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
Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-re
Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-re
admin
2017-12-11
37
问题
Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.
It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers. Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews. To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.
We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared. In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered. Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. These men believed in journalism as a calling, and were proud to be published in the daily press. "So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to ke ep their own end up in journalism," Newman wrote, "that I am tempted to define ’journalism’ as ’a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are’."
Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known 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 widely admired that his Autobiography(1947)became a best-seller. He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored. Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.
Is there any chance that Cardus’s criticism will enjoy a revival? The prospect seems remote. Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized. Moreover, the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat.
What would be the best title for the text?
选项
A、Newspapers of the Good Old Days
B、The Lost Horizon in Newspapers
C、Mournful Decline of Journalism
D、Prominent Critics in Memory
答案
B
解析
主旨题。本文开头即提到英国报纸的艺术评论的衰退趋势,第二、三段回顾20世纪初期至 二战前夕艺术评论的盛况,第四、五段说盛况不在,且复兴前景渺茫。整篇文章都在传达一个信 息:报刊艺术评论逐渐从公众视野中消失,因此B项为正确答案。B项用了比喻手法,the horizon 指“公众视野中的报刊艺术评论”,lost指“衰落”,并涵盖了两大主题词“艺术评论”和“衰落”。A 项中心词为“报纸”,C项中心词为“新闻业”,D项中心词为“评论家”,均不是对文章主题的正确 概括。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/PIBZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
TheaverageBritishpeoplegetsix-and-a-halfhours’sleepanight,accordingtotheSleepCouncil.Ithasbeenknownforsomet
Ifyouhavehighbloodpressure,you’reingood【C1】______.Hypertensionaffects67millionAmericans,includingnearlytwo-third
Aprettypotplantmightmakeanunemotionalworkspacefeelmorepersonal.Butnewresearchhasrevealedthatofficeplantsdo
Doesthelanguagewespeakdeterminehowhealthyandrichwewillbe?NewresearchbyKeithChenofYaleBusinessSchoolsuggest
Itonlytakestenminutes,butreadingyourbabyabedtimestorycouldyieldbenefitsforyearstocome,scientistssaidtoday.
Itonlytakestenminutes,butreadingyourbabyabedtimestorycouldyieldbenefitsforyearstocome,scientistssaidtoday.
Itonlytakestenminutes,butreadingyourbabyabedtimestorycouldyieldbenefitsforyearstocome,scientistssaidtoday.
Inasweepingoverallinspectionofits$21billionMedicaidprogram,theFloridaLegislatureapprovedabilltoshiftnearlyth
Writingforanhistoricalseriesistricky,andtheoutcomeisnotalwaysasuccess.ThebestoverallEuropeanhistoryinEnglis
Thecasino(赌场)atthesmartAtlantisresortonParadiseIslandintheBahamasisbiggerthan20tenniscourts.Touristsflitfr
随机试题
产后血虚受寒,恶露小行,小腹冷痛者,治宜选用()(1991年第39题)
简述无产阶级革命是人类历史上最广泛、最彻底、最深刻的革命的原因。
阅读下面一段古文,解答文后提出的间题。晋靈公不君。厚斂以彫墻;從臺上彈人而觀其辟丸也;宰夫脯熊蹯不孰,殺之,置諸畚,使婦人載以過朝。趙盾、士季見其手,問其故而患之。將諫,士季曰:“諫而不入,則莫之繼也。會請先,不入,則子繼之。”三進及溜,而後視之
试述清创术的要求。
A.经络闭阻B.气机不和C.血行不畅D.筋脉失养E.骨髓失充痉证的主要病机是
某产品的实际成本为10000元,它由多个零部件组成,其中一个零部件的实际成本为880元,功能评价系数为0.140,则该零部件的价值指数为()。
商业助学贷款的申请人申请贷款时需提交的材料包括()。
公民的民事权利能力始于()。
甲公司设有一个基本生产车间及两个辅助生产车间,基本生产车间大量大批生产甲、乙两种产品,辅助生产车间为供电车间、机修车间。2016年3月有关业务资料如下:(1)3月初甲在产品直接材料30万元,直接人工12万元,制造费用8万元,合计50万元。乙产品无在产品
某公司刚刚发布了新的5年战略计划后,该公司的一个项目经理从一个客户那里收到一个新的产品要求,这个要求与公司过去5年战略计划相一致,但不符合新战略计划的目标。该产品描述具有有效的商业驱动,并有助于直接推动公司发展,作为项目经理,恰当的做法是________。
最新回复
(
0
)