Compared with literature, communication stresses ______.
文献检索(literature search)与分析
Passage 1
Literature is a form of art that can be enjoyed without formal instruction. However, people with 1 knowledge of literature may miss a lot 2 reading a novel, short story, poem, play, or 3. These readers are comparable to the 4 at a football game who watch the game and 5 it without really understanding the complex movements 6 on the field. Although they may enjoy the 7, many spectators watch only the ball 8 missing the contribution of other members 9 the total play as well as the intricacies occurring within the 10. A person who understands football 11 better yet has played the game-is more capable12 judging when a team is playing well or 13 and is also likely to enjoy a “good” game more. The 14 is true of reading literature. Most people have read numerous 15 works, but many do not understand or 16 the author’s skill in communicating. This book17 intended to help you learn to 18attentions not on what happens. But on 19 it happens and how the author has 20it-to analyze and evaluate literary works so that you can fully experience and appreciate them.
1. A. abundant B. informal C. necessary D. limited
2. A. if B. when C. by D. upon
3. A. fiction B. poetry C. essay D. art
4. A. audience B. spectators C. coaches D. players
5. A. 1ike B. appreciate C. enjoy D. evaluate
6. A. happened B. taken place C. going D. occurring
7. A. game B. scene C. work D. art
8. A. somewhat B. entirely C. perhaps D. generally
9. A. of B. within C. to D. about
10. A. offence B. game C. defense D. team
11. A. but B. even C. and D. or
12. A. of B. to C. in D. for
13. A. skillfully B. successfully C. poorly D. badly
14. A. same B. reason C. other D. sport
15. A. athletic B. literature C. football D. literary
16. A. realize B. appreciate C. like D. recognize
17. A. will be B. hasbeen C. is D. was
18. A. pay B. call C. draw D. concentrate
19. A. why B. where C. how D. when
20. A. narrated B. presented C. maintained D. explained
What is rhythm in literature according to the passage?
According to the passage, literature, music and the arts _____.
The speaker calls music and literature “the two temporal arts” because they ______.
According to the passage, literature, music and the arts _____.
As you like pop music,()I like literature.
The author believes that the enjoyment of literature comes from ______.
Practice 6
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspected before Cervantes,2 humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive.