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。

单项选择题
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求助者自述:大学时曾经结识一位女友,本来计划毕业后结婚,但是,对方父母反对,要求我必须考上研究生,因此才没有领结婚证。考上研究生后,学习比较紧张,而且分居两地,结婚的事再次耽搁。导师有一位非常漂亮的女儿和我同一年级,虽不同专业,但彼此经常见面,而且她也表达出喜欢我。导师经常请我到他家吃饭,并多次暗示我将来可以留校工作。我也比较喜欢导师的女儿,故意隐瞒了我有女友的事实,我们已经开始悄悄约会,而且,多次以学习紧张为由拒绝女友来看望我。但是,最近女友再次提出春节结婚,可是导师也婉言挽留我在寒假帮他整理资料。我想向女友坦白,可是又担心女友来学校闹事,想继续隐瞒,可是女友坚持要我回家结婚。想向导师坦白,又害怕失去他的照顾和他女儿的喜爱。最近一个多月,开始失眠,食欲下降,虽然能够坚持学习,但效率很低,经常出现心慌,出汗,噩梦,心情烦躁不安,偶尔觉得活着没意思,有时还会出现离奇的想法,比如,想象自己要是能分身就好了。还曾经错把别人看成未婚妻,以为她悄悄来学校了。有时很内疚,觉得对不住未婚妻,有时觉得自己道德败坏,欺骗了导师和导师的女儿。随着春节临近,越来越紧张不安,担心我会得精神病,因此来寻求帮助,希望心理咨询师能够告诉我该怎么办,到底选择哪个女孩比较好。

求助者心理问题的主要原因是()。

A.心理压力

B.女友压力

C.导师压力

D.道德压力

E.工作压力