英语专业大一泛读（刘乃银版）附加阅读练习（带答案）(6)

1. The author suggests that corporate message should be sent to the consumers primarily by __________.

A. committing to advertising B. improving product quality C. spreading public praise D. attracting more readers

2. According to the author, jargon and marketing waffle are __________.

A. irrelevant B. unintelligible C. professional D. monotonous

3. The author writes most probably in order to chiefly satisfy __________.

A. his desire B. the editors C. the media D. his readers

4. When the author refuses to take the clients‘ quotes, he doesn‘t expect them to think __________.

A. that he is being blackmailed

B. it is because they have taken an ad C. it is because they have pulled their ads D. that he is being professional

5. It can be assumed that the author is __________.

A. a novelist B. an advertiser C. a journalist C. an interviewer

Passage 9 (Unit 9, Book I: Mona Lisa’s Smile. Informational. Art)

Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887), a van Gogh self-portrait done in Paris, is one of his most intriguing yet most neglected works. The artist‘s gloomy eyes stare out from his face in half-profile, facing to the left, and the world-weary expression initially appears to support the view of critics such as James Risser, who explains van Gogh‘s self-portraits as a sustained search for

identity.

Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887) initially appears to comply with Risser‘s evaluation. In this work, the painter depicted himself wearing a jumper of intense blue before a background done almost entirely in gray but with noticeable blurs of blue—most notably in the top right corner. Overall the painting appears to be unfinished, a hastily done portrait that the painter abandoned to create more lasting works.

In its incomplete state we can precisely read ―an unfinished life,‖ and in the wild strokes of casual blue in the background and splashed across the artist‘s garments we are instantly confronted with the sense of growing ―more and more out of control.‖

But is this an accurate evaluation? On the one hand, Risser seems to have legitimate cause for envisioning van Gogh‘s self-portrait as psychological self-analysis, a painting that ―reveals an emotional intensity hiding beneath the surface‖. But is the chaotic surface effect of the blue in this painting actually a form of self-criticism, the artist‘s own intense and emotional despair over his loss of control—or is it representative of an underlying aesthetic whose focus is not the painter himself? An intriguing alternative exists: van Gogh may not have painted the self-portraits as psychoanalytical evaluations of himself, but instead merely as experiments in technique. The artist often stated that he painted himself only because he lacked other models, a view found in the critical work of both Richard Kendall and T.J. Shackelford. Perhaps, then, van Gogh was not trying to learn about himself but about art as a whole while painting these portraits and hence we ought to read the self-portraits as a series of statements about art itself. The key to this analysis may be a careful exploration of the special color symbolism van Gogh attached to the color blue. Unlike our everyday association of blue with melancholy or boredom, the artist imagined blue as a symbol for the infinite or the limitless. Such a view calls into question the idea that self-portraits such as van Gogh‘s Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887) were a psychological profile of the artist‘s melancholy or despair. Instead, when we consider blue‘s special symbolic role as the infinite in van Gogh‘s Paris self-portraits, we discover a new narrative describing the painter‘s own aesthetic: his insistence that the future of art lay in expressive rather than realistic methods.

1. What does James Risser think of van Gogh‘s self-portraits?

A. Different self-portraits represent van Gogh‘s different attitude towards life. B. Many of his self-portraits have been neglected by critics. C. Van Gogh sought for identity through all his self-portraits.

D. Van Gogh expressed his weariness of the world in most of his self-portraits.

2. Which description is mentioned in the second paragraph about van Gogh‘s Self-portrait with a Straw Hat?

A. The painting is not well done. B. The painting mainly used gray.

C. The painter used blue but erased it later. D. The portrait showed a depressed emotion.

3. Who felt that the self-portrait showed ―an unfinished life‖?

A. Van Gogh himself. B. Risser‘s opponents. C. The author. D. James Risser.

4. According to Richard Kendall and T.J. Shackelford, the Self-portrait with a Straw Hat may not have anything to do with __________.

A. van Gogh‘s painting technique B. the symbolism of color

C. the psychological analysis of the painter D. the painter‘s aesthetic

5. According to van Gogh himself, his self-portraits were intended to be __________.

A. narrative B. expressive C. analytic D. artistic

Passage 10 (Unit 10, Book I: London. Informational. British customs and culture.)

Scottish customs and traditions cover a very wide range of topics. Everything from kilts to golf, bagpipes to whisky, Celtic crosses to Protestant missionary work, the \sight\to Nessie.

The history of the bagpipes takes us a long way back from today and far away from Scotland. Everyone thinks about Scotland when they hear the word ―bagpipe‖, but this instrument is so old that true age and origin are unknown. In some historical documents it is written that the pipes were first played somewhere around Asia Minor in 1000 BC. Also, it is said, by some, that \Nero played the \many European countries but in Scotland they have become an integral part of the country's culture. Scotland is the ancestral h …… 此处隐藏：8093字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……