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NIL: QUANTITY ::()

A. quandary: restriction
B. vacuum: matter
C. cipher: confusion
D. quorum: presence
E. paradox: truth

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Since her own era, Christina Rossetti’s devout Christianity has often been seen as a characteristic setting her apart from the other avowedly non-Christian members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. In designating their movement a form of line "aesthetic mysticism", one established critic, Alice Law described the place(5) Pre-Raphaelitism holds in the development of Victorian artistic culture as a movement away from a predominantly religious and moralizing function toward a culture of aestheticism—precisely what Rossetti’s work has long been thought to reject. The Pre-Raphaelites’ attention to picturesque detail, the medievalist atmosphere and settings, the pervasive melancholy of their works, and their(10) awareness of their art’s primarily Christian literary and pictorial origins—all these have been traditionally downplayed in their similarity to the characteristics of Christina Rossetti’s poetry. This belief persists, despite the distinctly religious "atmosphere" of much of the work produced by both generations of Pre-Raphaelites: its employment of(15) biblical images and typology; of religious figural language; and, more especially and pervasively, of medievalist backgrounds and settings that were seen by their early audiences to have clearly devotional, if not dangerously "Romanist", associations. When discussing Pre-Raphaelitism as an historical movement, we must remember that the first brotherhood was inspired largely by a sacramental(20) aesthetic that tended to alienate Victorian society, which generally abhorred the notion of sacrifice. It is true that Rossetti’s traditional solution to the Romantic and Victorian literary problem of alienation from nature and the more characteristically Victorian problem of despair at life’s meaninglessness, was fundamentally Christian. But with few exceptions, Rossetti relied on the(25) colloquial and angst-ridden language of both generations of Pre-Raphaelites. Even Swinburne, the Pre-Raphaelite whose anti-orthodoxy and iconoclasm seem to conflict most profoundly with Rossetti’s values, enthusiastically hailed her. That most Victorians themselves perceived Christina Rossetti as unequivocally Pre-Raphaelite in her poetic affinities is clear, for throughout her(30) poetry and much of her prose Christina Rossetti demonstrated true and deep affinities with Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic values, in both innovative and traditional ways. We must not forget her "pictorial" modes of representation, the medieval atmosphere and settings that appear repeatedly in her poems, her appreciation of the world’s physical beauty and its expression in lush images, the intensity of(35) her poems, which seems inseparable from their "sincerity", and not least her preoccupation with love. To a greater extent than figures more peripheral to the Pre-Raphaelite circle, Christina Rossetti produced works that appear to be dominated by the same aesthetic consciousness and literary values that mak Pre-Raphaelitism the central movement which unintentionally spawned the(40) aestheticism of the 1880s and 1890s. Pre-Raphaelitism, in fact, influenced aesthetic thought in a way that made the movement central to the transition from the sentimental moral idealism of the Victorian mainstream to the variously nihilistic, skeptical, and ironic value systems that dominate modern poetry. The author of the passage offers all of the following as characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite art whose significance was ignored in order to isolate Rossetti's work as anomalous, EXCEPT()

A. their sober tone
B. their usage of the painterly idiom
C. their cognizance of a religious influence
D. their minimalist sensibility
E. their medievalist atmosphere

Darwin proposed the theory of sexual selection to explain the origin of ostentatious plumage in certain bird species, maintaining that the ornate features of males are a consequence of female mate selection based on an Line abstract aesthetic sense, not unlike the process of animal breeders producing fancy-male varieties of pigeons by conscious artificial selection. Wallace suggested an alternative explanation: through greater physical energy the most highly adorned males are able to win the competition with rival males. Meanwhile Huxley pointed out that male adornment is instrumental in establishing dominance relationships among males: adornment reduces the(10) physical activity necessary to intimidate rivals. However, Jacobs later examined the process of female choice, concluding that what appeared to be choice of an adorned male by a female was really a mutual attraction to a certain reproductive site. Mate selection requires an awareness of features characteristic of a suitable breeding site, which might be(15) mirrored in the ornamentation of the male, and thus mate selection is related directly to adaptive niche specialization. From this insight, Austin proceeded to develop a food-courtship theory of mate selection: the population most efficient in use of the energy available in a particular niche will be the fittest to survive there. Through natural selection, organisms will tend to become specialized to(20) form isolated populations, each adapted to utilize the energy most efficiently that is available in a particular niche and this process of segregation and specialization of populations is facilitated by employing in the mating process samples of the food available in the preferred niche. In particular cases, the male may display the food to the female or feed it to her in the courtship(25) ceremony, maybe bearing permanent representations of specific foods on his plumage, and the female may be attracted to the male for these representations of the territorial foods. Austin’s theory may be applied to the case for mate choice among peafowls, whose males’ "eyespotted" tail feathers bear a striking resemblance(30) to blue berries. According to the food-courtship theory, it is because their plumage bears representations of food that peacocks attract peahens, which may explain why males with the most "eyespots" on their tail have the greatest mating success. Not inconsistent with a possible role of the "eyespots" in reproductive competition among males and in aesthetic selection, this(35) explanation seems more plausible than the suggestion that by selecting mates according to the perfection of their tail-feather "eyespots", peahens are able to identify mates with the greatest "fitness". This process, bringing together males and females of similar tastes and physiologies, may lead to speciation. Some of the male display features may come to be involved in species(40) identification, and it has also been noted that male adornment could have a dual function, repelling rival males as well as attracting females. Which of the following illustrative devices is NOT used in the passage()

A contrast of different points of view
B. An analogy that seeks to illustrate
C. An example of a theory's applications
D. Expostulation of a theory's predictions
E. Repetition of key ideas and expressions

七、阅读下面文字,完成下面4个小题。 在“基本粒子”的大家族中,有一种叫中微子。它那穿山过海,敢于与光速较量的神奇本领和不费吹灰之力穿过地球的拿手好戏,极大地触发了科学家们应用研究的灵感。于是,中微子通信的设想脱颖而出了。这是一种采用中微子束来代替电磁波传递信息的无线通信方式。它可以冲破电磁波通信不可逾越的水下和地下这两大禁区,实现全球无线通信;它保密性好,传递信息快,不受外界干扰,对人体无害。这些优点是其他通信方式无法比拟的。 中微子通信过程和微波通信相似。有发射和接收装置。通信时,发射端首先用高能质子加速器,将质子加速到几千亿电子伏特的能量,然后去轰击一块金属靶子。此时,靶子的背面就会产生许多“短命”的介子,这些介子一边运动,一边发生衰变,从而变成中微子和μ子。再让它们共同穿过钢板,这时μ子被钢板阻挡并衰变了,剩下的就是纯净的中微子束。然后,再用信号对它进行调制,接着通过磁场控制载有信息的中微子束,使之按人的旨意朝一定方向传向目标。 接收端是一个贮有近亿吨水的大水箱,箱内的光探测器星罗棋布。当发射来的中微子束在水中传过时,就会与原子核中的中子发生核反应而生成μ子,μ子在水中高速前进,受到核的减速作用放出光子,这些光子进而被水中的光探测器接收,即可把原来中微子束所携带的信息解调出来,从而达到通信的目的。 在大水箱内,接替中微子束传输信息的依次是()

A. μ子一光子一中微子
B. 中子―μ子―光子
C. μ子―光子
D. 原子核―中子―μ子―光子

ACHROMATIC: HUE ::()

A. convoluted: tortuousness
B. tranquil: listener
C. extraneous: essentiality
D. derivative: model
E. disoriented: destination

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