Question

 

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 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 conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感覺論者), but by nature she was a moralist (倫理學(xué)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 caner was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities (被壓抑的個性), 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 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.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

3.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

4.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

5.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

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

【解析】從文中第一段she appeared as the symbol of American cultural life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art.可推斷她能夠跟上世界文學(xué)的發(fā)展步伐。

【考點】推斷題

2.SD

【解析】由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.可知答案。

【考點】細節(jié)題

3.A

【解析】見第三節(jié)第一句可知。

【考點】這是一道細節(jié)題。

4.B

【解析】答案為第三節(jié)最后一句In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

【考點】細節(jié)題

5.A

【解析】本題的關(guān)鍵是抓住提干中的 Susan Sontag’s lasting fame來尋找答案線索，在最后一節(jié)中不難找到它的蹤影“But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.”

【考點】細節(jié)題。

【備考建議】高考閱讀理解要注意：1. 名詞或代詞的指代關(guān)系是高考閱讀理解�？嫉囊环N題型，要求考生能夠理解該代詞或名詞所在的語句，有時也要聯(lián)系上下文去思考。2. 細節(jié)題占的比重大，不能脫離文章去解題，主觀臆斷，文章是解題之本。解答細節(jié)題時要看清題干，常采用排除法。3.推測題往往不會直接告訴讀者，而是要求讀者根據(jù)文章中的某些語句或者段落去進行合理的推測。4.主旨大意題 主旨大意應(yīng)該具有很強的概括性，它不會是某個細節(jié)也不會是某些事實。