首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
A happy life, according to the Scottish poet James Thomson, consists of "retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books" , among oth
A happy life, according to the Scottish poet James Thomson, consists of "retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books" , among oth
admin
2014-12-11
20
问题
A happy life, according to the Scottish poet James Thomson, consists of "retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books" , among other things. Alice Munro, perhaps the greatest short-story writer of our time, has elected to embrace this bliss, saying last week, "I’m probably not going to write anymore. " An incredulous editor from the National Post had to follow up on whether she really meant it—that last year’s sublimely devastating collection, Dear Life, was it for her. "Oh, yes," the 81-year-old Canadian said, telling disappointed fans to "read the old ones over again. There are lots of them".
Yet if you have ever imagined a typical day in the life of an author, your vision probably resembles Thomson’s. Writing seems like tender labor, and it’s not hard to picture all those quarterly Munro stories—the ones that appear in The New Yorker as regularly as fresh interns—being created from a diet of easy grace, fertilized frequently with tea, long walks, dinners on the porch, and Chekhov readings. Why would anyone have to retire from writing, as if it’s a job with regular hours?
Except it is. John Updike used to rent a one-room office above a restaurant, where he would report to write six days a week. John Cheever famously put on his only suit and rode the elevator with the 9-to-5 crowd, only he would proceed down to the basement to write in a storage room. Robert Caro still puts on a jacket and tie every day and repairs to his 22nd-floor Manhattan office. Authors who corral their duties into daily routines help remind us of the industry of writing. A muse does not pour words into someone’s skull. The drudgery has conquered some of our best wordsmiths. " When you decide ’ to be a writer, ’ you don’t have the faintest idea of what the work is like," Philip Roth, another recent literary retiree, has said about the "stringent exigencies" of literature. "But working at it nearly every day for 50 years . . . turns out to be an extremely taxing job and hardly the pleasantest of human activities. " He e-ven called it "just torture, awful".
Munro has long been able to pensively observe someone and effortlessly penetrate the character’s extraordinary private history. "Nobody bothers anymore to judge her goodness," the critic James Wood has said. "Her reputation is like a good address. " It is as if she can look upon a person and always see the full span of a life. Now she has taken a measure of her years and judged that, at last, she can stop. Let us read the old ones over again. There are lots of them.
According to the last paragraph, Munro is adept in______.
选项
A、drawing drafts
B、perceiving the traits of characters
C、rewriting her works
D、judging someone’s goodness
答案
B
解析
本题针对最后一段内容命题,属于事实细节考查类题目。此类题目的正确答案一般需要在原文相关内容中寻找。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GeK4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Aperson’shomeisasmuchareflectionofhispersonalityastheclotheshewears.Thefoodheeatsandthefriendswithwhomh
Researchonanimalintelligencealwaysmakesmewonderjusthowsmarthumansare.【C1】______thefruit-flyexperimentsdescribedi
Anarrowingofyourworkinterestsisimpliedinalmostanytransitionfromastudyenvironmenttomanagerialorprofessionalwo
Somepeoplesay"It’snotimportant______youwinorlose.Whatisimportantishowyouplaythegame."
Sometimeschildrenhavetrouble______factfromfictionandmaybelievethatsuchthingsactuallyexist.
"Youareveryselfish.It’shightimeyou______thatyouarenotthemostimportantpersonintheworld,"Edgarsaidtohisboss
AutoIndustryInMichiganInthe20thCentury,theroadtotheAmericanDreambeganinMichigan.Ourstatenotonlyputthe
AircraftRapidDecompressionProblemsWithoutquestion,therapiddecompressionoftheQantasBoeing747thatlandedinMani
Accordingtotheauthor,anidealmarriagelife______.InParagraph2,theword"shackled"means______.
Advancesincomputersanddatanetworksinspirevisionsofafuture"informationeconomy"inwhicheveryonewillhave(1)_____t
随机试题
简述市场细分的步骤。
A、双顶径B、枕额径C、枕下前囟径D、枕颏径E、双颞径胎头最大的横径是()
使用强心苷类药物治疗心衰的重要药理学基础是
A.出血色紫暗夹瘀块B.出血色鲜红C.出血色淡D.出血量大血热证见
美国的房地产经纪行业起步较早,发展较快,规模庞大,作用显著。目前,美国房地产经纪业几乎已渗透到房地产交易市场的每个角落,85%左右的房产买卖都是通过经纪机构来实现的。行业运作规范社会地位较高,受到广大购房或售房者的信任和欢迎。他们在业务操作和组织管理中有着
A注册会计师对某外商投资的制造企业TT公司进行审计,主要是生产电子产品行业,资产主要集中在存货方面,在对重点账项执行审计程序时,需要一些专业判断,请代为判断。
盲人的触觉、听觉一般非常灵敏,这说明了人的身心发展具有()。
下列不属于路由器性能指标的是()。
Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhospitals,stilllessthecontentorqualityofthate
A、Theyencouragemorehomelesspeople.B、Theyareasafetyhazard.C、Theytakeupparkingspaces.D、Theydestroytheneighborhoo
最新回复
(
0
)