火山湖英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析(30)

2021年1月22日发(作者：nxx)
英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析（
30
）


Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this: artists' only
job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.

This wasn't always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited
for expressing joy. But somewhere from the 19th century
, more artists began seeing happiness as
meaningless,
phony
or,
worst
of
all,
boring,
as
we
went
from
Wordsworth's
daffodils
to
Baudelaire's flowers of evil.

Y
ou
could
argue
that
art
became
more skeptical
of
happiness
because
modern times
have
seen so
much
misery
.
But
it's
not
as
if
earlier
times
didn't
know
perpetual
war,
disaster
and
the
massacre
of
innocents. The
reason,
in
fact,
may
be
just
the
opposite:
there
is
too
much
damn
happiness in the world today.

After
all,
what
is
the
one
modern
form
of
expression
almost
completely
dedicated
to
depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence
of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture
in which happiness is not just an
ideal but an
ideology.

People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted,
lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication
and literacy,
the
most
powerful
mass medium
was the
church, which reminded
worshippers
that
their
souls
were
in
danger
and
that
they would
someday
be
meat
for worms.
Given
all
this,
they
did
not
exactly need their art to be a bummer too.

Today
the
messages
the
average
Westerner
is
surrounded
with
are
not
religious
but
commercial,
and
forever
happy.
Fast-food
eaters,
news
anchors,
text
messengers,
all
smiling,
smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes.
And since these messages have an agend
a
－
to lure us to open our wallet
s
—
they make the very
idea of happiness seem unreliable.
before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.

But what we forget
—
what our economy depends on
us forgetting
—
is that happiness is more
than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for
loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us,
as religion
once
did,
Memento

mori:

remember
that
you will
die,
that
everything
ends,
and
that
happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a
clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.

36. By citing the examples of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that

[A] poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music.

[B] art grows out of both positive and negative feelings.

[C] poets today are less skeptical of happiness.

[D] artists have changed their focus of interest.

37. The word “bummer” (Line 5. paragraph 5) most probably means something

[A] religious.


[B] unpleasant.


[C] entertaining.


[D] commercial.

38.
In the author’s opinion,
advertising

[A] emerges in the wake of the anti-happy art.

[B] is a cause of disappointment for the general public.

[C] replaces the church as a major source of information.

[D] creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself.

39. We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes

[A].happiness more often than not ends in sadness.

[B] the anti-happy art is distasteful by refreshing.

[C] misery should be enjoyed rather than denied.

[D] the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms.

40. Which of the following is true of the text?

[A] Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.

[B] Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.

[C] People feel disappointed at the realities of modern society.
[D] Mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.


名师解析

36. By citing the examples of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that




作者引用诗人华兹华斯和波德莱尔的例子，其意图是为了表明

[A] poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music.




诗歌对于快乐的表达不如油画和音乐。

[B] art grows out of both positive and negative feelings.




艺术源于正面和负面情感。

[C] poets today are less skeptical of happiness.




今天的诗人对于快乐持较弱的怀疑态度。

[D] artists have changed their focus of interest.




艺术家已经改变了兴趣的焦点。

【答案】

D
【考点】

推断题。

【分析】

题 干关键词
“华兹华斯和波德莱尔”
，
定位到第二段最后一句，
“
as we went from
Wordsworth’
s daffodils to Baudelaire
’
s flowers of evil
”通过第一段的阅读我 们得
知，艺术家开始关注那些令人不快的情感。而第二段说，
“以前不是这样的，
绘画 ，音乐都适合表达快乐，只是
19
世纪的某个时候，当我们从华兹华斯的
水仙花转向波 德莱尔的恶之花时，越来越多的艺术家开始把快乐看成是乏味
的，虚假的，甚至是令人厌倦的。
”因此我们可以得出结论，即“艺术家已经
改变了兴趣的焦点”
。故正确答案是
[D]
。
[A]
不合适的原因是文中没有将诗歌、
绘画和音乐对于快乐的表现力进行 比较。
[B]
从字面上来看，似乎是有道理的，
但是这不是作者引用二人的目的所在， 因为作者强调的是一个重点的转移。选
项
[C]
的说法和第三段第一句的意思相反。< br>
37. The word
“
bummer
”
(Line 5. Paragraph 5) most probably means something
“
bummer
”
(
第五段第五行
)
一词的最有可能的含义 是

[A] religious.

宗教的













[B] unpleasant.

令人不快的

[C] entertaining.

使人愉快的






【答案】

B
【考点】

词义题。

【分析】

本题考查考生能否根据上下文来推测某个单词 意思的能力。
根据提示定义到第
五段最后一句。第五段说“早期时候的人，生活被苦难包围着。 他们工作到筋
[D] commercial.

商业的