INSULAR:A.insolventB.cosmopolitanC.ominousD.biasedE.perceptible
INSULAR:
A.insolvent
B.cosmopolitan
C.ominous
D.biased
E.perceptible
INSULAR:
A.insolvent
B.cosmopolitan
C.ominous
D.biased
E.perceptible
Paragraph 4 In earlier days those who had overseas business which they believed should be discussed personally, took ship and set out across the briny deep. Once aboard they transacted their affairs, engaging in commercial and social matters or conducting government business. Today ships and passengers continue to sail the seven seas, and airplanes soar overhead. But above them all, words speed through the sky – telephone conversations quickly bring together in the most personal fashion people who are separated by thousands of miles.
A、Overseas telephone service today is ruling out all need for overseas travel.
B、Nothing can take the place of person-to-person conversation in settling business, social, and government problems.
C、Many conversations which once required overseas travel can now be conducted by telephone.
D、Even with modern overseas telephone service people continue to travel abroad by ship or by plane.
The politician's statement was contradictory_____ he'd made earlier in the same week. |
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A. to what B. with what C. to one D. with one |
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
Feminist critics have often pondered whether a postmodern language may
be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and
some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely
negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that
(5) recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus,
political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification.
The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have
been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously
reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and
(10) their culpability in her protagonists' predicaments, that unlike pure and
transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison
insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own
stories, quotidian as they may be, and while these will never offer the solace of
transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the
(15) world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author views the justification through literature as a concept that
A.derives from a negative stance toward feminism
B.predates the birth of postmodernism as a literary movement
C.encourages writers to tell humdrum stories
D.limits the construction of morally complex characters
E.contributes to the politicization and historical orientation of texts
A.Immutable from the point of its creation
B.Evolving from inherited trains to learned ones
C.The seat of the soul
D.Varying from individual to individual
E.Initially free of attributes
A.In what tradition do feminist critics usually place Dorothy Allison?
B.What are the main themes found in the fiction of Dorothy Allison's post-modern contemporaries?
C.What political values does Allison attempt to address through her fiction?
D.What views does Allison hold concerning the production of narratives of the commonplace in women's literature?
E.How was the development of Allison's fiction affected by the arrogance of modernist essentialism?
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