问题 单项选择题

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.

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.9()

A.dedicated

B.concerned

C.engaged

D.preoccupied

答案

参考答案:C

解析:

[解题思路] 动词搭配。dedicated和to搭配,意为“致力于,献给……”;concerned和 about搭配,意为“为……担心,与……有关”;engaged和in搭配,意为“忙于……”;preoccupied与with搭配,意为“因为……而心事重重”。此处选择engaged,该句意为:他们将主要忙于制造名人。

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厍(shè)狄士文,代人也。祖干,齐左丞相。父敬,武卫 * * 、肆州刺史。士文性孤直,虽邻里至亲莫与通狎。少读书。在齐袭封章武郡王,官至领军 * * 。周武帝平齐,山东衣冠多迎周师,唯士文闭门自守。帝奇之,授开府仪同三司、随州刺史。

高祖受禅,加上开府,封湖陂(pí)县子,寻拜贝州刺史。性清苦,不受公料,家无余财。其子尝啖官厨饼,士文枷之于狱累日,杖之一百,步送还京。僮隶无敢出门,所买盐菜,必于外境。凡有出入,皆封署其门,亲旧绝迹,庆吊不通。法令严肃,吏人股战,道不拾遗。有细过,必深文陷害。尝入朝,遇上置酒高会,赐公卿入左藏,任取多少。人皆极重,士文独口衔绢一匹,两手各持一匹。上问其故,士文曰:"臣口手俱满,余无所须。"上异之,别加赏物,劳而遣之。士文至州,发擿,长吏尺布升粟之赃,无所宽贷。得千余人而奏之,上悉配防岭南,亲戚相送,哭泣之声遍于州境。至岭南,遇瘴疠死者十八九,于是父母妻子唯哭士文。士文闻之,令人捕捉,挝①捶盈前,而哭者弥甚。有京兆韦焜为贝州司马,河东赵达为清河令,二人并苛刻,唯长史有惠政。时人为之语曰:"刺史罗刹政,司马蝮蛇瞋,长史含笑判,清河生吃人。"上闻而叹曰:"士文之暴,过于猛兽。"竟坐免。

  未几,以为雍州长史,士文谓人曰:"我向法深,不能窥候要贵,必死此官矣。"及下车,执法严正,不避贵戚,宾客莫敢至门,人多怨望。

士文从父妹为齐氏嫔,有色,齐灭之后,赐薛国公长孙览为妾。览妻郑氏性妒,谮之于文献后,后令览离绝。士文耻之,不与相见。后应州刺史唐君明居母忧,娉以为妻,由是士文、君明并为御史所劾。士文性刚,在狱数日,愤恚而死。家无余财,有子三人,朝夕不继,亲友无内之者。        (选自《隋书·厍狄士文传》)   

【注】①挝(zhuā):击,打。

小题1:对下列句中加线词的解释,不正确的一项是 ( )

A.亲旧绝迹,庆不通 吊:吊丧

B.令人捕捉,挝捶前 盈:充满、塞满

C.及下车,执法严正 下车:初到任

D.亲友无之者 内:入内小题2:下列各句分成四组,全部表现厍狄士文严厉刻薄的一组是 ( )

①虽邻里至亲莫与通狎                     ②山东衣冠多迎周师,唯士文闭门自守

③士文枷之于狱累日,杖之一百,步送还京  ④僮隶无敢出门,所买盐菜,必于外境

⑤长史含笑判,清河生吃人                 ⑥执法严正,不避贵戚,宾客莫敢至门

A.①②⑤

B.③④⑥

C.②④⑤

D.①③⑥小题3:根据原文信息,下列判断不正确的一项是( )

A.厍狄士文家是北齐的高官世家,北齐被北周灭掉后,他闭门不出,坚持操守,反而受到周武帝的赏识任用。

B.厍狄士文为了严格执法,甚至到了为执法如山而同所有的亲友断绝关系的程度。他手下的官吏更是战战兢兢,但社会治安却非常好。

C.厍狄士文极其清正廉洁,但用法过度,因他揭发而被发配到岭南遇瘴气死掉的人有八九百,又抓捕鞭打这些人的亲戚,以至于给人以"酷吏"的感觉。

D.厍狄士文执法严明,不巴结权贵,他对人发誓说一定要依法让这些官吏死在自己手里。后来因为堂妹的事情受到牵连,在狱中愤懑而死。小题4:翻译文中划线句。(10分)

①士文至州,发擿,长吏尺布升粟之赃,无所宽贷。

②览妻郑氏性妒,谮之于文献后,后令览离绝。士文耻之,不与相见。