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年公共英语考试备考冲刺练习题2023年公共英语考试备考冲刺练习题2023Passage EightWakefield Masters RealismMoreover,insofar as any interpretationof itsauthorcan bemade fromthe fiveor sixplays attributedto him,the Wakefield Masteris uniformlyconsidered tobe amanof sharpcontemporary observation.He was,formally,perhaps clericallyeducated,as hisLatin andmusic,hisBiblical andpatristic loreindicate.He is,still,celebrated mainlyfor hisquick sympathyfor theoppressedand forgottenman,his sharpeye forcharacter,a readyearfor colloquialvernacular turnsof speechand ahumoralternately rudeand boisterous,coarse andhappy.Hencedespite hisconscious artistryas manifestin hisfeelingfor intricatemetrical andstanza forms,he islooked uponasa kindof medievalSteinbeck,indignantly angryat,unpromisingly andevenbrutally realisticin presentingthe plightof theagriculturalpoor.Thus takingthe playand the author together,it ismowfairly conventionalto regardthe formerasakind ofultimatepoint in the secularization of themedieval drama.Hence muchemphasis onit asdepicting realisticallyhumb1emanners andpastoral lifein thebleak hillsof theWestRiding ofYorkshire ona typicallycold bightof December24th.After whatare oftenregarded asalmost“documentaries”given in the threesuccessive monologuesofthe threeshepherds,critics goon toaffirm thatthe realismisthen intensifiedinto aburlesque mock-treatment of theNativity.Finally asa sortof epilogueor afterthoughtindeference to the Biblicalorigins of the materials,the playslidesback intoan atavisticmood ofearly innocentreverence.Actually,as weshall see,the finalscene isnotonly theculminating scenebut perhapsthe raisond etreofintroductory“realism.”There ismuch onthe surfaceof thepresent playtosupport theconventional viewof itsmood ofsecularrealism.All thesame,the“realism“oftheWakefield Masterisof aparadoxical turn.His wideknowledge ofpeople,aswell asbooks indicatesno cloisteredcontemplative butonein closerelation tohis times.Still,that lifewas afteralla predominantlyreligious one,a timewhich neverneglectedthe beliefthat manwas arebellious andsinfulcreature inneed ofredemption,So deeplyone canhardlysay“naively“of sosophisticated awriter andimplicitlyreligious isthe Masterthat heis lessable orless willingtopresent actualhistory realisticallythan isthe authorofthe BromeAbrahamand Isaac”.His historicalsense iseven lessrealisticthan thatof Chaucerwho justa fewyears beforehaddone forhis owntime costumeromances,such asTheKnight sTale,Troilus andCressida,etc.Moreover Chaucerhadthe excuse of highlyromantic materialsfor takinglibertieswith history.
1.Which ofthe followingstatements about theWakefield Masteris NOTTrue[A].He wasChaucer scontemporary.[B].He isremembered asthe authorof fiveor sixrealisticplays._C].He writelike JohnSteinbeck.[D].HE wasan acplishedartist.
2.By“patristic”,theauthormeans_A].realistic.[B].patriotic_C].superstitious.[D].pertaining tothe ChristianFathers.
3.The statementaboutthe^secularizationofthemedieval dramareferstothe[A].introduction ofmundane mattersin religiousplays.[B].presentation oferudite material.[C].useofcontemporary introductionof religiousthemesintheearly days.
4.In subsequentparagraphs,we mayexpect thewriterof thispassage to[A].justify hisparison withSteinbeck.[B].present apoint ofview whichattack thethoughtofthesecond paragraph._C].point outthe anachronismsintheplay.[D].discuss theworks ofChaucer.Vocabulary受过教育的
1.clerically educatedlore口头传说,口头文字
2.patristic有关早期基督教领袖的
3.vernacular方言
4.boisterous喧闹的
5.metrical韵律的
6.stanza诗节
7.medieval中世纪的
8.plight悲惨的命运
9.世俗化,脱离
10.secularization乡村的
11.pastoral荒凉的
12.bleak记录文献的
13.documentary独白
14.monologue。