Question

Susan Sontag (1933 — 2004)was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature.For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything — to read every book worth reading ,to see every movie worth seeing .When she was still in her early 30s,publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life ,trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art .With great effort and serious judgment . Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

    Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords(格言),but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious,she argued for a true openness to the pleasures of pop culture.In “Notes on Camp”,the 1964 essay that first made her name ,she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous .“Notes on Camp”,she wrote,represents“a victory of ‘form’over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”.

     By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感觉论者）, but by nature she was a moralist （伦理学者）,and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s , it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities（被压抑的性格）, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact , re-examining old positions was her lifelong lifelong habit.

    In America,her story of a 19th  century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.“Sometimes,”she once said ,“I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.”And in the end ,she made us take it seriously too.

71.The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.

A.was a symbol of American cultural life           B.developed world literature,film and art

C.published many essays about world culture

D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture

72.She first won her name through ___________.

A. her story of a Polish actress                          B. her book Illness as Metaphor

C. publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review

D. her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

73.According to the passage,Susan Sontag__________.

A. was a sensualist as well as a moralist                            B.  looked down upon the pop culture

C. thought content was more important than form      

D. blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

74.As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit , she __________.

A.  misunderstood the idea of seriousness                  B.  re-examined old positions

C.  argued for an openess to pop culture                    D.  preferred morals to beauty

75.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________-.

A. a tireless, all-purpose cultural view        B. her lifelong watchword ：seriousness

C. publishing books on morals             D. enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

Answer 1

71—75：DDABA

解析:

71．解析：这是一道推断题。从句子本意是“Sontag走在世界文学最晚的边界”，从时间上来讲，“最晚的发生的”意思是“最新的发生的”；而且的一段前面也讲到Sontag努力跟上文学、电影和艺术的新发展。因此，本句含义是“Sontag跟上世界文学最新发展的步伐”。

72．解析：这是一道推断题。第二段讲到，Notes on Camp使他首次成名，而答案中没有这本文章的名字。再看这句话，讲到在Notes on Camp这篇文章的里，她解释了“a little-known set of difficult understandings”。

73．解析：这是一道推断题。第三段第一句By convention she was a sensualist, but by nature she was a moralist ，可知她既是感觉论者，又是伦理学者，因此选A。

74．解析：这是一道推断题。本题问的是Sontag的终生习惯，从第三段最后一句 re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit可以判断，她的终生习惯是“re-examine old positions”。

75．解析：这是一道推断题。本题问的是Sontag持久的名声，从最后一段第二句 But it was a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.可知选A。