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2021考研英语:精选阅读理解及答案(48)

来源:中公考研网校 更新时间:2019年12月31日 10:17:47

  2020考研复习已经接近了尾声,2021考研复习也提上了日程,近年报名考研英语的同学逐渐增多,为了使各位2021考研英语的同学更好的复习,中公考研网校小编为大家整理了"2021考研英语:精选阅读理解及答案(48)"的相关内容,希望对各位考生的复习备考有所帮助。

  He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first published in a book called “The Hawk in the Rain” when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughes's ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs. These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices—symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink.

  It was not only England that thought so either. Hughes's book was also published in America, where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide. Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died, Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called “Birthday Letters”. In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters, Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife's death, which he calls his “big and unmanageable event”. He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten.

  The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware. For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes's early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalised historical chronicle. Poets' letters are seldom like that, and Hughes's are no exception. His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughes's own or other people's. The trajectory of Hughes's literary career had him moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety. These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private, part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy.

  Hughes is an absorbing and intricate commentator upon his own poetry, even when he is standing back from it and good-humouredly condemning himself for “its fantasticalia, its pretticisms and its infinite verballifications”. He also believed, from first to last, that poetry had a special place in the education of children. “What kids need”, he wrote in a 1988 letter to the secretary of state for education in the Conservative government, “is a headfull [sic] of songs that are not songs but blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language.” When that happens, children have “the guardian angel installed behind the tongue”. Lucky readers, big or small.

  1.The poetry of Hughes’s forerunners is characteristic of ______

  [A] its natural, crude flavor.

  [B] its distorted depiction of people’s daily life.

  [C] its penetrating sight.

  [D] its fantastical enthusiasm.

  2.The word “vilified” (Line 4, Paragraph 2)most probably means _____

  [A] tortured

  [B] harassed

  [C] scolded

  [D] tormented

  3.According to the third paragraph, Hughes’s collection of letters are _____

  [A] the exact reason responsible for both his fame and notoriety.

  [B] personalized description of his double identity as a public and a private figure.

  [C] reflections of his struggle between his literary devotion and the reality.

  [D] his meditation and exploration on the literary world and the essence of literature.

  4. From the letters, we may find the cause of Hughes’s internal struggle is _____

  [A] his eager and unsatisfied passion for literature.

  [B] that he is a part-private, part-public creature.

  [C] that he is constrained by the fear of his privacy being exposed to the criticism of the public.

  [D] the moral torment exerted by himself.

  5. By “lucky readers” in the last sentence, the author means_____

  [A] children who are imparted with the beauty and wisdom of poetry.

  [B] children who have a headfull of fantastic and verbally perfect songs.

  [C] children who own blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language.

  [D] children who are believed to have the guardian angel installed behind the tongue.

  题目分析

  1.[答案] B

  [难度系数] ☆☆☆

  [分析] 细节题。本文第一段讲述了休斯诗歌的特点。第一段第二句说明了当时盛行的诗歌的特色是the wry chronicling of the everyday,紧接着第三句就指出休斯的作品不同于他前辈的诗歌,接下来的几句都是讲述休斯作品具体是什么特色。由此可以推理,第二句所描写的就是其前人作品的特点,是“对日常生活的变形描述”,选项B为正确答案。

  2.[答案] C

  [难度系数] ☆

  [分析] 猜词题。这个词的意思要根据上下文推断。该词出现的前一句讲述休斯妻子,一位美国诗人自杀了。紧接着就说,该事件发生后很长一段时间里美国的女权主义者对休斯采取了一种行动。后面又讲述了休斯在去世之前将他与妻子的关系情况以书信集的方式表达出来,直到这本集子出版他的负担才得以减轻。那么休斯一直背负着的就是一种精神负担,这部分是由那些女权主义者造成的,可能性比较大的就是一种精神上的谴责,答案[C]最为符合。

  3.[答案]D

  [难度系数] ☆☆☆☆

  [分析]推理题。根据文章第三段,休斯的这本书信集和一般书信集不同,不是将自己的经历做一陈述,而是所有书信都包含有对自己或对别人作品的思考,是他文学思想的一个展示。最后一句是说从这些书信中可以看出他为是要完全展示在作品中还是要维护个人隐私而苦苦挣扎过。从这些描述可以看出,该书信集主要是他文学观点的一些表述,从中可以看出他的思想发展历程,因此答案D最符合。A和B选项与第二段关系较为密切,因此与本题无关。C选项看似有理,但要注意休斯的挣扎并不是在文学与现实之间的挣扎,而是一种在文学世界中探索的痛苦挣扎。

  4.[答案]C

  [难度系数] ☆☆☆

  [分析] 细节题。题干是要求找出休斯内心挣扎的原因,这在第三段最后一句中有提及。文章指出书信中处处都体现了休斯和自己半隐密、半公开这么一个身份进行斗争的印迹:一方面他想在创作中完全投入,但又担心自己的隐私会受到侵害。可以看出,休斯之所以内心挣扎,是由于他自己一面想要在作品中公开自己,而在现实中又想保护自己的隐私,因此答案C最为符合。

  5.[答案]A

  [难度系数] ☆☆

  [分析] 细节题。理解这句话需要结合上下文来看,文章最后一段主要是讲述休斯认为诗歌在孩子教育方面发挥特殊的作用,他认为孩子需要的是诗歌,是精致、完美的语言,如果真的拥有这些了,那么孩子舌头后面就有了守卫天使,那他们就是幸运的读者了。虽然四个答案都仿佛正确,但从最根本来说,是因为读诗,孩子才会拥有以上所说的一切,才是幸运的,而且本段也着重强调诗歌对于孩子的重要性。因此,最佳答案为A。

  以上就是中公考研网校为2021准备考研英语的同学准备的"2021考研英语:精选阅读理解及答案(48)"相关文章,了解更多2021考研英语复习资料到中公考研网校考研英语资料栏目。

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