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阅读材料,回答题。<br>Satiric Literature<br>Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective.Satire rarely offers original ideas.Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form.Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies.What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected.Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.None of these ideas is original.Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldoua Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swirl.It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular.It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive.They are stimulating and refreshing because with common sense briskness they brush away illusions and second-hand opinions.With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.<br>Satire exists because there is need for it.It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus,an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into all awareness of truth, though rarely to any active on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media issanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true.Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold die ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity.Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.<br>What does the passage mainly discuss? 查看材料

A. Difficulties of writing satiric literature
B. Popular topics of satire
C. New philosophies emerging from satiric literature
D. Reasons for the popularity of satire

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根据材料,回答题。<br>New Changes in American Life<br>Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families, while women cooked themeals and took care of the home and the children. __________. (46) But by the middle of this century, men"s and women"s roles were becoming less firmly fixed.<br>In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. __________. (47)The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes. __________. (48) Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.<br>In terms of numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. __________. (49)Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns. Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on "overtime" work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods. In the 1970s, the feminist movement, or women".s liberation, produced additional economic and social changes. Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers. __________. (50) But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work, banking, dentistry, and consttruction work. Women were asking for equal work, and equal opportunities for promotion.<br>Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women. Naturally, there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.<br>回答(46)题。 查看材料

A. In addition, many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.
B. Most of them still took traditional women"s jobs as public school teaching, nursing, and secretarial work.
C. These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles.
D. But its influence spread to many parts of American society.
E. The people involved in this movement did not Value the middle-class American goals.
F. A great many jobs that used to belong to men are now taken by women.

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