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 pleasures 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(感覺論者), but by nature she was a moralist (倫理學(xué)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 lifelong habit.
  In America,her story of a 19thcentury 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.
71.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
72.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
73.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
74.As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit , she __________.
A. misunderstood the idea of seriousness                   B. re-examined old positions
C. argued for an openess to pop culture                     D. preferred morals to beauty
75.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________-.
A. a tireless, all-purpose cultural view        B. her lifelong watchword :seriousness
C. publishing books on morals             D. enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing
72.這是一道推斷題。第二段講到,Notes on Camp使他首次成名,而中沒有這本文章的名字。再看這句話,講到在Notes on Camp這篇文章的里,她解釋了“a little-known set of difficult understandings”。
73.這是一道推斷題。第三段第一句By convention she was a sensualist, but by nature she was a moralist ,可知她既是感覺論者,又是倫理學(xué)者,因此選A。
74.這是一道推斷題。本題問的是Sontag的終生習(xí)慣,從第三段最后一句 re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit可以判斷,她的終生習(xí)慣是“re-examine old positions”。
75.這是一道推斷題。本題問的是Sontag持久的名聲,從最后一段第二句 But it was a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.可知選A。

71.這是一道推斷題。從句子本意是“Sontag走在世界文學(xué)最晚的邊界”,從時間上來講,“最晚的發(fā)生的”意思是“最新的發(fā)生的”;而且的一段前面也講到Sontag努力跟上文學(xué)、電影和藝術(shù)的新發(fā)展。因此,本句含義是“Sontag跟上世界文學(xué)最新發(fā)展的步伐”。
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