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We are (at) a critical point in our nation's history and we cannot go back as individuals or (as a country) to (what) .we were ten, five or even one year (earlier).
A．at
B．as a country
C．what
D．earlier
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We can infer that the author of the article is______.
A．a reader
B．a critic
C．a racist
D．editor of TIME
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Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles, which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home; the publisher of radical books who takes his meals in three-star restaurants; the journalist advocating participatory democracy in all phases of life, whose own children are enrolled in private schools.
A．by examining the test of Shakespeare"s works
B．by discovering works such as "fat and lard" in Shakespeare"s work
C．by calculating the use of words in Shakespeare" works
D．by looking up works in Shakespeare"s works
What is the subject of today' s radio program？
A．The new election
B．The film industry
C．Young musicians
D．New photography exhibitions
For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion
in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to 【1】______
to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to
make the words "good" or "bad" irrelevant,
immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such a
thing, we are told, like a set of standards first 【2】______
acquired through experience and knowledge and
late imposed on the subject under discussion. This 【3】______
has been a popular approach, for it relieves the critic
of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the 【4】______
necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of
disciplines, it flatters the empty-minded by calling
him open-minded, it comforts the confused. Under 【5】______
the banner of democracy and the kind of quality
which our forefathers did not mean, it says, in effect,
"Who are you to tell us what is good or bad？" This
is same cry used so long and so effectively by the 【6】______
the producers of mass media who insist that it is the
public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear and 【7】______
to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is
bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of 【8】______
personal taste. Nobody recently bas expressed this
philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton , 【9】______
the highly intelligent president of CBS television. At
a hearing before the Federal Communications
Commission, this phrase escaped from him under 【10】______
questioning: "One man's mediocrity is another
man's goed program".
【M1】
Shallow or false any book must be, that, although bought by a hundred thousand readers, is never read more than Once. But we cannot consider the judgment of a single individual infallible. The opinion that makes a book great must be the opinion of many. For even the greatest critics are apt to have certain dullness, certain inappreciations. Carlyle, for example, could not endure Browning; Byron could not endure some of the greatest of English poets. A man must be many-sided to utter a trustworthy estimate of many books. We may doubt the judgment of the single critic at times, but there is no doubt possible in regard to the judgment of generations. Even if we cannot at once perceive anything good in a book which has been admired and praised for hundreds of years, we may be sure that by trying, by studying it carefully, we shall at last be able to understand the reason of this admiration and praise. The best libraries for a poor man would be a library composed entirely of such great works.
This, then, should be the most important guide for us in our reading choice. We Should read only the books that we want to read more than once, nor should we buy any others, unless we have some special reasons for so investing money. The second fact is the general character of the value that lies hidden within all such great books: they never become old; their youth is immortal. A great book is not apt to be comprehended by a young person at the first reading except in a superficial way. Only the surface, the narrative, is absorbed and enjoyed. No young man can possibly see at first reading the qualities of a great book. Remember that it has taken humanity, in many cases, hundreds of years to discover all that there is in such a book. But according to a man's experience of life, the text will unfold new meanings to him. The book that delighted us at eighteen, if it be a good book, will delight us much more at twenty-five, and it will prove like a new book to us at thirty years of age. At forty we shall reread it, wondering why we never saw how beautiful it was before. At fifty or sixty years of age the same facts will repeat themselves. A great book grows exactly in proportion to the growth of the reader's mind. It was the discovery of this extraordinary fact by generations of people long dead that made the greatness of such works as those of Shakespeare, of Dante, or of Goethe. Perhaps Goethe can give us at this moment the best illustration. He wrote a number of little stories in prose, which children like, because to children they have all the charm of fairy-tales. But he never intended them for fairy-tales; he wrote them for experienced minds. A young man finds very serious reading in them; a middle-aged man discovers an extraordinary depth in their least utterances and an old man will find in them all the world's philosophy, all the wisdom of life.
What may the author think of the art of the great French novelist, Zola？
A．There is no great genius in his works.
B．It has been settled that Zola's works are indisputable.
C．He possesses absolute genius.
D．There has been an exaggeration about his works.
"Mr. Speaker," his speech began, "yesterday against the roar of Japanese cannon in Hawaii our American people heard a trumpet call; a call to unity; a call to courage; a call to determination once and for all to wipe off of the earth this accursed monster of tyranny and slavery which is casting its black shadow over the hearts and homes of every land.”
Last year, Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, made the case for war in Iraq this way: "And if we don't go at Iraq, that our effort in the war on terrorism dwindles down into an intelligence operation," he said. "We go at Iraq and it says to countries that support terrorists, there remain six in the world that are as our definition state sponsors of terrorists, you say to those countries: we are serious about terrorism, we're serious about you not supporting terrorism on your own soil.
The linguist and cultural critic John McWhorter cites these excerpts in his new book. They not only are typical of speeches made in Congress on both occasions, he argues, but also provide a vivid illustration of just how much the language of public discourse has deteriorated.
Riddled with sentence fragments, run-ons and colloquialisms like "go at," Senator Brownback's speech is still intelligible, but in Mr. McWhorter's view, it is emblematic of a creeping casualness that is largely to the nation's detriment.
"We in America now are an anomaly," Mr. McWhorter said over lunch at a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan this week. "We have very little sense of English as something to be dressed up. It's just this thing that comes out of our mouths. We just talk. "
Mr. McWhorter, 38, a professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, is hardly the first to complain about Americans' brazen disregard for their native tongue. But unlike many others, he says, the problem is not an epidemic of bad grammar.
As a linguist, he says, he knows that grammatical rules are arbitrary and that in casual conversation people have never abided by them. Rather, he argues, the fault lies with the collapse of the distinction between the written and the oral. Where formal, well-honed English was once de rigueur in public life, he argues, it has all but disappeared, supplanted by the indifferent cadences of speech and ultimately impairing our ability to think.
This bleak assessment notwithstanding, Mr. McWhorter, an intense, confident and--perhaps not surprisingly--loquacious man is not a curmudgeon or a fuddy-duddy. Nor, for that matter, a nerd, despite a resume that bristles with intellectual precociousness.
Self-taught in 12 languages--including Russian, Swedish, Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew, which he initially took up as a Philadelphia preschooler when he was 4--he is a respected expert in Creole languages.
A college graduate at 19 and a tenured professor at 33, he has published seven previous books, including the controversial, best seller, "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America", in which he accused middle-class blacks of embracing anti-intellectualism and a cult of victimology. An African-American who is an outspoken critic of affirmative action, welfare and reparations, he has aroused the ire of many liberals and earned a reputation as a conservative.
In John McWhorter's view, the speech made by Senator Sam Brownback in Congress is an example of __ public discourse.
A．war-time
B．political
C．critical
D．deteriorated
Critics today, it is also claimed, are too cozy behind the ivied walls of academe, content to employ a prose style. that is decipherable only to a handful of the cognoscenti. The deadly dive of Uniersity critics into the shallow depths of popular culture, moreover, reveals the unwillingness of these critics to uphold standards. Even if the reasons offered are contradictory, these Jeremiahs huddle around their sad conclusion that serious cultural criticism has fallen into a morass of petty bickering and bloated reputations.
Such narratives of declension, a staple of American intellectual life since the time of the Puritans, are misplaced, self-serving, and historically inaccurate, so difficult to prove. Has the level of criticism declined in the last 50 years？ Of coarse the logic of such an opinion depends on the figures that are being contrasted with one another. Any number of cultural critics thriving today could be invoked to demonstrate that cultural criticism is alive and well.
But many new and thriving venues for criticism and debate exist today, and they are not limited solely t6 the discussion of literary works. Actually, they became so entrusted with their own certitude and political judgments that they beacme largely irrelevant. Today the complaint is that literary culture lacks civility. We live in an age of commercialism and spectacle. Writers seek the limelight, and one way to bask in it is to publish reviews that scorch the landscape, with Dale Peck as the famous, but not a typical case in point. Heidi Julavits, in an essay in The Believer, lamented the downfall of serious fiction and reviewing. She surveyed a literary culture that had embraced "snark", her term for hostile, self-serving reviews.
The snark review, according to Julavits, eschews a serious engagement with literature in favor of a sound-bite approach, an attempt to turn the review into a form. of entertainment akin to film reviews or restaurant critiques. A critic found cultural criticism to be in "critical condition". For him, the postmodern turn to theory, in its questioning of objectivity, cut the critical, independent ground out from under reviewers. The rise of chain bookstores and blockbuster best sellers demeaned literary culture, making it prey to the commercial values of the market and entertainment.
The criticism does not seem discontinuous. Nor should we forget that civility rarely reigned in the circles of New York intellectuals. The art critic Clement Greenberg physically pummeled the theatre critic Lionel Abel after Abel rejected the view that Jean Wahl, the French philosopher, was anti-Semitic. Though Robert Peck has the reputation of a literary hatchet man, so far as I know his blows thus far have all been confined to the printed page.
Cultural criticism has certainly changed over the years. The old day's of the critic who wielded unchallenged authority have happily passed. Ours is a more pluralistic age, one not beholden to a narrow literary culture. The democratization of criticism— as in the Amazon system of readers' evaluating books—is a messy affair, as democracy must be. But the solution to the problems of criticism in the present is best not discovered in the musty basements of nostalgia and sentiment for the cultual criticism of a half-century gone. Rather the solution is to recognize, as John Dewey did almost a century ago, that the problems of democracy demand more democracy, less nostalgia for a golden age that never was, and a spirit of openness to what is new and invigorating in our culture.
What is the possible connecti
A．Cultural critics attack postmodernism and commercialization cherished by publications and institutions.
B．Postmodernism and commercialization are attacked by the serious publications and institutions.
C．Cultural criticism is short of judgments and will not exist without the support of publications and institutions.
D．Publications and institutions show almost no interest in serious cultural criticism.
To: Kenneth Moore
From: KayIa Stewart
Subject: Book reviews
Date: Sep. 24, 2009
Dear Mr. Kenneth Moore,
Allow me to congratulate you again on becoming part of our online magazine writing team. As you learned in an earlier communication, you will be writing reviews of recently published non-fiction books.
By Monday next week, you will receive your first assignment parcel, which will (141) copies of the publications on your assignment list. Instructions for submitting the first draft of each review, in addition to information on the formation of a peer critic group for your work, are located on our website. Essentially, you will be posting your work on our non-fiction book review board, which you can access only (142) an administration-approved user name and password. Since you need a password to log in, your (143) password is: crimson. You can change this password for your convenience after you have logged on to the site.
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B．constitute
C．contain
D．compose
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