2011年上半年河北学位英语第一单元课后阅读理解一

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II．Reading Comprehension
    Directions：Read the following passage(s)．Choose the best answer to each of the questions and
    translate the underlined sentence(s)into Chinese，
Passage 1

    The ballad(民谣)and the folk song have long been recognized as important keys to the
 thoughts and feelings of a people，but the dime novel(通俗小说)，though sought by the
 collector and deferred to in a general way by the social historian，is dismissed with a smile of
 amusement by almost everyone else．
    Neither folk songs nor dime novels were actually created by the plain people of America．
But in their devotion to these modes of expression，the people made them their own．The dime
 novel,intended as it was for the great masses and designed to fill the pockets of both author and．publisher,quite naturally sought the lowest common denominator：themes that were foundt to be
popular and attitudes that met with the most general approval became stereotyped．
    Moreover,the dime novel，reflecting a much wider range of attitudes and ideas than the
 ballad and the folk song，is the nearest thing we have had in this county to a true'proletarian’
literature，that is a literature written for the great masses of people and actually read by them．
    Although a study of our dime novels alone cannot enable anyone to determine what are the
 essential characteristics of the American tradition，it can contribute materially to that end．SoOner or later,the industrious researchers who have mined so many obscure lodes of American literary expression will almost certainly turn their attention to these novels and all their kinds．Let nO One think，however,that the salmon covered paperbacks once so eagerly devoured by soldiers，lumberjacks，trainmen，hired girls，and adolescent boys now make exciting or agreeable reading even for the historian，much as the social and historical implications may interest him．As for the crowds today who get their sensational thrills from the movies and the tabloids，I fear that they would find these hair-raisers of an earlier age deadly dull．

以广大民众为目标，以作者和出版商盈利为目的，通俗小说很自然会追求最低的共同特征：流行的主题和大众普遍赞同的态度成为了模式化的陈规。

1．According to the passage，it is common to consider that an important indication of a society's  culture is the———————．B
  A)dime novel    B)ballad and folk song
  C)popular songs D)music
 2．Which of the following is true，according to the passage? D
  A)Folk songs were created by the plain people ofAmerica．
  B)The dime novel was created by the plain people ofAmerica．
  C)Both folk songs and dime novels were created by the plain people ofAmerica．
  D)Both folk songs and dime novels weren’t created by the common Americans．
3．Which ofthe following belongs to one of“these modes ofexpression”(Line 2，Para．2)? C
  A)Popular songs．  B)Dancing．    C)Dime novels．    D)Jazz．
4．The principal purpose ofthe author of a dime novel was to    ．B
  A) explore a segment ofAmerican society
  B) make money
  C)raise the level of intelligence ofthe great mass of people
  D)promote the American political philosophy
 5．According to the author,the study of our dime novels    ． C
  A)is awaste oftime
  B)would be amusing but unimportant
  C)would be a valuable contribution in determining the essential characteristics ofthe
    American tradition
  D)would be sufficient in itself to determine the essential characteristics of the American
    tradition

1．According（根据） to the passage，it is common to consider （思考）that an important indication（表示） of a society's  culture is the———————．B
  A)dime novel    B) ballad and folk song
  C)popular songs D)music

2．Which of the following（下列） is true，according（根据）to the passage（段落）? d

 根据短文意思，下列哪个是正确的？
  A)Folk songs were created by the plain people of America．
  B)The dime novel was created by the plain people of America．
  C)Both folk songs and dime novels were created by the plain people of America．
  民歌和民谣都是普通的美国人创作的。
  D)Both folk songs and dime novels weren’t created by the common Americans．

民歌和民谣都不是普通的美国人创作的。

3．Which of the following belongs（属于） to one of “these modes of expression（表达）”(Line 2，Para．2<第二段三行>)? C
下列哪项是他们表达方式的一种？（第二段，第三行）
  A)Popular songs． (流行音乐) B)Dancing．（舞蹈）   C)Dime novels．（通俗小说）    D)Jazz．（爵士乐）

4．The principal（主要的） purpose （目的）of the author（作者） of a dime novel was to   ．B
通俗小说作者最主要的目的是什么？
  A) explore（探索） a segment（部分） of American society（社会）（探索美国社会）
  B) make money（赚钱）
  C)raise（升起） the level of intelligence（理解力） of the great mass（众多） of people
（提升多数人的理解水平）
  D)promote （促进）the American political（政治）philosophy（哲学）（促进美国政治与哲学的进步）
 

5．According（根据） to the author, the study of our dime novels  ．
根据作者，我们通俗小说的研究
  A)is a waste of time （浪费时间）
  B)would be amusing（有趣的） but unimportant（有趣的但不重要的。）
  C)would be a valuable（宝贵的） contribution （贡献）in determining（决定的） the essential（本质的） characteristics（特征） of the American tradition（传统的）
（将是确定美国传统本质特征的宝贵贡献）
  D)would be sufficient（充分的） in itself to determine（决定）  the  essential characteristics  of  the  American  tradition
（它本身足以确定美国传统的本质特征）
 
我的答案，不知道对不对。第一题的，“ a socie~，s
  culture ”不知道是啥意思。

翻译：

短文一：
民谣与民歌始终被公认为是抒发人类思想和感受的途径。尽管收藏家和社会历史学家寻找通俗小说并认为其是了解早期人类思想的主要途径。但被几乎所有的人嗤之以鼻。

无论是小说还是民歌实际上都不是最普通的美国人创作的。但在他们热衷的表达方式里，人们固守陈归。小说贴近于大众的目的是尽量的填满作者和出版社的口袋，便相当自然地寻找最普通低级的题材做为主题，这些千篇一律的主题被社会大众欢迎与认可。

此外，通俗小说比民谣和民歌在思想意识上的反应的内容更为广阔，它是我们国家的无产阶级文学的雏形，它是为广大人民群众创作的文学，他们才是真正的读者。

尽管单独研究我们的通俗小说不容易让人理解，判断什么是美国传统的本质特征，但它能在实质上使那些结束。提前或者稍晚。勤劳的探索者将所有的注意力用尽各种方法去开采着美国文学宝藏。不受任何人左右，无论如何，束缚在这条大鱼上面绳索终于被士兵们，伐木工们，保姆们，司机们，和小男生们撕碎，现在可以让人或兴奋愉快的阅读历史上的故事。许多与社会和历史有关的故事牵动着人们的兴趣。至于今天给大家提供火爆刺激地电影和画报的人，我担心他们了解了他们早期的前辈会惭愧自己的愚钝。

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