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
Many things make people think artists are weird—the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes. However, the weirdest ma
Many things make people think artists are weird—the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes. However, the weirdest ma
admin
2010-01-13
62
问题
Many things make people think artists are weird—the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes. However, the weirdest may be this: artists’ only jobs are to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel lousy. This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th(上标) century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring. In the 20th(上标) century, classical music became more atonal, visual art more unsettling.
Sure, there have been exceptions, but it would not be a stretch to say that for the past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824, Beethoven completed his "Ode to Joy". In 1962, novelist Anthoy Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite music of his ultra-violent antihero.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But the reason may actually be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Today the messages that the average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and relentlessly happy. Since these messages have an agenda—to prey our wallets from our pockets—they make the very idea of happiness seem bogus(假的). "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attack.
What we forget—what our economy depends on us forgetting—is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us that it is OK not to be happy, that sadness makes happiness deeper. As the wine-connoisseur movie Sideways tells us, it is the kiss of decay and mortality that makes grape juice into Pinot Norway need art to tell us, as religion once did, that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, is a breath of fresh air.
How could the economy depend on our forgetting things?
选项
A、The economy would not be boosted if everybody were satisfied.
B、There are many new products designed for the forgetful.
C、People will spend more money if we believe in easy happiness.
D、We pay heavily for forgetting things easily.
答案
C
解析
原文最后一段的第一句中讲到:我们所忘记的—我们的经济正是依赖于我们对此的忘记—是,快乐并非仅仅就是没有痛苦的愉悦。言下之意,人们认为快乐是没有痛苦的,是可以轻易地获得的,即,快乐可以轻易地买到,而我们的经济正依赖于此。故选C项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/xami777K
0
在职申硕(同等学力)英语
相关试题推荐
Withthepossibleexceptionofequalrights,perhapsthemostcontroversialissueacrosstheUnitedStatestodayisthedeathpe
Musiccomesinmanyforms;mostcountrieshaveastyleoftheirown.【C1】______theturnofthecenturywhenjazz(爵士乐)wasborn,Am
TodayblackchildreninsouthAfricaarestillreluctanttostudysubjectsfromwhichtheywereeffectivelybarredforsolong.
Revengeisoneofthosethingsthateveryoneenjoys.Peopledon’tliketotalkaboutit,though.Justthesame,thereisnothing
ShouldEnglishclassesbecompulsoryattheelementaryorprimaryschoollevelincountrieswhereitisnotthenativelangue?
(Unable)toseetheirbusinessasaseparateentity,manypeoplefailtomake(a)distinction(between)theircompanyand(them)
Unemploymentseemstobethe______socialprobleminthisareaandmayunderminesocialstability.
Parentscannomorebefriendstotheirchildrenthanteacherscanbetotheirstudents.Fortheessenceoffriendshipisrecipr
A:Fillitupwithregulargasoline,please.B:______
Thenewtechnologyhas(madepossible)forthedoctorto(make)diagnoses(withoutseeing)thepatientin(person).
随机试题
阅读下面的一段文字,然后回答下列小题。孔子曰:“譬如为山,未成一篑,止,吾止也;譬如平地,虽复一篑,进,吾往也。”孟子曰:“有为者,譬若掘井,掘井九仞,而不及泉,犹为弃井也。”成败之数,视此而已。本段文字出自哪篇文章?作者是谁?
该县的总死亡率为结核的发病率为
下列不属于银行代理贵金属业务的是()。
关于组织承诺的说法,正确的是()。
(2017年)西康酒店是一家位于中国西部某著名旅游景区的五星级酒店,为了提升管理水平,西康酒店定期派人去东部旅游景区的五星级酒店学习,从而逐步提升了服务质量和财务业绩。西康酒店进行基准分析的基准类型是()。
有关投标人对投标的组织策划的表述中,不正确的是()。
在学习较复杂的内容时,动机水平()时最有利于学习。
Beforegoingshopping,everyoneexpectstomakethewisebuying.Wisebuyingisapositiveway【C1】______youcanmakeyourmoneyg
Whichofthefollowingwordshasmostmorphemes?
AGuidetoEatingforSportsThereisapieceofgoodnewsthateatingtoreachyourpeakperformancelevellikelydoesn’tr
最新回复
(
0
)