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 pleasure 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, but by nature she was a moralist, 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, 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 a19thcentury Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a 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.
小題1: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
小題2: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
小題3: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
小題4:As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit, she __________.
A．misunderstood the idea of seriousness
B．re-examined old positions
C．a(chǎn)rgued for an openness to pop culture
D．preferred morals to beauty
小題5:Why Susan Sontag won her lasting fame was because of___________-.
A．her point which was suitable for common cultural view
B．her lifelong watchword：seriousness
C．her publishing books on morals
D．her enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:B
小題5:A

試題分析：
小題1:D 推理題。根據(jù)本句：Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.翻譯該句即可知“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。
小題2:D：細節(jié)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D正確。
小題3:A 細節(jié)題。根據(jù),根據(jù)By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感覺論者）, but by nature she was a moralist （倫理學者）可知A正確。
小題4:B細節(jié)題。根據(jù)re-examining old positions was her lifelong lifelong habit.可知B正確。
小題5:A 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)根據(jù)But it was as a tirelessm all-purposer cultural view that she made her lasting fame可知A正確。
點評：文章介紹了美國著名作家Susan Sontag 的情況。本文難度較大，因為文章中對她的個人思想介紹較多，雖然考查的以細節(jié)題為主，但在閱讀的時候要注意仔細的篩選辨析文章所給出的信息。如63，64題。
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A．successB．workC．joyD．variety
小題20:
A．luckB．reportingC．writingD．fun

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