presumably working for their own lfish ends could have evolved to behave in a way that benefits not only the plan
maldiveset but the organisms as well, cooling benefits the algae, which remain at the ocean surface, becau it allows the cooled upper layers of the ocean to sink, and then the circulating water carries nutrients upward from the depths below. Algae may also benefit from nitrogen raining down from clouds they have helped to form.
9. According to the passage, which of the following occurs as a result of cooling in the
pink visualupper layers of the ocean?
A. The concentration of oxygen in the air above the ocean’s surface decreas.
B. The concentration of DMS in the air above the ocean’s surface increas.
myhusbandC. The nutrient supply at the surface of the ocean is replenished.
mp3 playerD. Cloud formation increas over the ocean.
E. Marine algae make more efficient u of nutrients.
10. Which of the following is most similar to the role played by marine algae in the
global climate control system propod by Lovelock?
A. A fan that continually replaces stale air in a room with fresh air from outside.
B. A thermostat that automatically controls an air-conditioning system.
C. An insulating blanket that retains heat.
D. A filter ud to purify water.gasturbine
E. A dehumidifier that constantly removes moisture from the air in a room.
11. The passage mentions the possible benefit to algae of nitrogen falling down in the
rain most likely in order to
A. provide support for Lovelock’s respon to an objection mentioned in the passage
B. suggest that the climatic effects of DMS production have been underestimated
C. acknowledge that Lovelock’s hypothesis is bad in part on speculation
D. demonstrate that DMS production alters the planet in more than one way
E. asrt that algae are the sole beneficiaries of DMS production
2. 长阅读(直通车Part IV: Long passages passage 4)
“Blues is for singing,” writes folk musicologist Paul Oliver, and “is not a form of folk song
that stands up particularly well when written down.” A poet who wants to write blues can attempt
to avoid this problem by poeticizing the form—but literary blues tend to read like bad poetry rather than like refined folk song. For Oliver, the true spirit of the blues inevitably eludes the lf-conscious imitator. However, Langston Hughes, the first writer to grapple with the difficulties of blue poetry, in fact succeeded in producing poems that capture the quality of genuine, performed blues while remaining effective as poems. In inventing blues poetry, Hughes solved two problems: first, how to write blues lyrics in such a way that they work on the printed page, and cond, how to exploit the blues form poetically w
ithout losing all n of authenticity.
There are many styles of blues, but the distinction of importance to Hughes is between the genres referred to as “folk blues” and “classic blues.” Folk blues and classic blues are distinguished from one another by differences in performers (local talents versus touring professionals), patronage (local community versus mass audience), creation (improvid versus compod), and transmission (oralversus written). It has been a commonplace among critics that Hughes adopted the classic blues as the primary model for his blues poetry, and that he writes his best blues poetry when he tries least to imitate the folk blues. In this view, Hughes’ attempts to imitate the folk blues are too lf-conscious, too determined to romanticize the African American experience, too intent on reproducing what he takes to be the quaint humor and naïve simplicity of the folk blues to be successful.
But a more realistic view is that by conveying his perceptions as a folk artist ought to—through an accumulation of details over the span of his blues oeuvre, rather than by overl员工关系管理>赛巴巴
oading each poem with quaintness and naivety–Hughes made his most important contributions to the genre. His blues poems are in fact clor stylistically to the folk blues on which he modeled them than to the cultivated classic blues. Arnold Rampersad has obrved that virtually all of the poems in the 1927 collection in which Hughes esntially originated blues poetry fall deliberatively within the “range of utterance” of common folk. This surely applies to “Young Gal’s Blues,” in which Hughes avoids the conventionally “poetic” language and images that the subjects of death and love sometimes elicit in his ordinary lyric poetry. To e what Hughes’ blues poetry might have been like if he had truly adopted the classic blues as his model, one need only look to “Golden Brown Blues,” a song lyric Hughes wrote for compor W.C. Handy. Its images, allusions, and diction are conspicuously remote from the common “range of utterance.”
