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
外语
How does literary style evolve? Surprisingly,(1)_____ lie in words with seemingly little meaning, such as "to" and "that". B
How does literary style evolve? Surprisingly,(1)_____ lie in words with seemingly little meaning, such as "to" and "that". B
admin
2013-11-10
29
问题
How does literary style evolve? Surprisingly,(1)_____ lie in words with seemingly little meaning, such as "to" and "that".
By analysing(2)_____ writers use such "content-free" words, Daniel Rockmore and colleagues at Dartmouth College in Hanover were able to conduct the first, large-scale style analysis of literature.
Content-free words are(3)_____ of writing style, Rockmore says. While two authors might use the(4)_____ content words to describe a similar event, they will use content-free words to(5)_____ their content words in a different way.
Using the Project Gutenberg digital library, Rockmore’s team analysed 7733 English language works written since 1550,(6)_____ how often and in what(7)_____ content-free words appeared. As you might expect, they found that writers were(8)_____ influenced by their predecessors.
They also found that as the number of literature works grew, the influence of older works (9)_____. Authors in the(10)_____ periods wrote in a very similar way to one another, the researchers found, probably because they all read the same(11)_____ body of literature. But approaching the modern era,(12)_____ more people were writing and more works were(13)_____ from many eras and numerous styles, authors’ styles were still very similar to those of their(14)_____ contemporaries. "It’s as if they find dialects in time," says Alex Bentley. " Content is what makes us(15)______, but content-free words put us in different(16)_____."
(17)_____ writers should be most influenced by their contemporaries(18)_____ the great works of the past is interesting, Rockmore says, because it challenges the(19)_____ of "classic" literature. When it comes to style(20)______, perhaps we aren’t so strongly influenced by the classics after all.
(11)
选项
A、small
B、entire
C、extensive
D、diverse
答案
A
解析
空格所在句前后都提及随着时间推移,涌现出的文学作品越来越多,相比之下早期的文学作品数量较少,因此选A。entire“全部的”;exten-sive“广泛的”;diverse“多样的”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/MNGK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Before1850s,whatwasanAmericancollegeusedfor?
AnewPresidentinPakistanwillbeelectedby
Amotelisusuallyforpeoplewho
ThefollowingcountrieshavereachedanagreementonclimatechangeEXCEPT
ThefollowingcountrieshavereachedanagreementonclimatechangeEXCEPT
Acutelittlefemaleaboutsixincheshigh,withwingsandaprettydressistheusualdescriptionpeoplegiveifyouaskthemw
HowmanypeoplediedintheviolentearthquakethatshookLosAngelesin1994?
Duringthewholeofadark,cloudydayneartheendoftheyearIhadbeen【C1】______myhorsealongcountryroadswithlittleli
Duringthewholeofadark,cloudydayneartheendoftheyearIhadbeen【C1】______myhorsealongcountryroadswithlittleli
Igrewupdeprivedofhugs.Neitherofmyparentswasthecuddlytype.Greetingsinvolvingkissingcausedmetowince,andhuggi
随机试题
下列选项中,关于培训与开发效果评估的说法,正确的是()。
下述不支持胎膜早破诊断的是
下列提法中,不正确的有()。
从业人员要做到求同存异,正确的做法有()。
分解练习法多用于简单动作的训练,而完整训练法则更多地适用于复杂的技术动作。()
工农民主政权时期的土地立法文件有()。
下列各句中,句意明确、没有歧义的一句是:
孩子出生后的第一年在托儿所度过,会引发孩子的紧张不安。在我们的研究中,有464名12~13岁的儿童接受了特异情景测试法的测验,该项测验意在测试儿童1岁时的状况与对母亲的依附心理之间的关系。其结果:有41.5%曾在托儿所看护的儿童和25.7%曾在家看护的儿童
(2006年试题,22)设随机变量X的概率密度为令Y=X2,F(x,y)为二维随机变量(X,Y)的分布函数.求Y的概率密度fy(y);
A、Lackofcleanwater.B、Lackofelectricity.C、Shortageofexperts.D、Shortageofbooks.C
最新回复
(
0
)