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1、智 课 网 G R E 备 考 资 料新GRE阅读模拟题训练及答案（11）-智课教育旗下智课教育新GRE阅读模拟题训练及答案 “Masterpieces are dumb,” wrote Flaubert, “They have a tranquil aspect like the very products of nature, like large animals and mountains.” He might have been thinking of War and Peace, that vast, silent work, unfathomable and simple, pro
2、voking endless questions through the majesty of its being. Tolstois simplicity is “overpowering,” says the critic Bayley, “disconcerting,” because it comes from “his casual assumption that the world is as he sees it.” Like other nineteenth-century Russian writers he is “impressive” because he “means
3、 what he says,” but he stands apart from all others and from most Western writers in his identity with life, which is so complete as to make us forget he is an artist. He is the center of his work, but his egocentricity is of a special kind. Goethe, for example, says Bayley, “cared for nothing but h
4、imself. Tolstoi was nothing but himself.”For all his varied modes of writing and the multiplicity of characters in his fiction, Tolstoi and his work are of a piece. The famous “conversion” of his middle years, movingly recounted in his Confession, was a culmination of his early spiritual life, not a
5、 departure from it. The apparently fundamental changes that led from epic narrative to dogmatic parable, from a joyous, buoyant attitude toward life to pessimism and cynicism, from War and Peace to The Kreutzer Sonata, came from the same restless, impressionable depths of an independent spirit yearn
6、ing to get at the truth of its experience. “Truth is my hero,” wrote Tolstoi in his youth, reporting the fighting in Sebastopol. Truth remained his herohis own, not others, truth. Others were awed by Napoleon, believed that a single man could change thedestinies of nations, adhered to meaningless ri
7、tuals, formed their tastes on established canons of art. Tolstoi reversed all preconceptions; and in every reversal he overthrew the “system,” the “machine,” the externally ordained belief, the conventional behavior in favor of unsystematic, impulsive life, of inward motivation and the solutions of
8、independent thought. In his work the artificial and the genuine are always exhibited in dramatic opposition: the supposedly great Napoleon and the truly great, unregarded little Captain Tushin, or Nicholas Rostovs actual experience in battle and his later account of it. The simple is always pitted a
9、gainst the elaborate, knowledge gained from observation against assertions of borrowed faiths. Tolstois magical simplicity is a product of these tensions; his work is a record of the questions he put to himself and of the answers he found in his search. The greatest characters of his fiction exempli
10、fy this search, and their happiness depends on the measure of their answers. Tolstoi wanted happiness, but only hard-won happiness, that emotional fulfillment and intellectual clarity which could come only as the prize of all-consuming effort. He scorned lesser satisfactions.21. Which of the followi
11、ng best characterizes the authors attitude toward Tolstoi? (A) She deprecates the cynicism of his later works. (B) She finds his theatricality artificial. (C) She admires his wholehearted sincerity. (D) She thinks his inconsistency disturbing. (E) She respects his devotion to orthodoxy. 22. Which of
12、 the following best paraphrases Flauberts statement quoted in lines 1-4? (A) Masterpiece seem ordinary and unremarkable from the perspective of a later age.(B) Great works of art do not explain themselves to us any more than natural objects do. (C) Important works of art take their place in the page
13、ant of history because of their uniqueness. (D) The most important aspects of good art are the orderliness and tranquility it reflects. (E) Masterpieces which are of enduring value represent the forces of nature. 23. The author quotes from Bayley (line 8-20) to show that (A) although Tolstoi observe
14、s and interprets life, he maintains no self-conscious distance from his experience (B) the realism of Tolstois work gives the illusion that his novels are reports of actual events (C) unfortunately, Tolstoi is unaware of his own limitation, though he is sincere in his attempt to describe experience
15、(D) although Tolstoi works casually and makes unwarranted assumption, his work has an inexplicable appearance of truth (E) Tolstois personal perspective makes his work almost unintelligible to the majority of his readers 24. The author states that Tolstois conversion represented(A) a radical renunci
16、ation of the world (B) the rejection of avant-garde ideas (C) the natural outcome of his earlier beliefs (D) the acceptance of religion he had earlier rejected (E) a fundamental change in his writing style 25. According to the passage, Tolstois response to the accepted intellectual and artistic values of his times was to (A) select the most valid from among them (B) combine opposing viewpoints into a new doctrine (C) reject the claims of religion in order to serve his art (D) subvert
