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1、2022年考博英语-华东交通大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.This wasnt always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best
2、 suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworths daffodils to Baudelaires flowers of evil.You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have see
3、n such misery. But its not as if earlier times didnt know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depi
4、cting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with
5、 few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bum
6、mer too.Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have
7、 an agenda to lure us to open our wallets they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. “Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.But what we forget what our economy depends on is forgetting is that happine
8、ss is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, an
9、d that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. Its a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.1. By citing the example of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that（ ）2.The word “bummer” (Line 4. paragraph 5) most p
10、robably means something（ ）.3.In the authors opinion, advertising（ ）.4.We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes（ ）5.Which of the following is true of the text?问题1选项A.poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music.B.art grow out of both positive and negative feeling.C.art
11、ist have changed their focus of interest.D.poets today are less skeptical of happiness.问题2选项A.unpleasantB.religiousC.entertainingD.commercial问题3选项A.emerges in the wake of the anti-happy partB.creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itselfC.replace the church as a major source of infor
12、mationD.is a cause of disappointment for the general public问题4选项A.happiness more often than not ends in sadness.B.the anti-happy art is distasteful by refreshing.C.misery should be enjoyed rather than denied.D.the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms.问题5选项A.Mass media are inclined to cover d
13、isasters and deaths.B.Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.C.People feel disappointed at the realities of morality.D.Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.【答案】第1题:C第2题:A第3题:B第4题:B第5题:D【解析】1.判断推理题。题目问的是：作者以诗人华兹华斯和波德莱尔为例，意在说明什么？根据关键词“Wordsworth and Baudelaire”定位到第二段最后一句But
14、 somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworths daffodils to Baudelaires flowers of evil.（但是在19世纪的某个时候，越来越多的艺术家开始认为幸福是平淡的、虚假的，或者更糟糕的是，令人厌烦的，这点可以从威廉华兹华斯的水仙花到波德莱尔把鲜花描述为邪恶的转变之中看出。）本段前面的内容还提及“最早的艺术形式，如绘画和音乐，是最适合表达
15、快乐的”，前后形成对比构成了转折关系，作者是想表达艺术家们改变了他们的关注点，过去的艺术形式是表达幸福和快乐，现在是虚假的幸福。所以选项C正确。2.词义推断题。题目问的是：下面哪一个词与“bummer”意思相近？根据题干信息定位到第五段最后两句In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would s
16、omeday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.（在西方的大众传媒和教育普及之前，最强大的传播媒介就是教堂，它提醒信徒，他们的灵魂处于危险之中，他们总有一天会成为蠕虫的食物。考虑到这一切，他们并不需要自己的艺术也成为一个失败者。）关键词在于“too”，由此可推测“bummer”的意思与上一句有关联，表示的是消极负面的意义，所以选项A与之意思最为接近。3.细节事实题。题目问的是：作者认为广告是怎样的？根据第六段的倒数第二句And since these messages hav
