1(A)
本题为“primary purpose of the passage”,则进行全文思路解析
开篇对“law-and-literature movement”进行概念介绍,然后以“Richard A. Posner, paradoxically ends up expressing qualified support for the movement in a recent study in which he systematically refutes the writings of its leading legal scholars and cooperating literary critics.”表明态度,接着从两面论述“Critiquing the movement’s assumption that lawyers can offer special insights into literature that deals with legal matters”和“Similarly, the notion that literary criticism can be helpful in interpreting law is problematic”,最后比较友好地说“law-and-literature is a field with “promise”.”
贯穿全文的人为Richard A. Posner,作者通过Richard A. Posner表明自己的态度
即
“assess the law-and-literature movement by examining the position of one of its most prominent critics”
2(E)
从第1题分析可知,Posner是在反对,但比较友好地留了一点余地,即
“a salesperson who describes the faults in a fashionable product while conceding that it may have some value”
3(A)
根据“legal practitioners as using an approach to interpreting law”
“legal interpretation aims at discovering a single meaning.”,即
“eschews discovery of multiple meanings”
4(C)
根据“Posner might find legal training useful in the interpretation of a literary text”定位原文
“Legal questions per se, about which a lawyer might instruct readers, are seldom at issue in literature.”如果涉及legal questions,则legal training有帮助,选项(C)表达此义
“one of the key issues involves the answer to a legal question”
5(B)
根据“success”定位原文
“Whatever the truth of this last claim, there can be no doubt that the movement is a success: law-and-literature is an accepted subject in law journals and in leading law schools.”选项(B)为同义转述
“widespread acceptance by law schools and law journals”
6(A)
根据“legal analysis is not generally useful in interpreting literature”定位原文
“writers of literature use the law loosely to convey a particular idea or as a metaphor for the workings of the society envisioned in their fiction.”
即“use of the law in literature is generally of a quite different nature than use of the law in legal practice”
7(A)
题目关键词“the primary difficulty in using literary criticism to interpret law”,可从
“literary criticism in general aims at exploring richness and variety of meaning in texts, whereas legal interpretation aims at discovering a single meaning”以及““writers of literature use the law loosely to convey a particular idea or as a metaphor for the workings of the society envisioned in their fiction.”两者的重点与方向根本不同
“the goals of the two disciplines are incompatible”