Question

Susan Sontag（1933-2004）was one of the most outstanding figures in the world of literature·For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything，to read every book worth reading，and to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s，she published essays in important magazines like Partisan Review.She appeared as the symbol of American culture life，trying hard to follow every new development in literature，film and art. With great effort and serious judgment，Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong mottos,but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In Notes on Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “ a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.

By belief she was a sensualist（感觉论者）, but by nature she was a moralist, In Illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

In America, her story of a19thcentury Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. “Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

1.The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.

A.was a symbol of American cultural life

B.developed world literature, film and art

C.published many essays about world culture

D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture

2.Sontag first won her name through ___________.

A.her story of a Polish actress

B.her book Illness as Metaphor

C.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

D. publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE？

A.Sontag looked down upon the pop culture·

B.Sontag was a sensualist as well as a moralist.

C.Sontag blamed the victim of cancer for the disease.

D.Sontag thought content was more important than form.

4.What would be the best title of the text？

A.Susan Sontag，a Leading Figure in Culture

B. Susan Sontag，a Productive and Tireless Writer

C.Susan Sontag，an Examiner of the Old Concepts

D. Susan Sontag，a Writer Defending Seriousness

Answer 1