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2010年考研英语(一)阅读全真试题
Section IIReading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts.Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B,CorD.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.( 40 points)past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline inthe sco pc and seriousness of their arts coverage.forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-citynewspapers.Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticismpublished in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.To readsuch books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemedsuitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.England between the tumofthe20th century and the eve of World War II, at a timewhen newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornamentto the publications in which it appeared.In those far-off days, it was taken for grantedthat the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the eventsthey covered.Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore theirlc arning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted toOf all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during theIt is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age ofWe are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published inknow what ths yw re abou.Thsemenbeledinjoumai masaLa ling, a were资】proud to be published in the daily press.“So few authors have brains enough or literarygit enough to keep thir own end up in our aim, Newman wie.halitempted to define'journalism'as*a term of contempt applied by writers who are notread to writers who are'.”
Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten.Neville Card us, who wroteIs there any chance that Card us's criticism will enjoy a revival?The prospect seems[A] arts criticism has disappeared from big-city newspapers[B] English-language newspapers used to carry more arts reviews[C] high-qualty newspapers retain a large body of readers[D] young readers doubt the sut ability of crt icis mon dailies[A] free themes[B] casual style[C] elaborate layout[D] radical viewpoints[A] It is writers'duty to fulfill journalistic goals[B] It is contemp ible for wrt ers to be journal is.众号【【无忧考资】[D] Not all writers are capable of jou mn a listic writing[A] His music criticism may not appeal to readers today[B] His reputation as a music critic has i ong been in dispute.[C] His style caters largely to modem specialists[D] His writings fail to follow the amateur tradition.[B] The Lost Horizon in Newspapers[C] Mou m ful Decline of Journalism[D] Prominent Critics in Memory
Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are calledCurbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it wasfor the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is nowknown solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.During his lifetime, though,he was also one of England's foremost classical-music critics, a stylist so widelyadmired that his Autobiography(1947) became a bestseller.He was knighted in 1967the first music critic to be so honored.Yet only one of his books is now in print, and hisvast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialistsremote.Jour ma listic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readershave lile use for the richly upholstered Vic ward ian prose in which he specializedMoreover, the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat
2l.It is indicated in Paragraphs land 2 that22.Newspaper reviews in Eng and before World War II were character zed by__23.Which of the following would Shaw and Newman most probably agree on?[C] Wrrsarekeyobetempedintoj our el:更多考研资源24.What can be lea med about Card us according to the last two paragraphs?25.What would be the best tile for the text?[A] Newspapers of the Good Old Daysbusinessmethods.Amazon.comreceived one for its“one-click online payment system.Merrill Lynch got legal protection for an asset allocation strategy.One inventor patenteda technique for lifting a boxNow the nation'stop patent court appears completely ready to scale back onbusiness-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were firstauthorized 10 years ago.In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz, the U.SCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct abroad review of business-method patents.In re Bil ski, as the case is known, is“averybig deal , says Dennis D.Crouch of the University of Missouri School of Law.It“hasthe potential to eliminate an entire class of patents. the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-caedS tae Sreet Bank case, appro vgapaosonatyofpoligaute-d ind资】assets.That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent fi ings, initiallyby emer ng Internet companies ying to sake out eschsierghtstospecfeypes ofonline transactions.Later, more established companies raced to add such patents to theirfiles, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might beat them to the punch.In
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