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Chapter 1:新旧信息
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Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionary, flying in the face of what is established and producing not what is acceptable but what will become accepted. According to this formulation, highly creative activity transcends the limits of an existing form and establishes a new principle of organization. However, the idea that extraordinary creativity transcends established limits is misleading when it is applied to the arts, even though it may be valid for the sciences. Differences between highly creative art and highly creative science arise in part from a difference in their goals. For the sciences, a new theory is the goal and end result of the creative act. Innovative science produces new propositions in terms of which diverse phenomena can be related to one another in more coherent ways. Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird are relegated to the role of data, serving as the means for formulating or testing a new theory. The goal of highly creative art is very different: the phenomenon itself becomes the direct product of the creative act. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not a tract about the behavior of indecisive princes or the uses of political power; nor is Picasso’s painting Guernica primarily a propositional statement about the Spanish Civil War or the evils of fascism. What highly creative artistic activity produces is not a new generalization that transcends established limits, but rather an aesthetic particular. Aesthetic particulars produced by the highly creative artist extend or exploit, in an innovative way, the limits of an existing form, rather than transcend that form. This is not to deny that a highly creative artist sometimes establishes a new principle of organization in the history of an artistic field; the composer Monteverdi, who created music of the highest aesthetic value, comes to mind. More generally, however, whether or not a composition establishes a new principle in the history of music has little bearing on its aesthetic worth. Because they embody a new principle of organization, some musical works, such as the operas of the Florentine Camerata, are of signal historical importance, but few listeners or musicologists would include these among the great works of music. On the other hand, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is surely among the masterpieces of music even though its modest innovations are confined to extending existing means. It has been said of Beethoven that he toppled the rules and freed music from the stifling confines of convention. But a close study of his compositions reveals that Beethoven overturned no fundamental rules. Rather, he was an incomparable strategist who exploited limits—the rules, forms, and conventions that he inherited from predecessors such as Haydn and Mozart, Handel and Bach—in strikingly original ways.
1.The author considers a new theory that coherently relates diverse phenomena to one another to be the
A.basis for reaffirming a well-established scientific formulation
B.byproduct of an aesthetic experience
C.tool used by a scientist to discover a new particular
D.synthesis underlying a great work of art E.result of highly creative scientific activity
2.The author implies that Beethoven’s music was strikingly original because Beethoven
A. strove to outdo his predecessors by becoming the first composer to exploit limits
B. fundamentally changed the musical forms of his predecessors by adopting a richly inventive strategy
C.embellished and interwove the melodies of several of the great composers who preceded him
D.manipulated the established conventions of musical composition in a highly innovative fashion E.attempted to create the illusion of having transcended the musical forms of his predecessors
3.The passage supplies information for answering all of the following questions EXCEPT:
A.Has unusual creative activity been characterized as revolutionary?
B.Did Beethoven work within a musical tradition that also included Handel and Bach?
C.Is Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro an example of a creative work that transcended limits?
D. Who besides Monteverdi wrote music that the author would consider to embody new principles of organization and to be of high aesthetic value? E.Does anyone claim that the goal of extraordinary creative activity in the arts differs from that of extraordinary creative activity in the sciences?
4.The author implies that an innovative scientific contribution is one that
A.is cited with high frequency in the publications of other scientists
B.is accepted immediately by the scientific community
C.does not relegate particulars to the role of data
D.presents the discovery of a new scientific fact E.introduces a new valid generalization
Chapter 2:复杂转折
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Astronomers who study planet formation once believed that comets—because they remain mostly in the distant Oort cloud, where temperatures are close to absolute zero—must be pristine relics of the material that formed the outer planets. The conceptual shift away from seeing comets as pristine relics began in the 1970s, when laboratory simulations revealed there was sufficient ultraviolet radiation reaching comets to darken their surfaces and there were sufficient cosmic rays to alter chemical bonds or even molecular structure near the surface. Nevertheless, astronomers still believed that when a comet approached the Sun—where they could study it—the Sun’s intense heat would remove the corrupted surface layer, exposing the interior. About the same time, though, scientists realized comets might contain decaying radioactive isotopes that could have warmed cometary interiors to temperatures that caused the interiors to evolve.
1.The author suggests that the realization described in the final sentence of the passage had which of the following effects?
A.It introduced a new topic for study by astronomers interested in planetary formation.
B.It led astronomers to adopt a number of different strategies in trying to determine the composition of cometary interiors
C.It called into question an assumption that astronomers had made about comets
D.It cast doubt on astronomers’ ability to study the interior parts of comets.
E. It caused astronomers to revise their account of the composition of the outer planets.
For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
2. It can be inferred that the author would agree with which of the following statements about the “laboratory simulations”?
A.The simulations showed that despite the low temperatures in the Oort cloud, there was sufficient energy there to alter comet
B. Astronomers were initially reluctant to accept what simulation showed about the composition of comets
C.The simulations themselves did not eliminate the possibility that comets contain pristine relics of material from the early solar system.
Chapter3:文章主旨
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Since 1989, the size of Porcupine caribou herd in Alaska has undergone a steady downward trend, declining at a rate of 3 to 4 percent a year. Just why this is happening is not clear. Biologists have not observed marked changes in birthrate or calf survival, nor has there been an increase in the number of predators. Consequently, some biologists have turned their attention to global warming. The rise in spring temperatures may be changing conditions along the migration route in ways that make life difficult for caribou. For example, prematurely soggy snow might force the animals up onto windswept ridge tops, where they are easier prey for wolves.
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. consider possible causes of the decrease in the size of the Porcupine caribou herd since 1989.
B. propose a solution to one of the problems faced by the Porcupine caribou herd as a result of global warming
C. advocate a hypothesis about the nature of the Porcupine caribou herd prior to 1989.
D. discuss how different migration routes affect the Porcupine caribou herd. E. predict changes to the Porcupine caribou herd that will occur as a result of global warming.
Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply
2. The passage suggests which of the following about the migration of the Porcupine caribou herd in Alaska?
A. Prior to 1989, the herd had not been preyed upon by wolves during migration
B. Prior to the rise in spring temperatures, the herd typically did not travel along windswept ridge tops while migrating.
C.The herd has altered its migration pattern in response to predation.
Chapter 4:信息功能
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When literary periods are defined on the basis of men’s writing, women’s writing must be forcibly assimilated into an irrelevant grid: a Renaissance that is not a renaissance for women, a Romantic period in which women played very little part, a modernism with which women conflict. Simultaneously, the history of women’s writing has been suppressed, leaving large, mysterious gaps in accounts of the development of various genres. Feminist criticism is beginning to correct this situation. Margaret Anne Doody, for example, suggests that during “the period between the death of Richardson and the appearance of the novels of Scott and Austen,” which has “been regarded as a dead period,” late-eighteenth-century women writers actually developed “the paradigm for women’s fiction of the nineteenth century—something hardly less than the paradigm of the nineteenth-century novel itself.” Feminist critics have also pointed out that the twentieth-century writer Virginia Woolf belonged to a tradition other than modernism and that this tradition surfaces in her work precisely where criticism has hitherto found obscurities, evasions, implausibilities, and imperfections.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that the author views the division of literature into periods based on men’s writing as an approach that
A. makes distinctions among literary periods ambiguous
B. is appropriate for evaluating only premodern literature
C. was misunderstood until the advent of feminist criticism
D. provides a valuable basis from which feminist criticism has evolved
E. obscures women’s contributions to literature
For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

2. The passage suggests which of the following about Virginia Woolf’s work?
A. Nonfeminist criticism of it has been flawed.
B. Critics have treated it as part of modernism.
C. It is based on the work of late-eighteenth-century women writers.
3. The author quotes Doody most probably in order to illustrate
A. a contribution that feminist criticism can make to literary criticism
B. a modernist approach that conflicts with women’s writing
C. writing by a woman which had previously been ignored
D. the hitherto overlooked significance of Scott’s and Austen’s novels
E. a standard system of defining literary periods "
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