题目内容
7.In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet,black bough.
This is the only Ezra Pound poem that many people will read in their lives.Why?One obvious reason is that it's just two lines long.The poem,which can be understood as"A man sees a bunch of faces in the subway and thinks they look like flowers on a tree branch,"is an exercise in shortness.Pound wrote it after having a spiritual experience in a Paris metro (subway) station.
In 1916,the US poet originally thought he could best describe his vision in a painting.Unfortunately,he wasn't a painter.So he wrote a thirty-line poem,which he didn't like.He dropped the long version in the waste bin.Six months later,he wrote a shorter poem,but didn't like that one either.Finally,a full year after the experience,he had been reading short Japanese poems called haikus,and he figured he would try this style.The result,which was published in 1913,is one of the most famous and influential works in modern poetry.
This poem is one of the monuments (纪念物) of the 20th-century artistic movement known as"Imagism".Basically,Pound and his friends thought that images (意象) weren't just decoration:they were the highest form of speech.By finding the right image,the poet can express the true,spiritual reality of a thing,which is more important than using a bunch of adjectives to describe its physical appearance.Thus,"In a Station of the Metro"is a poem that consists of one image expressed with absolute (绝对的) exactness and nothing else.
To the imagists,the best way to describe an experience is not to use more and more words; the best way is to find exactly the right words.Have you ever told a beloved one that"words can't express"how much you love them?Well,Pound would say that you're just being lazy.In his view,words can express anything,even if it takes an entire year to find the right ones.
13.In the short poem,Ezra PoundB.
A.tells us one of his painful experiences
B.compares the passengers'faces to flowers
C.describes a man walking among the crowd
D.shows a wet,black tree branch in a metro station
14.According to the text,"In a Station of the Metro"wasC.
A.based on one of Pound's paintings
B.first discovered in a waste bin
C.influenced by haikus
D.completed in 1916
15.Pound and his friendsD.
A.stressed the importance of using adjectives
B.were good at describing abstract images
C.decorated their poems with pictures
D.used images to express their ideas.
分析 文章介绍了"意象派"代表人物 Ezra Pound. 庞德是一位美国诗人和文学评论家,也是现代主义运动的重要代表人物.他对诗歌的主要贡献始于他对意象派的发展.意象派名作《在地铁站内》(In a Station of the Metro)是庞德最著名的作品.
解答 BCD
13.B 细节理解题.根据第一段"A man sees a bunch of faces in the subway and thinks they look like flowers on a tree branch"可知,Ezra Pound 在诗中把乘坐地铁的乘客的脸比作了花朵,故选B.
14.C 细节理解题.根据第二段"Unfortunately,he wasn't a painter."排除A;根据第二段"So he wrote a thirty-line poem,which he didn't like.He dropped the long version in the waste bin."排除B;根据第二段"which was published in 1913"排除D;根据第二段"he had been reading short Japanese poems called haikus,and he figured he would try this style"可知,Ezra Pound 是受到了日本的一种叫haikus(日本俳句)的诗歌形式的影响才创作的这首诗歌,故选C.
15.D 推理判断题.根据第三段"which is more important than using a bunch of adjectives"可知,意象比形容词重要,排除A;根据第三段"the poet can express the true,spiritual reality of a thing"可知,意象能够表达真实的和精神上的现实,排除B;根据"Pound and his friends thought that images (意象) weren't just decoration:they were the highest form of speech."可知,Pound 和他的朋友是意象派的代表,说明他们主张使用意象来表达想法,故选D.
点评 阅读理解题测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力,要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系,对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断;或根据作者所阐述的观点理论,对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释.考生首先要仔细阅读短文,完整了解信息,准确把握作者观点.
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