19．Susan Sontag（1933-2004）was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature．For more than 40years 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 pleasure of pop culture．In"Notes Camp"，the 1964essay 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（感覺論者），but by nature she was a moralist（倫理學者），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（被壓抑的性格），a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease．In fact，re-examining old positions was her 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．
64．The underlined sentence in paragraph l means SontagD．
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
65．She first won her name throughD．
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
66．Susan Sontag's lasting fame was made uponA．
A．a(chǎn) tireless，all-purpose cultural view
B．her lifelong watchword：seriousness
C．publishing books on morals
D．enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing
67．From the works Susan published in the 1970s and 1980s，we can learn thatA．
A．she was more a moralist than a sensualist
B．she was more a sensualist than a moralist
C．she believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness
D．she would like to re-examine old positions．
分析 短文主要介紹了美國著名作家Susan Sontag的情況，從她的成名到她的作品等內容．
解答 64．D，推理判斷題，根據(jù)本句：Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture．即可知"走在世界文化的邊緣"就是"與世界文化的新發(fā)展同步，故D正確．
65．D，細節(jié)理解題，根據(jù)the 1964 essay that first made her name，she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings可知，她解釋了一組很難理解的東西讓她成名，故答案為D．
66．A，細節(jié)理解題，根據(jù)句子But it was as a tireless，all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame．可知，是她的孜孜不倦的文化觀是她一直那么有名氣，故答案為A．
67．A，細節(jié)理解題，根據(jù)句子By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感覺論者），but by nature she was a moralist（倫理學者），and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s，it was the latter side of her that came forward可知，二十世紀七十年代到八十年代間，從她創(chuàng)作的作品中看，與其說她是感覺論者，倒不如說她是倫理學者，故答案為A．
點評 解答任務型閱讀理解題，首先對原文材料迅速瀏覽，掌握全文的主旨大意．因為閱讀理解題一般沒有標題，所以，速讀全文，抓住中心主旨很有必要，在速讀的過程中，應盡可能多地捕獲信息材料．其次，細讀題材，各個擊破．掌握全文的大意之后，細細閱讀每篇材料后的問題，弄清每題要求后，帶著問題，再回到原文中去尋找、捕獲有關信息．最后，要善于抓住每段的主題句，閱讀時，要有較強的針對性．對于捕獲到的信息，要做認真分析，仔細推敲，理解透徹，只有這樣，針對題目要求，才能做到穩(wěn)、準．
