2006年考研英语阅读真题及解析【第四篇】(2006年考研英语一阅读答案及解析)

passage4注解：标题为红色，翻译为蓝色，分析为绿色。????????many things make people think artists are weird. but the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
????????this wasn’t always so. the earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. but somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony(非正式)虚伪的 or, worst of all, boring, as we went from wordsworth’s daffodils to baudelaire’s flowers of evil.
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1.phony(非正式)虚伪的=hypocrisy.n.
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????????you could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery. but it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual长期的 war, disaster and the massacre屠杀，残杀 of innocents. the reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
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1.massacre屠杀，残杀=mass大量+acre英亩=为了大量英亩的土地而屠杀=为了殖民地而屠杀
2.too much damn太多该死的
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????????after all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? advertising. the rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
????????people in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. they worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. in the west, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer<非正式>讨厌的事 too.
????????today the messages the average westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling. our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. and since these messages have an agenda—to lure us to open our wallets—they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. “celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis关节炎 drug celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
????????but what we forget—what our economy depends on us forgetting—is that happiness is more than(is more than这里的is more than是表示的意思。)?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 art to tell us, as religion once did, memento mori: remember 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[植][中医]丁香 cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.

一、文章结构分析本文是一篇关于艺术作用的文章。
前三段回顾了艺术在每个阶段上承担的作用并分析了原因。
第四、五、六段集中探讨早期快乐和现代快乐的不同的艺术表现形式以及早期艺术家更多地关注快乐和现代艺术家更多地关注悲哀的原因；
最后一段作者给出了自己对现代艺术的观点，他认为现代人被过多表现快乐的艺术所包围，需要被痛苦和悲哀加以警戒。

36. by citing the examples of poets wordsworth and baudelaire, the author intends to show that ________.
[a] poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music
[b] art grows out of both positive and negative feelings
[c] poets today are less skeptical of happiness
[d] artists have changed their focus of interest
36．作者引用诗人华兹华斯和波德莱尔的例子是想说明 。
[a] 诗歌不像绘画和音乐一样表达欢乐
[b] 艺术既产生于正面情感也产生于负面情感中
[c] 如今的诗人对欢乐很少产生怀疑
[d] 艺术家们已经改变了他们的兴趣焦点

37. the word “bummer” (line 5, paragraph 5) most probably means something ________.
[a] religious
[b] unpleasant
[c] entertaining
[d] commercial
37．第五段第五行的单词“bummer”最可能的含义是指 事物。
[a] 宗教的
[b] 不愉快的
[c] 娱乐的
[d] 商业的

38. in the author’s opinion, advertising ________.
[a] emerges in the wake of the anti-happy art
[b] is a cause of disappointment for the general public
[c] replace the church as a major source of information
[d] creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself
38．按照作者的观点，广告 。
[a] 随着反快乐艺术而出现
[b] 是引起公众失望的原因
[c] 代替教堂成为主要的信息来源
[d] 创造快乐的假象而不是快乐本身

39. we can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes ________.
[a] happiness more often than not ends in sadness
[b] the anti-happy art is distasteful but refreshing
[c] misery should be enjoyed rather than denied
[d] the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms
39．从最后一段中我们可以得知作者认为 。
[a] 快乐多数情况下以悲伤告终
[b] 反快乐艺术令人不悦但却使人头脑清醒
[c] 应该以苦难为乐，而不是否定它30
[d] 经济繁荣时反快乐艺术也盛行

40. which of the following is true of the text?
[a] religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.
[b] art provides a balance between expectation and reality.
[c] people feel disappointed at the realities of modern society.
[d] mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.
40．根据文章内容，下面哪一个正确？
[a] 宗教过去的功能是提醒痛苦的存在。
[b] 艺术提供了期望与现实间的平衡。
[c] 人们对现代社会的现实感到失望。
[d] 大众传媒倾向于报道灾难和死亡。

二、核心词汇与超纲词汇1. weird a. 不自然的，怪异的
2. phony a. 假装的，伪造的 n. 冒充者，赝品
3. skeptical adj. 怀疑性的，好怀疑的
4. misery n. 痛苦，悲惨，穷困
5. perpetual adj. 永久的，不断的；一再重复的
6. massacre n./ v. 大屠杀，残杀
7. innocent adj. 清白的，天真的，无知的
8. depict vt. 描绘，描写
9. reminder n. 引起回忆的事物，提醒人的事物
10. literacy n. 有文化，有教养，有读写能力
11. bummer n. 令人失望或不愉快的局面
12. feature v. 以……为特色，是……的特征
13. beam n. 光线，横梁 v. 笑容满面
14. agenda n. 议程
15. lure vt. 诱惑；引诱 n. 诱惑力；诱惑物
三、阅读答案：d b d b a四、全文翻译：?????????许多事情使人们认为艺术家是怪人。而最怪异的可能是：艺术家唯一的工作就是探索情感，但他们却将焦点投向负面的情感。
????????情况并不总是如此。最早的艺术形式，如绘画和音乐，是最适合表达欢乐的。但是从 19 世纪的某个时候开始，当我们从华兹华斯的《水仙花》转向波德莱尔的《恶之花》时，越来越多的艺术家开始把快乐看作是毫无意义的、虚伪的甚至是令人厌倦的东西。
????????你可能认为艺术对快乐产生越来越多的怀疑是因为现代社会经历了太多的痛苦。但是这并不是说以前的时代就没有经历过连年的战争、灾难和滥杀无辜。事实上，原因可能正好相反：如今的世界上有太多的快乐了。
????????归根结底，几乎完全致力于描绘快乐的那种现代表达方式究竟是什么？广告。反快乐艺术的兴起，几乎与大众传媒同时出现，并且，随着它的出现产生了一种商业文化，在这种文化氛围中，快乐不仅是一种理想，而且成为一种意识形态。
????????早些时代的人们处于令人处处想到悲苦的境地。他们工作到筋疲力尽，生活几乎没有保障，最后英年早逝。在西方，在大众传播和教育普及之前，最强大的大众传媒是教堂，教堂提醒信徒，他们的灵魂处于危险之中，他们有一天会成为蛆虫的食物。有了这一切，他们无需艺术再来表现这种失落感。
????????如今一个普通西方人面对的信息轰炸不是宗教的，而是商业的，而且是永远快乐的。快餐食客、新闻主播、收发短信者，都在微笑、微笑、微笑。我们的杂志刊登满面春风的名人和美满幸福的家庭。由于这样的信息都有一项任务——诱使我们打开钱包——从而使“快乐”的概念本身显得虚假。“欢庆吧！”宣传关节炎良药西乐葆的广告这样鼓动道，随后我们却发现它能增加心脏病的发病率。
????????但是我们所忘记的——我们的经济依赖我们忘却的——是：快乐绝不仅仅是没有痛苦的快乐。带来最大快乐的东西也最有可能带有损失和失望。如今，我们的周围充斥着唾手可得的幸福的承诺，我们需要艺术来告诉我们，正如宗教曾经告诉过我们的：记得你终将死亡，一切都会结束，幸福的到来不是因为否认这一点，而是对其加以忍受。这一启示甚至比叶子烟还要苦，但却不知何故带来了一缕清新的空

气。