Module 3 综合检测
时间100分钟 满分120分
第一部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下面的短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything—to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American cultural life,trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag_walked_at_the_latest_edges_of_world_culture.
Seriousness was one of Sontag's lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the welleducated and the pooreducated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In “Notes on Camp,”the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a littleknown set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.
By conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist (伦理学者),and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor—published in 1978,after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a