36套若干问题

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1、Exer21第一题为什么C不对？
Nevelson says, ―I have always wanted to show the
world that art is everywhere, except that it has to pass
through a creative mind.‖ Using mostly discarded wooden
objects like packing crates, broken pieces of furniture, and
abandoned architectural ornaments, all of which she has
hoarded for years, she assembles architectural constructions
of great beauty and power. Creating very freely with no
sketches, she glues and nails objects together, paints them
black, or more rarely white or gold, and places them in
boxes. These assemblages, walls, even entire environments
create a mysterious, almost awe-inspiring atmosphere.
Although she has denied any symbolic or religious intent in
her works, their three-dimensional grandeur and even their
titles, such as Sky Cathedral and Night Cathedral, suggest
such connotations.                   (124 words)   
1. Which of the following is one way in which Nevel-
    son‘s art illustrates her theory as it is expressed in   
    the first sentence?   
   (A) She sculpts in wood rather than in metal or   
    stone.
   (B) She paints her sculptures and frames them in   
        boxes.
   (C) She makes no preliminary sketches but rather   
        allows the sculpture to develop as she works.
   (D) She puts together pieces of ordinary objects   
    once used for different purposes to make her
    sculptures.
   (E) She does not deliberately attempt to convey   
    symbolic or religious meanings through her   
    sculpture.
2、Exer21第五题为什么D不对？（长阅读）
5. According to information provided by the passage,   
    which of the following stars would astronomers   
    most likely describe as a planetary nebula?
(A) A star that began its life with a mass of   
      5.5 M⊙, has exhausted its nuclear fuel, and
      has a core that is visible to astronomers   
(B) A star that began its life with a mass of 6 M⊙,   
      lost mass at a rate of 1 M⊙  per 10,000 years,   
      and exhausted its nuclear fuel in 40,000 years
   (C) A star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel, has a   
        mass of 1.2 M⊙, and is surrounded by a   
        circumstellar cloud that obscures its core
        from view
   (D) A star that began its life with a mass greater   
    than 6 M⊙, has just recently exhausted its   
    nuclear fuel, and is in the process of releasing
    massive amounts of gravitational energy
   (E) A star that began its life with a mass of   
      5.5 M⊙, has yet to exhaust its nuclear fuel,
        and exhibits a rate of mass loss similar to
        that of IRC+10216
3、Exer21第六题为什么B不对？
―Popular art‖ has a number of meanings, impossible to
define with any precision, which range from folklore to
junk. The poles are clear enough, but the middle tends to
blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930‘s, for example,
has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high
art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad
high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great
popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms,
however, used elements of popular music—folk themes—in
works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a
different one: he took a popular genre—bourgeois
melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of
nineteenth-century opera)—and, without altering its
fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. (133 words)
6. The author refers to Schubert and Brahms in order
    to suggest
   (A) that their achievements are no less substantial   
        than those of Verdi
   (B) that their works are examples of great trash
   (C) the extent to which Schubert and Brahms   
        influenced the later compositions of Verdi   
   (D) a contrast between the conventions of   
    nineteenth-century opera and those of   
    other musical forms
   (E) that popular music could be employed in   
    compositions intended as high art   
4、有关condescend和condescending
condescend有两个释义：屈尊和高人一等的姿势，这两个矛盾哪，前者是谦虚后者是傲慢？
condescending释义摆出高人一等姿态的，跟傲慢是同义么？

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con|de|scend /k'ɒndɪs'end/ (condescends condescending condescended)
1 [VERB] V to-inf
If someone condescends to do something, they agree to do it, but in a way which shows that they think they are better than other people and should not have to do it.
When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself three or four times in the space of half an hour.
2 [VERB] V to n, also V
If you say that someone condescends to other people, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they behave in a way which shows that they think they are superior to other people.
Don't condescend to me.

上面是比较简单的柯林斯词典解释~
屈尊和高人一等的姿态并不矛盾，也就是某人低调的动作和其高傲的心态所起的冲突。
其他问题，你可以先搜一下前人的解释。

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这么看condescend不是真正的谦虚，意义更接近于 傲慢心态的？是这样理解么