嘿，阿研来了。
上一期我们挖了2006年的政治客观题，今天继续——2006年考研英语客观题。
2006年的英语试卷延续了之前的格局：完形填空（20题×0.5分，共10分）+ 阅读理解A节（4篇×5题×2分，共40分） ，客观题部分共50分。完形填空主题为美国无家可归者问题，四篇阅读分别涉及美国社会的同化力量、莎士比亚故乡的派系之争、海洋过度捕捞、艺术与痛苦的关系。
今天阿研带你一次性挖完2006年英语试卷的完形填空和阅读理解A节（4篇文章） 。每道题附上答案、解析、以及一句“人话版”总结。
一、完形填空（20题×0.5分，共10分）
2006年的完形填空主题是美国无家可归者问题。
📖 原文
The homeless make up a growing percentage of America‘s population. 1 homelessness has reached such proportions that local governments can’t possibly 2. To help homeless people 3 independence, the federal government must support job training programs, 4 the minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing.
5 everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless. Estimates 6 anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million. 7 the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless is 8. One of the federal government‘s studies 9 that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.
Finding ways to 10 this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult. 11 when homeless individuals manage to find a 12 that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day 13 the street. Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others, 14 not addicted or mentally ill, simply lack the everyday 15 skills needed to turn their lives 16. Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are 17 programs that address the many needs of the homeless. 18 Edward Zlotkowski, director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts, 19 it, “There has to be 20 of programs. What’s needed is a package deal.”
📝 逐题解析
第1题：______ homelessness has reached such proportions...
A．Indeed B．Likewise C．Therefore D．Furthermore
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：前一句说“无家可归者比例在增长”，空格后说“无家可归问题已达到如此规模”——后者是对前者的强调和确认。Indeed（确实）用于加强语气，最符合逻辑。
💡 人话版：无家可归的人越来越多——确实，问题已经很严重了。
第2题：local governments can‘t possibly ______.
A．stand B．cope C．approve D．retain
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：cope（应对、处理）与with连用，但这里cope单独使用也可表示“应对”。句意：地方政府无法应对。stand（忍受）、approve（批准）、retain（保留）都不符合语境。
💡 人话版：问题太大，地方政府应付不了了。
第3题：To help homeless people ______ independence
A．in B．for C．with D．toward
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：toward表示“朝向、走向”，help...toward independence = 帮助无家可归者走向独立。
💡 人话版：帮他们走向独立——不是“为了独立”，是“朝独立的方向走”。
第4题：the federal government must support job training programs, ______ the minimum wage...
A．raise B．add C．take D．keep
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：raise the minimum wage = 提高最低工资标准。add（增加）、take（拿）、keep（保持）都不如raise准确。
💡 人话版：联邦政府得涨最低工资。
第5题：______ everyone agrees on the number...
A．generally B．almost C．hardly D．not
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：下文说“估计从60万到300万不等”——说明不是所有人都同意无家可归者的数量。not everyone = 并非每个人都同意（部分否定）。
💡 人话版：不是所有人都同意到底有多少无家可归者。
第6题：Estimates ______ anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million.
A．cover B．change C．range D．differ
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：range from...to... = 范围从……到……。句意：估计数字从60万到300万不等。
💡 人话版：估计人数从60万到300万**都有。
第7题：______ the figure may vary...
A．Now that B．Although C．Provided D．Except that
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：Although引导让步状语从句——尽管数字可能有变化，分析人士在另一件事上意见一致。
💡 人话版：尽管具体数字说不准，但有一件事大家看法一致。
第8题：the number of the homeless is ______.
A．inflating B．expanding C．increasing D．extending
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：increasing（增加）用于描述数量增长最自然。inflating（膨胀）、expanding（扩张）、extending（延伸）都不如increasing准确。
💡 人话版：无家可归者的数量在增加。
第9题：One of the federal government’s studies ______ that...
A．predicts B．displays C．proves D．discovers
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：predicts（预测）——研究预测到本十年末无家可归者将接近1900万。
💡 人话版：联邦政府的研究预测，人数还会涨。
第10题：Finding ways to ______ this growing homeless population...
A．assist B．track C．sustain D．dismiss
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：assist（帮助）——找到帮助这个不断增长的无家可归群体的方法。
💡 人话版：想办法帮帮这些越来越多的人。
第11题：______ when homeless individuals manage to find a shelter...
A．Hence B．But C．Even D．Only
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：Even when = 即使当……的时候。句意：即使无家可归者找到了住处，很多人白天的大部分时间仍在街头。
💡 人话版：即便有了住处，他们白天还是在街上晃。
第12题：find a ______ that will give them three meals a day...
A．lodging B．shelter C．dwelling D．house
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：shelter（收容所）——为无家可归者提供食宿的收容所。lodging（寄宿处）、dwelling（住所）、house（房子）都不如shelter准确。
💡 人话版：找个收容所——能管三顿饭、能睡觉的地方。
第13题：spend the bulk of each day ______ the street.
A．searching B．strolling C．crowding D．wandering
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：wandering the street = 在街头游荡。searching（搜寻）、strolling（漫步）、crowding（拥挤）都不如wandering准确。
💡 人话版：白天大部分时间在街上游荡。
第14题：Many others, ______ not addicted or mentally ill...
A．when B．once C．while D．whereas
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：while = 虽然，引导让步状语从句。句意：许多人虽然没有毒瘾或精神疾病……
💡 人话版：还有些人，虽然没上瘾也没精神病……
第15题：simply lack the everyday ______ skills needed to turn their lives around.
A．life B．existence C．survival D．maintenance
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：survival skills = 生存技能。句意：缺乏改变生活所需的日常生存技能。
💡 人话版：他们缺少的是生存技能——不知道怎么把日子过好。
第16题：turn their lives ______.
A．around B．over C．on D．up
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：turn around = 扭转、好转。turn their lives around = 扭转他们的人生。
💡 人话版：把人生扭转过来。
第17题：only when there are ______ programs...
A．complex B．comprehensive C．complementary D．compensating
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：comprehensive programs = 综合性项目。下文说“What‘s needed is a package deal”（需要的是一揽子方案），与之呼应。
💡 人话版：需要的是综合性的项目——不是零敲碎打。
第18题：______ Edward Zlotkowski... ______ it...
A．So B．Since C．As D．Thus
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：As...puts it = 正如……所说。固定搭配。
💡 人话版：正如他所说……
第19题：As Edward Zlotkowski... ______ it...
A．puts B．interprets C．assumes D．makes
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：put it = 表达、说。as someone puts it = 正如某人所说。
💡 人话版：正如他所说。
第20题：There has to be ______ of programs.
A．supervision B．manipulation C．regulation D．coordination
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：coordination of programs = 项目的协调。句意：需要的是多个项目之间的协调配合。
💡 人话版：各种项目得协调起来——不能各干各的。
二、阅读理解（4篇 × 5题 × 2分，共40分）
Text 1：美国社会的同化力量
📖 文章大意：尽管人们无休止地谈论差异，美国社会实际上是一台同化人们的惊人机器。文章通过数据说明当代移民的同化程度——语言、房产拥有率、跨族通婚等指标表明，移民正迅速融入美国文化。
📖 原文
In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. This is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference” characteristic of popular culture. People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.” Instead of intimate shops catering to “a knowledgeable elite,” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background.” This turned shopping into a public and democratic act. The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.
Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today‘s immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000.
Now, consider three indices of assimilation — language, home ownership and intermarriage. The 1990 Census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English ’well‘ or ’very well‘ after ten years of residence.” The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. “By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.” Hence the description of America as a “graveyard” for language. By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrived before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans.
Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites and blacks.” By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians. Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation’s assimilative power.”
Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of everything. But particularly when viewed against America‘s turbulent past, today’s social indices hardly suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.
第21题：The word “homogenizing” (Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably means ______.
A．identifying B．associating C．assimilating D．monopolizing
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：homogenizing = 使同质化、使一致。文章主题是美国社会同化移民，assimilating（同化）最接近。A“识别”、B“联系”、D“垄断”都不符合。
💡 人话版：同化 = 把不同的人变得一样。美国就像一台“同化机器”。
第22题：According to the author, the department stores of the 19th century ______.
A．played a role in the spread of popular culture
B．became intimate shops for common consumers
C．satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite
D．owed its emergence to the culture of consumption
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：原文说百货商店“turned shopping into a public and democratic act”，推动了大众文化的传播。B说“变成了亲密的商店”——与原文“Instead of intimate shops”矛盾；C“满足精英需求”——与原文相反；D“出现归功于消费文化”——因果颠倒，是百货商店催生了消费文化。
💡 人话版：百货商店让普通人也能购物——推动了大众文化的形成。
第23题：The text suggests that immigrants now in the U.S. ______.
A．are resistant to homogenization
B．exert a great influence on American culture
C．are hardly a threat to the common culture
D．constitute the majority of the population
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：原文说移民“quickly fitting into this common culture”“hardly poisonous”——移民对主流文化几乎不构成威胁。A“抵抗同化”与原文相反；B“对美国文化影响巨大”文中未提及；D“构成人口多数”与数据矛盾。
💡 人话版：移民融入得很快——不用担心他们“破坏”美国文化。
第24题：Why are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks mentioned in Paragraph 5?
A．To prove their popularity around the world.
B．To reveal the public‘s fear of immigrants.
C．To give examples of successful immigrants.
D．To show the powerful influence of American culture.
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：提到这两位美国巨星在世界偏远村庄都有粉丝，是为了说明美国文化的强大影响力——即使远在异国他乡的人也被美国文化同化。B“揭示公众对移民的恐惧”是文中提到的现象，但不是举例的目的。
💡 人话版：连偏远村庄的孩子都认识施瓦辛格——美国文化的同化力太强了。
第25题：In the author’s opinion, the absorption of immigrants into American society is ______.
A．rewarding B．successful C．fruitless D．harmful
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：作者用大量数据说明移民同化的成功——语言、房产、通婚等指标都显示移民在快速融入。B“successful”最准确。
💡 人话版：美国同化移民这件事——干得很成功。
Text 2：莎士比亚故乡的派系之争
📖 文章大意：斯特拉特福只有一个产业——威廉·莎士比亚——但存在两个日益敌对的分支：皇家莎士比亚剧团（RSC）和靠游客为生的当地居民。双方对剧团是否给小镇带来收入、是否该获得补贴存在严重分歧。
📖 原文
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry — William Shakespeare — but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway‘s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC‘s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making.
The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus — and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side — don‘t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.
The townsfolk don‘t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.
Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they‘ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.
It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) — lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the town‘s flowerbeds or benches in the theatre’s theatre. The townsfolk don‘t like it, but if they did not exist, the town would suffer from the lack of visitors. Because the playgoers bring in money but not much else, a decent, well-behaved, tax-paying, self-respecting citizenry should be encouraged. But a government that has the power to tax the RSC should be able to subsidize it directly.
第26题：From the first two paragraphs, we learn that ______.
A．the townsfolk earn little from tourism
B．the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately
C．the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers
D．the sightseers also go to see the plays
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：原文说看戏者“spend the night...pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants”，而观光客“take in everything and get out of town by nightfall”——看戏者花钱更多。
💡 人话版：看戏的人住店吃饭，观光的人当天就走——看戏的花钱多。
第27题：It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ______.
A．the sightseers can take in everything before nightfall
B．the playgoers are more important than the sightseers
C．the townsfolk dislike the RSC’s actors
D．the RSC’s actors are noisy and long-haired
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：原文明确说观光客“can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall”——天黑前就能看完所有景点离开。
💡 人话版：观光客当天来当天走——“一日游” 。
第28题：By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” (Line 2, Paragraph 4), the author implies that ______.
A．Stratford cannot afford the subsidy
B．Stratford is not really poor
C．Stratford has always been poor
D．Stratford is richer than other towns
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：下文说“每一家旅馆都在扩建，希尔顿在建新酒店”——说明斯特拉特福并不穷。“哭穷”是装出来的。
💡 人话版：斯特拉特福天天喊穷——但旅馆一家接一家扩建，希尔顿都来了，真穷吗？
第29题：According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because ______.
A．ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending
B．the company is financially ill-managed
C．the actors are not worth the money
D．the theatre has broken attendance records
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：居民认为RSC不该拿补贴，因为“the theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row”“94 percent occupied”——上座率这么高，怎么会缺钱？
💡 人话版：戏院场场爆满——你们赚那么多，还要补贴？
第30题：The author‘s attitude towards the townsfolk’s view is ______.
A．supportive B．critical C．neutral D．indifferent
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：作者用“deliciously ironic”（绝妙的讽刺）来描述居民的态度，并指出居民从莎士比亚身上赚钱却讨厌演员——整体态度是批判性的。
💡 人话版：作者觉得居民又当又立——靠莎士比亚赚钱，却讨厌演戏的人。
Text 3：海洋过度捕捞
📖 文章大意：史前人类到达新地区时，大型动物很快灭绝。如今海洋中可能正在发生类似的事情。研究表明，大型食肉鱼类在新渔场开放后15年内平均减少80%。科学家们呼吁用“原始基线”来衡量鱼类种群的健康程度。
📖 原文
When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals: they suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans.
That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.
Dr. Worm acknowledges that these figures are conservative. One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved. Today‘s vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes. In the early days, too, longlines would have been more saturated with fish. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past. Furthermore, in the early days of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked. That is no longer a problem, because there are fewer sharks around now.
Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account. They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the “shifting baseline.” The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels. Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to do business.
第31题：The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that ______.
A．large animals were vulnerable to the changing environment
B．small species survived as large animals disappeared
C．large sea animals may face the same threat today
D．slow-growing fish outlive fast-growing ones
✅ 答案：C
📖 解析：第一段末尾说“Now something similar could be happening in the oceans”——史前大型动物灭绝的例子是为了引出海洋大型动物可能面临同样威胁。
💡 人话版：史前大型动物被人类猎杀灭绝——现在海洋里的大型鱼也快被捞光了。
第32题：We can infer from Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm‘s paper that ______.
A．the stock of large predators in some old fisheries has reduced by 90%
B．there are only half as many fisheries as there were 15 years ago
C．the catch sizes in new fisheries are only 20% of the original amount
D．the number of larger predators dropped faster in new fisheries than in the old
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：原文说大型食肉鱼类在新渔场15年内减少80%，在旧渔场“it has halved again since then”——再减少一半，即80%+剩余20%的一半=90%。A正确。
💡 人话版：新渔场15年减少80%，旧渔场再减一半——总共少了90%。
第33题：By saying “these figures are conservative” (Line 1, Paragraph 3), Dr. Worm means that ______.
A．fishing technology has improved greatly
B．Dr. Myers and other researchers hold a conservative view
C．the figures are not based on any scientific evidence
D．the true extent of the decline is even greater
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：下文解释了为什么“保守”——过去的技术落后，实际捕捞量被低估，所以真实的下降幅度可能更大。
💡 人话版：数据“保守”意思是——实际情况比这还惨。
第34题：The author seems to be mainly concerned with most fisheries’ ______.
A．management efficiency
B．biomass level
C．catch-size limits
D．technological application
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：文章核心讨论的是鱼类生物量的变化——大型鱼类减少了多少，以及如何用“基线”来衡量。B“biomass level”最准确。
💡 人话版：作者关心的是——海里到底还剩多少鱼（生物量）。
第35题：According to the passage, the maximum sustainable yield can be achieved when ______.
A．the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original level
B．fishing technology is improved to catch more fish
C．the fishing industry is managed by marine biologists
D．sharks are removed from the fishing areas
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：原文明确说“the maximum sustainable yield...comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels”。A是原文的直接复现。
💡 人话版：想持续捕鱼？目标鱼种的数量得保持在原始水平的50%左右——别捞太狠。
Text 4：艺术与痛苦的关系
📖 文章大意：人们觉得艺术家很奇怪，因为他们只关注负面情感。但情况并非总是如此——最早的艺术形式表达的是快乐。从19世纪开始，艺术家开始将快乐视为无意义、虚假甚至无聊。今天，我们被快乐的承诺包围，反而需要艺术来提醒我们“记住你会死”。
📖 原文
Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this: artists‘ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth‘s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery. But it‘s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.
Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda — to lure us to open our wallets — they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. “Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
But what we forget — what our economy depends on us forgetting — is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It‘s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.
第36题：By citing the example of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that ______.
A．poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music
B．art grow out of both positive and negative feeling
C．poets today are less skeptical of happiness
D．artist have changed their focus of interest
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：从华兹华斯的水仙花到波德莱尔的恶之花——作者用两位诗人说明艺术家的关注点从快乐转向了痛苦。
💡 人话版：以前诗人写花写草写快乐，后来写恶写丑写痛苦——艺术家的口味变了。
第37题：The word “bummer” (Line 5, Paragraph 5) most probably means something ______.
A．religious B．unpleasant C．entertaining D．commercial
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：bummer = 令人不快的事物。前文说人们被苦难包围，所以“不需要艺术也来添堵”——bummer意为令人不快的。
💡 人话版：生活已经够苦了，艺术就别再添堵了。
第38题：In the author‘s opinion, advertising ______.
A．emerges in the wake of the anti-happy part
B．is a cause of disappointment for the general public
C．replace the church as a major source of information
D．creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself
✅ 答案：D
📖 解析：原文说广告“make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable”——广告制造快乐的幻象，而不是真正的快乐。
💡 人话版：广告里的快乐——假的。它是为了让你掏钱。
第39题：We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes ______.
A．happiness more often than not ends in sadness
B．the anti-happy art is distasteful but refreshing
C．misery should be enjoyed rather than denied
D．the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms
✅ 答案：B
📖 解析：最后一段说艺术传递的信息“more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air”——令人不快，但令人清醒。
💡 人话版：这种提醒你“人终有一死”的艺术——不好听，但有用。
第40题：Which of the following is TRUE of the text?
A．Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.
B．Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.
C．People feel disappointed at the realities of modern society.
D．Mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.
✅ 答案：A
📖 解析：原文说“the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger”——宗教曾经扮演提醒苦难的角色。A正确。
💡 人话版：以前是教堂提醒你“你会死”——现在这个角色被艺术接手了。
