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（二）When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it isadvisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetchedand unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is poible that in yearsto come they may be regarded as normal.With regard to Futurist poetry,however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be―evenadmitting that the theory on which it is based may be right―it canhardly be claed as Literature.This, in brief, is what the Futurist says: for a century, pastconditions of life have been conditionally speeding up, till now we live in aworld of noise and violence and speed.Consequently, our feelings, thoughts andemotions have undergone a corresponding change.This speeding up of life, saysthe Futurist, requires a new form of expreion.We must speed up ourliterature too, if we want to interpret modern stre.We must pour out a largestream of eential words, unhampered by stops, or qualifying adjectives, orfinite verbs.Instead of describing sounds we must make up words that imitatethem;we must use many sizes of type and different colored inks on the samepage, and shorten or lengthen words at will.Certainly their descriptions of battles are confused.But it is alittle upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describesa fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which theyboth fall into the river—and then to find that the line consists of the noise of theirfalling and the weights of the officers: “ Pluff!Pluff!Ahundred and eighty-five kilograms.”
This, though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futuristpoetry, can hardly be claed as Literature.All the same, no thinking man canrefuse to accept their first proposition: that a great change in our emotionallife calls for a change of expreion.The whole question is really this: havewe eentially changed?
19.This paage is mainly____.[A]a survey of new approaches to art
[B]a review of Futurist poetry
[C]about merits of the Futurist movement
[D]about laws and requirements of literature
20.When a novel literary idea appears, people should try to_____.[A]determine its purposes
[B]ignore its flaws
[C]follow the new fashions
[D]accept the principles
21.Futurists claim that we must____.[A]increase the production of literature
[B]use poetry to relieve modern stre
[C]develop new modes of expreion
[D]avoid using adjectives and verbs
22.The author believes that Futurist poetry is____.[A]based on reasonable principles
[B]new and acceptable to ordinary people
[C]indicative of basic change in human nature
[D]more of a transient phenomenon than literature
Aimlene has hardly been typical of the postwar Japan whoseproductivity and social harmony are the envy of the United States and Europe.But increasingly the Japanese are seeing a decline of the traditionalwork-moral values.Ten years ago young people were hard-working and saw theirjobs as their primary reason for being, but now Japan has largely fulfilled itseconomic needs, and young people don t know where they should go next.The coming of age of the postwar baby boom and an entry of women intothe male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities of teen-agers whoare already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbingJapan s rigid social ladder to good schools and jobs.In a recent survey, itwas found that
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only 24.5 percent of Japanese students were fully satisfied withschool life, compared with 67.2 percent of students in the United States.Inaddition, far more Japanese workers expreed diatisfaction with their jobsthan did their counterparts in the 10 other countries surveyed.While often praised by foreigners for its emphasis on the basics,Japanese education tends to stre test taking and mechanical learning overcreativity and self-expreion.“Those things that do not show up in the test scores—personality,ability, courage or humanity―are completely ignored,” says Toshiki Kaifu,chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party s education committee.“Frustrationagainst this kind of thing leads kids to drop out and run wild.” Last yearJapan experienced 2,125 incidents of school violence, including 929 aaults onteachers.Amid the outcry, many conservative leaders are seeking a return tothe prewar emphasis on moral education.Last year Mitsuo Setoyama, who was theneducation minister, raised eyebrows when he argued that liberal reformsintroduced by the American occupation authorities after World WarⅡ hadweakened the “Japanese morality of respect for parents.”
But that may have more to do with Japanese life-styles.“ In Japan,” sayseducator Yoko Muro, “it s never a question of whether you enjoy your job and your life,but only how much you can endure.” With economic growth has come centralization;fully 76 percent ofJapan s 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extendedfamily have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two generation households.Urban Japanese have long endured lengthy commutes and crowded living conditions, but as the old group and family values weaken,the discomfort is beginning to tell.In the past decade, the Japanese divorcerate, while still well below that of the United States, has increased by morethan 50 percent, and suicides have increased by nearly one-quarter.23.In the Westerners’ eyes, the postwar Japan was_____.[A]under aimle development
[B]a positive example
[C]a rival to the West
[D]on the decline
24.According to the author, what may chiefly be responsible for themoral decline of Japanese society?
[A]Women s participation in social activities is limited.[B]More workers are diatisfied with their jobs.[C]Exceive emphasis has been placed on the basics.[D]The life-style has been influenced by Western values.25.Which of the following is true according to the author?
[A]Japanese education is praised for helping the young climb thesocial ladder
[B]Japanese education is characterized by mechanical learning aswell as creativity.[C]More stre should be placed on the cultivation of creativity.[D]Dropping out leads to frustration against test taking.26.The change in Japanese life-style is revealed in the factthat____.[A]the young are le tolerant of discomforts in life.[B]the divorce rate in Japan exceeds that in the U.S.[C]the Japanese endure more than ever before
[D]the Japanese appreciate their present life
Being a man has always been dangerous.There are about 105 malesborn for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age ofmaturity, and among 70-year-olds there are twice as many women as men.But thegreat universal of male mortality is being changed.Now, boy babies survivealmost as well as girls do.This means that, for the first time, there will bean exce of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate.More important, another chance for natural selection has been removed.Fiftyyears ago, the chance of a baby surviving http://www.daodoc.com
depended onits weight.A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death.Todayit makes almost no difference.Since much of the variation is due to genes, onemore agent of evolution has gone.There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, buthave fewer children.Few people are as fertile as in the past.Except in somereligious communities, very few women have 15 children.Nowadays the number ofbirths, like the age of death, has become average.Most of us have roughly thesame number of offspring.Again, differences between people and the opportunityfor natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished.India shows whatis happening.The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities andpoverty for the remaining tribal peoples.The grand mediocrity of today―everyonebeing the same in survival and number of offspring means that natural selectionhas lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-cla India compared to the tribes.For us, this means that evolution is over;the biological Utopia hasarrived.Strangely, it has involved little physical change.No other speciesfills so many places in nature.But in the past 100,000 years—even thepast 100 years—our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not.We did notevolve, because machines and society did it for us.Darwin had a phrase todescribe those ignorant of evolution: “they look at anorganic being as average looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond hiscomprehension.” No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyondcomprehension for its ugline.But however amazed our descendants may be athow far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us.15.What used to be the danger in being a man according to the firstparagraph?
[A]A lack of mates.[B]A fierce competition.[C]A lower survival rate.[D]A defective gene.16.What does the example of India illustrate?
[A]Wealthy people tend to have fewer children than poor people.[B]Natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor.[C]The middle cla population is 80% smaller than that of thetribes.[D]India is one of the countries with a very high birth rate.17.The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolvingbecause____.[A]life has been improved by technological advance
[B]the number of female babies has been declining
[C]our species has reached the highest stage of evolution
[D]the difference between wealth and poverty is disappearing
18.Which of the following would be the best title for the paage?
[A]Sex Ration Changes in Human Evolution
[B]Ways of Continuing Man s Evolution
[C]The Evolutionary Future of Nature
[D]Human Evolution Going Nowhere
