题目内容
Susan Sontag (1933 -- 2004) was one of the most noticeable 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, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American cultural 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 watchwords (格言), 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 pleasures 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 conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist (伦理学者), and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. 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 (被压抑的个性), 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 a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, 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 tree seriousness." And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.
71. The underlined sentence in Paragraph I 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
72. She first won her name through_______.
A. her story of a Polish actress B. her book Illness as Metaphor
C. publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review
D. her explanation of a set of difficult understandings
73. According to the passage, Susan Sontag____.
A. was a sensualist as well as a moralist B. looked down upon the pop culture
C. thought content was more important than form
D. blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed
74. As for Susan Sontag's lifelong habit, she______.
A. misunderstood the idea of seriousness B. re-examined old positions
C. argued for an openness to pop culture D. preferred morals to beauty
75. Susan Sontag's lasting fame was made upon _____ .
A. a tireless, all-purpose cultural view B. her lifelong watchword: seriousness
C. publishing books on morals
D. enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing
--Susan, will you please go and empty the drawer?
--________?
A. What for B. What is it C. How is it D. How come
假定你是李华，你班同学决定为小明举办生日聚会。请你写信邀请外教Susan参加，要点包括：1. 时间：周五晚8点至9点2. 地点：学生俱乐部3. 内容：生日歌、蛋糕、游戏等4. 要求：备小礼物注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3. 答案必须写在答题卡相应的位置Hi Susan,We’re throwing a surprise party for Xiaoming’s birthday. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Yours,Li Hua
The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image(印象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team.” They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall.”I always tell them when L’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome,who is now 21,agrees.”Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments,” Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”
1.What is the popular images of teenagers today?
A．They worry about school
B．They dislike living with their parents
C．They have to be locked in to avoid troubles
D．They quarrel a lot with other family members
2.The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___
A．share family responsibility
B．cause trouble in their families
C．go boating with their family
D．make family decisions
3.Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents___.
A．go to clubs more often with their children
B．are much stricter with their children
C．care less about their children’s life
D．give their children more freedom
4.According to the authour,teenage rebellion____.
A．may be a false belief B．is common nowadays
C．existed only in the 1960s D．resulted from changes in families
5.What is the passage mainly about?
A．Negotiation in family B．Education in family
C．Harmony in family D．Teenage trouble in family
苏格兰歌手“苏珊大妈” 凭借选秀节目《英国达人》在2009年脱颖而出。她的故事仿佛一部现代童话，带给无数人启迪。
请你根据下面的素材写一篇80～120词的英语作文，介绍苏珊大妈的经历，并谈谈她的成名经历给你的启发。
1. 苏珊·波伊儿(Susan Boyle) 从小梦想成为职业歌手；
2. 苏珊多次参加选秀节目被拒，但她从不放弃梦想；
3. 2009年4月，47岁的苏珊参加了《英国达人》(Britain’s Got Talent)，一曲《我曾有梦》(I Dreamed A Dreamed)使她成名，并最终圆了她的歌手梦。
参考词汇：职业的 professional; 激励 inspire
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