Passage Two
Compared with literature, communication stresses ______.
A.the use of good-patterned sentence structures
B.meaning effect rather than the pattern of a sentence
C.the flow of sound which contributes to the meaning
D.the playing of words instead of that of tones
参考答案:B
解析:[听力原文] 26-30 Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sound in time; or, in other words, of sounds and pauses. Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantive alone; but that is not what we call literature; and the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself; so that each sentence, by successive phrases, shall first come into a kind of knot, and then, after a moment of suspended meaning, solve and clear itself. In every properly constructed sentence there should be observed this knot or hitch; so that we are led to foresee, to expect, and to welcome the successive phrase. The pleasure may be heightened by an element of surprise, as, very grossly, in the common figure of the antithesis, or with much greater subtlety, where an antithesis is first suggested and then deftly evaded. Each phrase, besides, is to be comely in itself; and between the implication and the evolution of the sentence there should be a satisfying equipoise of sound; for nothing more often disappoints the ear than a sentence solemnly and sonorously prepared, and hastily and weakly finished. Nor should the balance be too striking and exact, for the one rule is to be infinitely various; to interest, to disappoint, to surprise, and yet still to gratify; to be ever changing, as it were, the stitch, and yet still to give the effect of an ingenious neatness.
[分析]: 推理判断题。 关于文学和交际的关系,根据原文Communication may be made in broken words... but that is not what we call literature;and the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning可知即使话不成句也能达到交际目的,但文学却不是这样,艺术家的事业就是将其意思进行编织和梳理。由此可推测,交际并不重视语句的组织,只注重语言的效果,即是否能达到交际的目的;而文学则重视语句的组织和结构。由此可见B项说法与原文相符,为正确答案。[解题关键] 通过表示转折的信号词but可判断其前后内容应为对比关系,因此可推断正确的语义。本句中communication和literature的关系对比通过but来表示,理解其中任何一部分的含义都有助于对另一部分内容的理解。