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1、蓝天家教网 http:/ 伴你快乐成长本资料来源于 七彩教育网http:/2009 年高考英语精选阅读训练系列（六）含解析Passage Six (The Present Is the Most Important)Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with
2、such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be , music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent
3、 and absolute existence, -that petty fears and petty pleasure are but the shadow of reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime. By closing the eyes and slumbering, by consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which still is
4、built on purely illusory foundation. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure. I have read in a Hindoo book, that “there was a kings son, who, being expelled in i
5、nfancy from his native city, was brought up by a forester, and, growing up to maturity in that state, imagined himself to belong to the barbarous race with which be lived. One of his fathers ministers having discovered him, revealed to him what he was, and the misconception of his character was remo
6、ved, and he knew himself to be a prince. So soul, from the circumstances in which it is placed, mistakes its own character, until the truth is revealed to it by some holy teacher, and then it knows itself to be Brahme.” We think that that is which appears to be. If a man should give us an account of
7、 the realities he beheld, we should not recognize the place in his des cription. Look at a meeting-house, or a court-house, or a jail, or a shop. Or a dwelling-house, and say what that thing really is before a true gaze, and they would all go to pieces in your account of them. Men esteem truth remot
8、e, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the l
9、apse of all ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spen
10、d our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had as fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. 1. The writers attitude toward the arts is one of A. admiration. B. indifference. C. suspicion. D. repulsion2. The author believes that a child.A. s
11、hould practice what the Hindoos preach.B. frequently faces vital problems better than grownups do.C. hardly ever knows his true origin.D. is incapable of appreciating the arts.3. The author is primarily concerned with urging the reader to A. look to the future for enlightenment. B. appraise the pres
12、ent for its true value.C. honor the wisdom of the past ages. D. spend more time in leisure activities.4. The passage is primarily concerned with problem of 蓝天家教网 http:/ 伴你快乐成长A. history and economics. B. society and population.C. biology and physics. D. theology and philosophy.Vocabulary1. sham 虚伪2.
13、 delusion 欺骗3. fabulous 荒诞无稽的，不存在的4. exhilarating 令人高兴的5. sublime 崇高的6. slumber 睡眠7. Hindoo 印度8. Brahma 婆罗门（贵族）9. come, fall, go to pieces 崩溃，垮台10. culminate 达到顶点11. lapse 时间的推移 /消逝12. apprehend 领悟，理解13. instill （慢慢地）滴注，灌输14. drench 浸泡，使湿透15. posterity 子孙后代16. look to 指望，注意难句译注1. If men would steadi
14、ly observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights Entertainments.结构简析 虚拟条件句，主句中 to compare it with know 是插入语，也有假设之意。参考译文 如果人们坚持只观察现实，不让自己被蒙蔽，那么生活，把它和我们知道的事情相比较，就象神话，象一千零一夜中描述的一切。2. Whe
15、n we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, -that petty fears and petty pleasure are but the shadow of reality.结构简析 主句中两个 that. 第一个是 perceive 的宾语从句。破折号的第二个 that 从句是说明，对比前一个 that 句。参考译文 在我们冷静和明智时，我们会感到只有伟大的和有价值的东西才能永恒绝对地存在，而那些微
16、不足道的恐惧和欢乐仅仅是现实的阴影而已。3. By closing the eyes and slumbering, by consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which still is built on purely illusory foundation.参考译文 闭上眼睛，昏昏欲睡，允许自己被表面现象所蒙蔽，人们通过这些手段来建立和确定他们的生活日程和各种习惯。这仍然是建立在幻（觉）想基础上的东西。4. So soul, from the circumstances in which it is placed, mistakes its own character, un
