15．Since World WarⅡthe French have been surprised and annoyed by the power of American culture and its effect on France and the world．Their only consolation （安慰） has been the belief that French culture is superior to anything that Walt Disney or Hollywood can offer．
What France's cultural elites （精英） have rarely done，however，is examine how both serious and pop culture actually work in the United States．Rather，in the view of Frédéric Martel，a Frenchman and author of a recently released book on the topic，they have preferred to hide behind"a certain ideological anti-Americanism"．Now he has set out to change this．In Culture in America，a 622-page book with lots of information，he challenges the conventional view that French culture financed and organized by the government is entirely good and that American culture shaped by market forces is necessarily bad．
"My first idea was to compare France and the United States，but when I arrived in America，I realized things were much more complicated．The United States is a continent，and you can't compare a continent with a small country or a decentralized country with one that is highly centralized"Martel recalled．
As a result，this book deals only with creativity and arts financing in the United States．But perhaps surprisingly，given the mixture of fear and disdain （鄙視） that American culture stirs among many French intellectuals，his approach is not polemical （爭論的）．He neither defends nor attacks the United States； he simply describes the American way of culture．
"This idea is to see how a‘counter-model'works，"he explained．"If the aim is to fight American culture‘imperialism'，we need to know it from the inside．If we want to modernize our own system，which needs new resources，it is useful to see how things can function without huge public investment．"
The news media's response to Culture in America suggests there is room for debate．One weekly，L'Express，said the book offered food for thought．Another，Le Nouvel Observateur，compared it favorably to a recent overview on Democracy in America by Tocqueville，noting that Mr．Martel provides facts rather than impressions．Reviewing the book in Le Monde，critics also said its strength lay in its emphasis on investigation over opinion．And another article in Le Monde took the American cultural statistics collected by Mr．Martel and compared them with similar figures for France．Its unexpected conclusion was that the cultural infrastructures in the two countries were roughly similar．

67．When it comes to their own culture，the French feelB．
A．a(chǎn)ngry        
B．proud        
C．disappointed       
D．surprised
68．Mr．Martel gave up his idea of comparing France and the United States mainly because
C．
A．French culture is superior to American culture
B．French people hold an anti-Americanism attitude
C．American culture is much more complicated
D．American cultural activities don't have public investment
69．According to the passage，the book Culture in AmericaB．
A．a(chǎn)ttacks the US but defends France
B．investigates into the American culture
C．emphasized the freedom of American society
D．promotes the popularity of French culture
70．What type of writing is the article likely to be？D
A．A science fiction         
B．An advertisement
C．An official document 
D．A book review．

分析 本文屬于說明文閱讀，作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了為研究美國和法國文化的差異，F(xiàn)rédéric Martel調(diào)查了美國文化并發(fā)表了作品《美國文化》，這本書也 引起了眾多人的深思．

解答 67．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第一段"Their only consolation （安慰） has been the belief that French culture is superior to anything that Walt Disney or Hollywood can offer"可知法國人對自己的文化感覺十分自豪；故選B．
68．C．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第三段"The United States is a continent，and you can't compare a continent with a small country or a decentralized country with one that is highly centralized"可知他放棄比較法國和美國的差異是因為美國文化比他想象的更加復(fù)雜；故選C．
69．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第四段"He neither defends nor attacks the United States； he simply describes the American way of culture"可知這本書調(diào)查了美國文化；故選B．
70．D．推理判斷題．通讀全文，可知本文主要講了為研究美國和法國文化的差異，F(xiàn)rédéric Martel調(diào)查了美國文化并發(fā)表了作品《美國文化》，這本書引起了眾多人的深思，可推測本文飲食這本書的書評；故選D．

點評 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力，做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句，和題干進行比較，再做出正確的選擇．在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實，要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷．

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