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Lionel Trilling is most probably a ______.
A．follower of Shaw
B．drama critic
C．book reviewer
D．crime reporter
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A、the uninterpretable aspect of Robert Frost
B、the negative inclination of Robert Frost
C、the dark side of Robert Frost
D、the humorous but intricate aspect of Robert Frost
In writing this passage, the author's chief concern seems to be to ______.
A．comment on the poor quality of our plays
B．show why book reviewing is easier than play reviewing
C．point up the opinions of Shaw
D．defend the work of the play critic
In the same key, Lionel Tiger, a Canadian anthropologist, the author of the book “Men in Groups,” states that men have inherited from distant ancestors the irreducible propensity to form groups, and this propensity has become a kind of “backbone” of human communities. Initially, these groups were designed for hunting activities. Later, with the disappearance of the need to hunt, groups were formed based on other motivations. Through this ancestral group psychology one can explain why men from contemporary societies tend to join teams of fans, gangs, closed clubs, religious sects, militant coalitions, etc. On the other hand, female coalitions are almost nonexistent.Of all the studied cultures, rarely were “gangs of women” identified,while “gangs of men” can be found everywhere [Potts, 2006].What is the cause of this phenomenon？ First of all,women didn’t have the aggressive and defensive motivation that men have, which would require the creation of militant groups. Their physical condition and mission of “future mothers” didn’t allow them to engage in acts of aggression and defense.
听力原文： Dozens of recording stars began converging on a Hollywood studio Monday to add their voices to a song they hope will raise millions of dollars for Haitian earthquake relief25. The words and music are an updated version of "We Are the World," a song that raised at least $ 30 millions for African humanitarian programs 25 years ago. Lionel Richie, who co-wrote the first song with Michael Jackson, is organizing the effort26. The original producer, Quincy Jones, is using the same studio he used in 198526. Reporters and security surrounded Henson Studios, anticipating the arrival of limousines delivering the stars Monday afternoon for what is expected to be a marathon recording session26. Smokey Robinson, who sang on the original, said the list of 100 singers asked to take part does not include any of the 45 stars from the previous version26. Organizers have not said when the song might be ready for the world to hear.
Why did the singers meet in Hollywood？
A．To raise money for African humanitarian efforts.
B．To raise money for Haitian earthquake victims.
C．To sing in memory of Michael Jackson.
D．To make a recording of the original version of the song.
In the late 1930s, many big bands broke up【C7】______smaller units and formed "jump blues" bands【C8】______played loud music with a strong dance beat, quickly【C9】______popular in the dance halls at the time.
Early R＆B【C10】______were those of Count Basie, Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton. Basic had a hit in 1937 with One O'clock Jump,【C11】______Jordan had a string of hits from the late 1930s through the 1940s. By the mid 1940s, R.M. Blues by Roy Milton and The Honey dripper by Joe Liggin each【C12】______one million copies.
The new music style【C13】______to evolve and was gaining【C14】______rapidly. In Annapolis, more than 50,000 people【C15】______up to a concert with seating for 8,000. There was a traffic【C16】______for seven hours.
Rhythm and blues has come a long way【C17】______American African musicians of the mid 20th century developed their own style. of【C18】______music based on some more conservative styles at the time. R&B had huge success in the 1950s and 1960s before making an even【C19】______comeback as contemporary R&B【C20】______the 1980s on.
【C1】
A．style
B．form
C．way
D．group
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听力原文： London (dpa) - The Queen has imposed a palace ban on the use of mobile phones by her servants while they are on duty, after a barrage of calls disturbed a recent banquet held for foreign dignitaries, the Sun reported on Monday.
Quoting a Buckingham Palace source, the Sun said a series of royal family meals had been interrupted by trilling mobile phones, some playing customized melodies like the Hawaii Five-O theme tune and Colonel Bogey.
The Queen had initially laughed at this, but the final straw came when several flunkeys phones rang during a major banquet held for foreign dignitaries.
The ban applies to staff on duty at Buckingham Palace, the royal summer retreat at Balmoral in Scotland and Sandringham in Norfolk.
"It is fair to say the Queen was not amused when the phones started ringing incessantly," a palace source told the Sun.
"The first few times the mobiles went off the royals thought it was a bit of a laugh, but the noise and interruptions became irritating as more and more staff acquired them."
"Senior courtiers have also complained of the peace and quiet of the palace being disrupted by the sound of the Hawaii Five-O theme echoing down the corridors," he told the Sun.
The Times reports the Queen is looking for fresh young female budgerigars to reinvigorate the royal stock after generations of inbreeding.
Any old budgie would not do, the Times said, quoting Graham Stone, 44, a gardener at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, who bears the title Keeper of the Royal Budgerigars.
The Queen' s birds are of a free-flying variety, brightly coloured in green, blue and yellow, much smaller and faster than the caged domestic bird, with entirely different instincts and absolutely no vocabulary.
As Princess Elizabeth, the Queen was given a pair of budgies by an official in the 1930s. The flock grew to such an extent that today there about 100.
"They seem to have lost the vigour of breeding in the past two years. They haven' t had any fresh blood for decades. We lose a few to the sparrowhawks and kestrels in Windsor Home Park and now have too many males and not enough fresh females, Sone said.
At first, the Queen's attitude towards the mobile phones was that she felt ______.
A．annoyed
B．angry
C．a bit of laugh
D．somewhat confused
Author Nadine Cohodas, whose previous book on Chess Records marvelously outlined that historic company, now gives the same exacting treatment to Washington in Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington. Cohodas also selected the songs on a companion CD, released on Verve Records.
Queen is the first truly comprehensive volume on the late singer. Cohodas conducted numerous interviews with insiders and family members and discovered documents and letters that reaffirm her assessments. Cohodas ably illuminates the quirks and contradictions of Washington's personality. Washington could be extremely kind and appallingly crude. She complained about her inability to find happiness in relationships, yet married seven times. A smart, extremely knowledgeable artist who had definite ideas about her music, Washington frequently clashed with bandmates, despite often being accompanied by the greatest jazz musicians on earth. Thankfully, Cohodas also presents Washington's upbeat, joyous and celebratory side, thus not totally resigning her to tragic victim status.
Sadly, Washington's ongoing conflicts and struggles with lovers, relatives and executives in many ways prevented her from achieving the fame she deserved, along with the fact that black female singers had extremely limited options during the ' 50s and early' 60s. But Washington influenced numerous vocalists who followed her, most notably Esther Phillips and Nancy Wilson, while creating an exceptional body of work that's still captivating almost 41 years after her death at 39. Songs like "Unforgettable", "This Bitter Earth," "What a Difference a Day Makes" and "Baby You Got What It Takes" remain as documents of her excellence. Queen is a wonderful and invaluable addition to music biography and cultural history.
The passage seems to indicate that Dinah Washington was NOT an ______ artist.
A．eclectic
B．influential
C．exceptional
D．acquiescent
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.
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