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eye contact的阅读理解(阅读真题D82006.text4-TheArt)(1)

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eye contact的阅读理解(阅读真题D82006.text4-TheArt)(2)

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Day7复习作业翻译参考:

当人类到达世界的一个新的地方时,那里的大部分动物就会发生奇怪的事情。它们突然灭绝了。这表明动物和人类比起来更容易在环境变化中受到影响。

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Day 8 全 文 解 析

【2006年Text4,标蓝有解析】

(1/6)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 onward, 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.-许多事情让人们觉得艺术家很古怪。最古怪可能是:艺术家的唯一工作就是寻找情感,然而他们所关注的对象大多是那些不幸的人。当然不总是那样。艺术的最早形式,像绘画和音乐,都是最适合表达快乐的。但在19世纪的某个时期,更多的艺术家开始把快乐看成无意义的,假冒的,甚至是最糟的。我们可以从Wordsworth的《黄水仙》到Baudelaire的《罪恶之花》看出这种变化。
(2/6)You 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.-你可能会争论艺术变得对幸福如此怀疑是因为在现代看到了这样的苦难。但这并不是因为在早期不了解持久的战争, 灾难和大规模的屠杀无辜。事实上,原因可能与之相反:现在世界上有太多快乐要去谴责。
(3/6)After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happines?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.-归根结底,几乎完全致力于描写快乐的那种现代表现方式是什么呢?广告。反快乐艺术的兴起几乎完全与大众传媒同步出现,而随之兴起了一种商业文化,在这种文化中,快乐不仅是一个抽象概念,而是一种意识形态。早期的人们被悲痛之使者所萦绕。他们工作到筋疲力尽,生活几无保障,年纪轻轻就命丧黄泉。在西方,在大众传媒和文学普及之前,最有效的大众媒体是教堂,它提醒信徒们,他们的灵魂处于危险之中,他们总有一天会成为蛆虫的食物。在这种信仰下,他们对此已十分了然,无须其艺术再表现这种失落感。
(4/6)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. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda---to lure us to open our wallets---they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.“Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks. (Translation)-今天,你们普通西方人面对的围绕我们四周的信息不是宗教的,而是商业的,而且一直让人快乐。快餐食客、新闻主播、发短信的人,都在笑。我们的杂志刊登满面春风的名人和美满幸福的家庭。这样的消息都有一项任务,即引诱我们打开钱包去使这些看起来并不可靠的快乐变得真实起来。“欢庆吧!”宣传关节炎良药西乐葆的广告这样号召道,随后我们却发现它能增加心脏病的发病率。
(5/5)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. -但是我们所忘记的是(我们的经济依赖着我们的遗忘)经过痛苦得来的快乐比没有经过痛苦得来的快乐好得多。带给我们最大快乐的事件,同时也暗含着巨大的损失和失望。现在,在耳边充斥着能轻易得到快乐的承诺时,我们需要有人告诉我们,正如宗教曾经所做,死亡警示:记住你会死,一切将会终结,快乐虽然到来,但是它不能消除苦难,而是与其共存。这可能比抽烟更加毒害人的健康,然而,不知为何,也许会带来一股清新的气息。

文 章 结 构 简 析

第一段引入一个现象,人们认为艺术家很奇怪,并对负面情感关注;

第二段,做出对比,在过去艺术是关注幸福快乐,但是近一个世纪,开始否定幸福;

第三段,分析这个转变的原因,这个世界存在很多可恶的幸福;

第四段,继续分析原因,广告,大众媒体等大肆宣传幸福;

第五到七段,表明过去的宗教和今年的商业相比,前者提醒我们悲观的现实,商业的目的却是不断创造各种快乐。最后一段转折突出,艺术和过去的宗教一样,不断提醒我们,人终究会死亡。

本文原标题:The Art of Unhappiness(悲情艺术)。

eye contact的阅读理解(阅读真题D82006.text4-TheArt)(3)

长 难 句 解 析

1.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.

【分析】it 指代the rise;in which引导的从句修饰commercial culture

【译文】反快乐艺术的上升几乎精确的追踪着大众传媒的产生,并且伴随着它产生了商业文化,其中的幸福不仅仅是一种理想,而是一种空想。

2. And since these messages have an agenda--to lure us to open our wallets-they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.

【分析】这是个简单句,破折号前面是主句,破折号后面的不定式结构to lure us to open ourwallets修饰agenda 。

【译文】因此这些信息都有一个中心目的:引诱我们掏钱,这使得那些幸福的观点看起来不可靠了。

选 择 题 详 解

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.36.通过列举诗人Wordswort和Baudelaire的例子,作者打算表明[A] 在表达快乐时,诗歌的表现力不如绘画和音乐。[B] 艺术来自正面和负面的情感。[C] 如今的诗人对于幸福少了些怀疑。[D] 艺术家的关注点发生了变化。
【答案】D【考点】判断推理题【解析】本题考查考生理解句子之间关系的能力。第一和第二段之间有强烈的转折关系。现代许多人认为艺术家比较怪异的一个方面就是他们喜欢表现悲伤的主题。第二段作者指出,事实并非一直这样。A选项,原文没有对诗歌和其它艺术形式进行比较;B选项很有道理,但是原文没有直接出处,注意不要过度引申;C选项如果综合第三段就可以理解,不是作者认同的原因,另外主语是诗人也不对。
37.The word “bummer”(Line 4. paragraph 5)most probably means something____.A. religiousB. unpleasantC. entertainingD. commercial37.第5段第4行 “bummer”最有可能意味着什么A.宗教B.不愉快C.娱乐D.商业
【答案】B【考点】词义句意题【解析】本题考察考生利用上下文对生词理解的能力。本段中作者指出,早期人们无论在生活中还是教堂中,时刻都接受着这样的提醒:“生活中是有痛苦存在的”。所以他们不需要艺术再次成为提醒痛苦的媒介。这就是判断词义的依据,答案就是B,不愉快的东西。有些考生没有把生活中的痛苦和教堂对痛苦的提醒结合起来考虑,同时没有注意bummer句中“did not exactly need…too”(不需要….也是这样)的语气。
38.In the author’s opinion, advertising____.A. emerges in the wake of the anti-happy artB. is a cause of disappointment for the general publicC. replace the church as a major source of informationD. creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself38.在作者看来,广告[A] 广告随着宣扬不幸的艺术觉醒而出现。[B] 广告是普通人失望的原因。[C] 广告取代教堂成为主要的信息来源。[D] 广告带来幸福的幻象而不是真正的幸福。
【答案】D【考点】具体信息题【解析】A选项意思是,广告随着反幸福艺术的出现而出现。原文说的是反幸福是随着大众媒体出现,没有涉及这两者的前后关系;B选项,原文是最后一段出现了disappointment和general public ,和广告没有关系;C选项意思是替代教堂成为信息的主要来源,原文没有提及。D选项的 illusion,对应原文的not just an ideal but an ideology。
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 booms39.我们可以从最后一段中得知作者相信:[A] 幸福时常以悲伤终结。[B] 那些宣扬不幸的艺术令人不快但是令人有新鲜之感。[C] 应该欣赏而不是否认不幸[D] 宣扬不幸的艺术在经济繁荣时兴盛起来。
【答案】B【考点】判断推理题【解析】最后一段中作者指出,虽然这些提醒比丁香香烟苦涩,但是依然是一丝清凉的空气,对应选项的is distasteful but refreshing。A选项有个more often than not, 原文只是说有greatest potential; C选项的enjoyed原文没有出处;D选项意思是反幸福艺术随着经济繁荣发展,原文没有出处。
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.40.下面哪一个是正确的文本?[A] 宗教曾经发挥提醒人们不幸的功能。[B] 艺术在期待和现实之间提供了一种平衡。[C] 人们对道德的现状感到失望。 [D] 大众传媒倾向与报导灾难和死亡。
【答案】A【考点】具体信息题【解析】而且是恶心的全篇的信息对比。考生应该能够抓住全文的几个关键词:提醒,幸福,痛苦,宗教,艺术,大众媒介,而这些关键词在此题中都出现了。考生应该充分理解作者的观点,分析这些关键词之间的关系。文中的主题是“现代艺术的作用是提醒人们快乐的背后可能存在着痛苦”,答案B认为“艺术在人们的期望和现实之间保持平衡”,文章没有提到什么平衡。答案C“现代社会的人们对现实感到失望”,文章中根本没有提及。答案D“大众媒介喜欢报道灾难和死亡”,与原文的内容相反。所以只有答案A“宗教曾经一度起到提醒人们苦难存在的作用”。这在文中第五段中可以找到依据。

真 题 D 9 任 务

1、D8复习:认真听第一篇解析,完全搞清楚全文分析及解题思路,并复习本篇重点词汇句子。

2、复习作业:请在完成今天任务的基础上,完成下面这句话的汉翻英,并在评论区完成:

我们所忘记的是经过努力得来的成功比没有经过痛苦得来的成功有意义的得多。带给我们最大快乐的成功,同时也暗含着巨大的风险和失望。

3、D9打卡:完成2010年英语二Text1的精读笔记,5道选择题,最后一段英翻汉,拍照发到群里。不得请假!

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