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題型優(yōu)先級判定：

1. The?author?of the passage would be most likely to?agree?with which of the following statements about the?letters from Nettie to Celie? 態(tài)度，定位到可以先做

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2. In the?second paragraph, the author of the passage is primarily?concerned?with?段落主旨，等同于短文章主旨，可以先做

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3. According to the passage, an evaluative?paradigm?that confronts the startling?structural features?of?The Color Purple?would accomplish which of the following? 直接細節(jié)信息題，邊讀邊做，遇到就解

4. The?author?of the passage?suggests?that Gates is most like the?reviewers?mentioned in the?first paragraph?in which of the following ways? 間接細節(jié)信息題+態(tài)度，雖然有定位，但是難題，最后做

文章分析（板書來自武漢Sugar老師）：

長文章也可以講的很舒服。不然學生難受你也難受。

第一段：

①Despite winning several prestigious literary awards of the day, when it first appeared, Alice Walker’s?The Color Purple generated critical unease over puzzling aspects of its compositions.?[CJ1] ②?In what[CJ2]?, as one reviewer put it, was “clearly intended to be a realistic novel,” many reviewers perceived violations of the conventions of the realistic novel form, pointing out variously?that?late in the book, the narrator protagonist?[CJ3]?Celie and her friends are propelled toward a happy ending with more velocity than credibility,?that?the letters from Nettie to her sister Celie intrude into the middle of the main action with little motivation or warrant,?and that?the device of Celie’s letters to God is especially unrealistic in as much?[CJ4]?as it forgoes the concretizing[CJ5]?details that traditionally have given the epistolary novel (that is, a novel composedof letters) its peculiar verisimilitude: the ruses to enable mailing letters, the cache, and especially the letters received in return.

?[CJ1]現象解釋

?[CJ2]指代compositions/ critical unease

?[CJ3]/pr?'t?ɡ?n?st/?主人公

?[CJ4]由于，因為

?[CJ5]使具體化

ruse 計策

1 可做

1.The author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the letters from Nettie to Celie??讀完一段可做，本質是結構題

A. They mark an unintended shift to geographically and culturally removed surroundings 無關

B. They may represent a conscious attempt to undermine certain novelistic conventions

C. They are more closely connected to the main action of the novel than is at first apparent相反/沒有證據

D. They owe?more?to the tradition of the slave narrative than do Celie’s letters to God沒有證據/無關

E. They illustrate the traditional concretizing details of the epistolary novel form 無關

第二段

①Indeed, the violations of realistic convention are so flagrant that they might well call into question whether The Color of Purple?is indeed intended to be a realistic novel, especially since there are indications that at least some of those aspects of the novel regarded by viewers as puzzling may constitutes its links to modes of writing other than Anglo-European nineteenth-century realism.?②For example, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has recently located the letters to God within an African American tradition deriving from slave narrative, a tradition in which the act of writing is linked to a powerful deity who “speaks” through scripture and bestows literacy as an act of grace. ③For Gates, the concern with finding a voice, which he sees as the defining feature of African American literature, links Celie’s letters with certain narrative aspects of Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the acknowledged predecessor of The Color Purple.

的確，這種違背如此明顯，讓人很難認為這是一本現實主義小說，特別是里面至少有些方面跟那些非現實主義作品還挺有聯系的。

舉例的部分先不著急，有考再回來看。

?有了第二段主旨，2 可做

2. In the second paragraph, the author of the passage is primarily concerned with?

A. examining the ways in which?The Color Purple?echoes its acknowledged predecessor,?Their Eyes Were Watching God? 在例子里，以偏概全，無關

B. providing an example of a critic who has?adequately?addressed the?structural features?of?The Color Purple 可以做備選，也是個干擾項。但最終沒有證據/無關，例子不是重點。

C. suggesting that literary models?other than the nineteenth-century realistic novel may inform our understanding of?The Color Purple?順承段落關系

D. demonstrating the?ineffectiveness?of a particularly?scholarly attempt?to suggest an alternative way of evaluating?The Color Purple?沒有證據

E.?disputing?the perceived notion that?The Color Purple?departs from conventions of the realistic novel form 相反

第三段

①Gates’s paradigm suggests how misleading it may be to assume that mainstream realist criteria are appropriate for evaluating The Color Purple. ②But in his preoccupation with voice as a primary element unifying both the speaking subject and the text as a whole Gates does not elucidate many of the more conventional structural features of Walker’s novel. ③For instance, while the letters from Nettie clearly illustrate Nettie’s acquisition of her own voice, Gates’s focus on “voice” sheds little light on the place?that these letters occupy in the narrative or on why the plot takes this sudden jump into geographically and culturally removed surroundings. ④What is needed is an evaluative paradigm that, rather than obscuring such startling structural features (which may actually be explicitly intended to undermine traditional Anglo-European novelistic conventions), confronts them, thus illuminating the deliberately provocative ways in which The Color Purple?departs from the traditional models to which it has been compared.

elucidate 闡明，解釋

3可做?

3. According to the passage, an evaluative paradigm that confronts the startling structural features of?The Color Purple?would accomplish which of the following? 直接細節(jié)信息題

A. It would adequately explain why?many reviewers?of this novel have discerned its connections to the realistic novel tradition?沒有證據

B. It would show the ways in which this novel differs from its reputed Anglo-European nineteenth-century models?

C. It would explicate the?overarching role?of voice in this novel 沒有證據/相反

D. It would address the ways in which this novel echoes the central themes of Hurston’s?Their Eyes Are Watching God 無關

E. It would reveals ways in which these structural features serve to?parody?novelistic conventions 沒有證據/相反

overarching: comprehensive, all-enbracing?

最后啃4，作者認為Gates怎么看第一段的reviewers

reviewers認為這不是一本現實主義小說

Gates通過主流標準找到了證據，但是有些地方他也說不明白

作者認為要換個角度。

4. The author of the passage suggests that Gates is most like the reviewers mentioned in the first paragraph in which of the following ways? 間接細節(jié)信息題+態(tài)度

A. He points out?discrepancies?between?The Color Purple?and?other?traditional epistolary novels 沒有證據

B. He sees the concern with finding a voice as?central to both?The Color Purple?and?Their Eyes Are Watching God?沒有證據/無關，不是相同點

C. He assumes that?The Color Purple?is intended to be a novel primarily in the tradition of Anglo-American nineteenth-century realism 相反

D. He does not address many of the unsettling structural features of?The Color Purple 對應三段④句

E. He recognizes the departure of?The Color Purple?from traditional Anglo-European realistic novel conventions. 相反

背景拓展：

艾麗斯·沃克(Alice Walker)，女，普利策獎得主、小說家、詩人和社會運動人士，她在作品中反映黑人婦女為自身權利而奮斗，獲得廣大的回響?！蹲仙?983年一舉拿下代表美國文學最高榮譽的三大獎：普利策小說獎、美國國家圖書獎、全國書評家協會獎，小說描述了一位受舊思想束縛的黑人婦女的轉變和成長過程。

《紫色》全書由94封書信構成。主人公西麗亞寫給上帝的信、西麗亞寫給她妹妹內蒂的信（被退回）、內蒂寫給西麗亞的信、西麗亞所愛的女人莎格給西麗亞的信。故事的背景是艾麗斯·沃克所熟悉的美國南方佐治亞鄉(xiāng)村，故事大約發(fā)生在二十世紀初。14歲的黑女孩西麗亞被繼父強奸，生下的兩個孩子也被繼父送走，后來西麗亞的媽媽死了，繼父再婚。西麗亞被嫁給一個已有四個孩子的鰥夫X先生，妹妹內蒂被迫逃走，輾轉到非洲。西麗亞受到X先生的百般虐待，但后來在X先生的情人莎格的愛與幫助下，逐漸轉變?yōu)橐粋€有獨立個性的人。在藝術手法上，《紫色》采用的是傳統的書信體小說的形式。但艾麗斯·沃克突破了以往書信體的基本構思和創(chuàng)作原則，并不注重細節(jié)、真實，而是著力夸張、變形的手法，具有強烈的超現實性和詩意。

《紫色》在敘事技巧上的獨到之處體現在艾麗斯·沃克對語言在敘事策略中的作用的充分把握，西麗亞特有的南方鄉(xiāng)村黑人方言（她唯一知道的語言）制造了一種直接的真實效果，但同時又將讀者與敘述者的環(huán)境有意拉開了距離——他們是局外人、陌生人，說的是另外的一種語言。通過強調西麗亞與內蒂所使用的不同的語言（內蒂受過教育的、來自外面的遙遠的世界的語言）強調敘述者的轉換，因而內蒂的信的出現也就使西麗亞有了對話的可能，使故事繼續(xù)發(fā)展下去，而且使西麗亞與上帝的對話順利地轉換到西麗亞與人的直接對話。伴隨著西麗亞的成長，西麗亞的語言和思想也越來越成熟起來。

自七十年代中期之后，美國許多重要的女作家都開始嘗試具有實驗性的對女性自我的建構和解構的小說形式，如莫里森（Toni Morrison）的《最藍色的眼睛》（1970）、馬麗安娜·赫瑟的《說話的房子》（1975），這些作品的出現，標志著她們對以男性為主的敘述方式（在很多方面都不能充分表現婦女生活的特征）的傳統，以及傳統的女權主義小說的可貴反省與大膽更新。