新GRE阅读理解36套每日讨论--38（群178674184）

普渡哥

   Of Homer‘s two epic poems, the Odyssey has
   always been more popular than the Iliad, perhaps
   because it includes more features of mythology that are accessible
   to readers. Its subject (to use Maynard Mack‘s
5 categories) is "life-as-spectacle", for readers,
   diverted by its various incidents, observe its hero
   Odysseus primarily from without; the tragic Iliad, however,
   presents "life-as- experience": readers are asked to
   identify with the mind of Achilles, whose motivations render him a
10 not particularly likable hero. In addition, the Iliad,
   more than the Odyssey, suggests the complexity
   of the gods‘ involvement in human actions, and to
   the extent that modern readers find this complexity
   a needless complication, the Iliad is less satisfying than the
15 Odyssey, with its simpler ?scheme‘ of divine justice.
   Finally, since the Iliad presents a historically verifiable
   action, Troy‘s siege, the poem raises historical questions
   that are absent from the Odyssey’s blithely imaginative world.
(148 words)


10. The author uses Mack‘s ―categories‖ (lines 4-5)
most probably in order to
(A) argue that the Iliad should replace the Odyssey
as the more popular poem
(B) indicate Mack‘s importance as a commentator
on the Iliad and the Odyssey
(C) suggest one way in which the Iliad and the
Odyssey can be distinguished
(D) point out some of the difficulties faced by
readers of the Iliad and the Odyssey
(E) demonstrate that the Iliad and the Odyssey
can best be distinguished by comparing their
respective heroes


11. The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) distinguishing arguments
(B) applying classifications
(C) initiating a debate
(D) resolving a dispute
(E) developing a contrast


12. It can be inferred from the passage that a reader of
the Iliad is likely to have trouble identifying with the
poem‘s hero for which of the following reasons?
(A) The hero is eventually revealed to be unheroic.
(B) The hero can be observed by the reader
only from without.
(C) The hero‘s psychology is not historically
verifiable.
(D) The hero‘s emotions often do not seem
appealing to the reader.
(E) The hero‘s emotions are not sufficiently
various to engage the reader‘s attention.

kristenbag

EEC

大剑Jade

CED,1min50秒。。。

donadong

CED

donadong

大剑童鞋你也忒快了。。

520sslxf

EED

ZMFuibe

CED

大剑Jade

。。这个以前做过。。

普渡哥

大剑的是正确答案，CED。

谢谢回帖的人，大家加油！

jokequeen

电脑根本看不进去阅读，SHIT