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2021考研英语:精选阅读理解及答案(50)

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  Just as Norman Mailer, John Updike and Philip Roth were at various times regarded as the greatest American novelist since the second world war, John Ashbery and Robert Lowell vied for the title of greatest American poet. Yet the two men could not be more different. Lowell was a public figure who engaged with politics—in 1967 he marched shoulder-to-shoulder with Mailer in protest against the Vietnam war, as described in Mailer's novel “The Armies of the Night”. Lowell took on substantial themes and envisioned himself as a tragic, heroic figure, fighting against his own demons. Mr Ashbery's verse, by contrast, is more beguilingly casual. In his hands, the making of a poem can feel like the tumbling of dice on a table top. Visible on the page is a delicately playful strewing of words, looking to engage with each other in a shyly puzzled fashion. And there is an element of Dada-like play in his unpredictability of address with its perpetual shifting of tones.

  Lowell, who died in 1977 at the age of 60, addressed the world head on. By contrast, Mr. Ashbery, who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this year, glances wryly at the world and its absurdities. In this edition of his later poems, a substantial gathering of verses selected from six volumes published over the past 20 years, his poetry does not so much consist of themes to be explored as comic routines to be improvised. He mocks the very idea of the gravity of poetry itself. His tone can be alarmingly inconsequential, as if the reader is there to be perpetually wrong-footed. He shifts easily from the elevated to the work-a-day. His poems are endlessly digressive and there are often echoes of other poets in his writings, though these always come lightly at the reader, as though they were scents on the breeze.

  Lowell wrote in strict formal measures; some of his last books consisted of entire sequences of sonnets. Mr. Ashbery can also be partial to particular forms of verse, though these tend to be of a fairly eccentric kind—the cento (a patchwork of other poets' works), for example, and the pantoum (a Malaysian form, said to have been introduced to 19th-century Europe by Victor Hugo). Often he writes in a free-flowing, conversational manner that depends for its success upon the fact that the ending of lines is untrammeled by any concern about whether or not they scan. Within many of his poems, there often seems to be a gently humorous antagonism between one stanza and the next. Mr. Ashbery likes using similes in his poetry. This is often the poet's stock-in-trade, but he seems to single them out in order to send up the very idea of the simile in poetry, as in “Violets blossomed loudly/ like a swear word in an empty tank”.

  Life, for Lowell, was a serious matter, just as he was a serious man. Mr Ashbery's approach, as evinced by his poetry, is more that of a gentle shrug of amused bewilderment. Unlike Lowell's, his poems are neither autobiographical nor confessional. He doesn't take himself that seriously. “Is all of life a tepid housewarming?” For a poet this is a tougher question to answer than you might think.

  1. The word “substantial” (Line 5, Paragraph 1) most probably means_____

  [A] philosophical.

  [B] grand.

  [C] indispensable.

  [D] authentic.

  2. The last words of Lowell mean that_____.

  [A] the world should go forward endlessly.

  [B] the world should move on without absurdities.

  [C] the world should function as well without his existence.

  [D] the world should go on its path for a bright future.

  3. Which one of the following is NOT the characteristics of Ashbery’s poetry?

  [A] Some lines are borrowed from the other poets’ works.

  [B] Stanzas are different from each other in one poem.

  [C] Words are scattered casually in his poetry.

  [D] Tones are continuously changing from the highbrow to the common.

  4. Mr. Ashbery’s similes in poetry are different from that of the other poets in that_____

  [A] he likes to single them out as they very essence of poetry’s technique.

  [B] he uses them in an eccentric way that can hardly be imitated by other poets.

  [C] he uses simile to make fun of simile.

  [D] he uses simile to express his complex definition of the idea of simile.

  5. Why the author thinks the question Ashbery raised is a tougher one for a poet than we might think?

  [A] Because as a matter of fact Ashbey is most focused on tough matters.

  [B] Because Ashbey turns out to be a more serious poet than Lowell.

  [C] Because Ashbey is able to better discern the dilemma of being a poet.

  [D] Because the theme of life is worth thinking for a poet.

  题目分析:

  1.[答案] B

  [难度系数] ☆☆☆

  [分析] 猜词题。根据上下文来断定该词的意思,这个词是用来形容Lowell 诗歌主题的特点的。由第一段中Lowell喜欢参与政治,在诗歌中经常将自己视为悲剧的英雄人物这一点可以看出,他的主题选择应该是比较宏大的。这一点在后面的几个段落中也可以发现。选项A也容易混淆,但要从tragic heroic 这几个词中推导正确答案,因为这些就是宏大叙事中常见的特征。因此,B为正确答案。

  2.[答案]D

  [难度系数] ☆☆

  [分析] 推理题。Lowell临终时addressed the world head on,意思是让世界继续前行,但其深层次的意思要结合Lowell的性格来判断。根据整篇文章,Lowell是比较正统的一位诗人,他对待世界的态度是严肃的,他这句话的深层意思是世界应该一直努力向前,最终能够走到光明的未来。选项D最为符合题意。

  3.[答案]A

  [难度系数] ☆

  [分析] 细节题。题干要求选出不属于Ashbery 诗歌特点的一项。文章通篇都有对其诗歌特点的描述,因此就要细心查找每一选项是否在文章中提及。选项A, 文章第二段最后一句提到,there are often echoes of other poets in his writings, 有其他诗人的调子,但并没有说直接借用其作品中的句子,可能是模仿其风格或语调。因此,答案A 不一定正确。选项B, 关于诗歌节的特点,文章第三段提到there often seems to be a gently humorous antagonism between one stanza and the next,关键要知道 “antagonism”的意思——“对抗的”,说明节与节之间是截然不同的对立的风格,选项B是其诗歌特点。选项C 是关于诗歌用词的特点,第一段提到他诗歌中的词就像散落在桌上的色子一样,那么C也是其特点。D是关于诗歌语调的,文章有两处提及,第一段提到its perpetual shifting of tones,第二段有更为详细的描述: He shifts easily from the elevated to the work-a-day, D也是其特点。因此,答案应选A。

  4.[答案]C

  [难度系数] ☆☆☆☆

  [分析] 细节题。文章第三段提到,Ashbery喜欢在诗歌中运用比喻手法,但和一般诗人不同的是,他喜欢把比喻单独列出来,好像要戏谑诗歌中的比喻似的。然后作者举了一个例子,是个非常奇怪的比喻,“紫罗兰纵情开放/ 宛如空桶里的一句毒誓”。这个题目有一定难度,send up 这个短语的意思考生不一定熟悉,但考生可以根据Ashbery一贯游戏人生的态度分析出来。选项A、B只是表层的现象,C才是真正的实质。

  5.[答案] D

  [难度系数] ☆☆☆☆

  [分析] 推理题。 最后的这个问题是:“生活的全部是不是只是并不热烈的乔迁庆宴?”这个问题的提出要结合文章最后一段来看,最后一段是描写Ashbery对于生活的态度:Lowell对待生活的态度是很严肃的,但是Ashbery 却是一种玩世不恭的态度,对于这个问题他给出的答案可能是肯定的,但是对于其他诗人呢,则需要好好地考虑一下了, 尤其是生活主题对于诗人来说是一个非常复杂的问题。答案中D最为符合。

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