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With the spread of inter-active electronic media a man alone in his own home will never have been so well placed to fill the ine
With the spread of inter-active electronic media a man alone in his own home will never have been so well placed to fill the ine
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2010-11-27
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With the spread of inter-active electronic media a man alone in his own home will never have been so well placed to fill the inexplicable mental space between cradle and crematorium. So I suspect that books will be pushed more and more into those moments of travel or difficult defecation (1)_____ people still don’t quite know what to do with.
When people do read, I think they’ll want to feel they are reading literature, or (2)_____ something serious. (3)_____ you’re going to find fewer books presenting themselves as no-nonsense and (4)_____ assuming literary pretensions and being packaged as works of art. We can expect an extraordinary variety of genre, but with an underlying (5)_____ of sentiment and vision.
Translators can only (6)_____ from this desire for the presumably sophisticated. We can look forward to lots of difficult names and fantastic stories of foreign parts enthusiastically (7)_____ by the overall worship of the "global village". Much of this will be awful and some wonderful, (8)_____ don’t expect the press or the organizers of prizes to offer you much help in making the appropriate distinctions. They will be chiefly (9)_____ in creating celebrity, the greatest enemy of discrimination, but a good prop for the (10)_____ consumer.
Every ethnic grouping over the world will have to be seen to have a great writer—a phenomenon that will (11)_____ a new kind of provincialism, more chronological than geographic, (12)_____ only the strictly contemporary is talked about and (13)_____ Universities, including Cambridge, will include (14)_____ their literature syllabus novels, written only last year. (15)_____ occasional exhumation for the Nobel, the achievements of ten or only five years ago will be largely forgotten.
In short, you can’t go too far wrong when predicting more of the same. But there is a (16)_____ side to this—the inevitable reaction against it. The practical things I would like to see happen—publishers seeking less to (17)_____ celebrity through extravagant advertising, (18)_____ and magazines (19)_____ space to reflective pieces—are rather more improbable than the Second Coming(耶稣复临). But dullness never quite darkens the whole planet. In their own idiosyncratic fashion a few writers will (20)_____ be looking for new departures.
选项
A、Given
B、Considering
C、Barring
D、Concerning
答案
C
解析
语篇连贯。该句由barring引导,表达假设关系,意为:倘若不是为了评诺贝尔奖而偶尔发掘被埋没的作品,十年或仅仅五年前的成果大都会被忘却。
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考研英语一
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