单选题 Dancer Martha Graham trained her body to move in different ways and in different contexts from any before attempted "Life today is nervous, sharp, and zigzag," she said, "it often stops in midair. That is what I aim for in my dances. " She insisted she never started out to be a rebel. It was only that the emotions she had to express could not be projected through any of the traditional forms. This was in 1925. All forms of art were undergoing a revolution. The theories of psychology were being used to extend the boundaries of poetry, music, and painting. Martha Graham"s first dance concert in her new idiom occurred on April 18, 1926. Experts of dance gathered at the Forty-eight Street Theatre in New York and witnessed Martha Graham"s first foray into this new realm of dance. They saw, through such dance sequences as "Three Gobi Maidens", and "A Study in Lacquer", desires and conflicts expressed through bodily movement. These critics agreed that something entirely new, a departure from all previous forms had been witnessed. In the early thirties, she founded the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. Her classes were used as laboratory for her stage works, and her stage works in turn were a means for attracting new pupils to her school—a sort of self-winding process, with herself as the key to the development. Martha Graham and the school she had founded are virtually equivalent to the modern dance. She had not only produced a technique of dance, choreographed and taught it, but her students have gone out to fill the modern dance world.
单选题 The passage is written to tell us______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:这是一道主旨题。阅读全文,我们会发现本文讲述的是舞蹈家Martha Gra—ham在20世纪二三十年代对现代舞所做的革新,因此选项C符合文章的大意。选项A“如今的生活充满欲望和冲突”,文章中并没有提及。选项B“一位舞蹈家的人生观”和选项D“20世纪20年代艺术形式的革命”只体现了文章的局部内容,是典型的以偏概全的选项。
单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that, at the beginning of her career, Martha Graham"s mode of dance was______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:这是一道推理题,题干中infer一词明确了本题的类型和答题要求。答题时要注意题干中的“in the beginning of her career”,也就是说这道题要求考生回答在MarthaGraham舞蹈生涯的起步阶段,人们对她舞蹈形式的看法。文章的第一段有这么一句话:“She insisted she never started out to be a rebel.”从这句话中我们可以知道Martha Gra—ham的本意并不是做一个离经叛道的人,也就是说当时的人们认为她的舞蹈具有反叛的因素。因此选择D。
单选题 According to the passage, Martha Graham"s style of dance is______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:这是一道细节题。文章第三段的最后一句话“这些评论家一致认为他们目睹了一种与传统截然不同的全新的舞蹈形式”说明Martha Graham的舞蹈风格跟传统舞蹈有所不同,因此选择B。
单选题 Martha Graham"s school of dance was______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:这也是一道细节题,根据题干,我们定位到文章的倒数第二段。文章提到在20世纪30年代初,Martha Graham创办了她的当代舞蹈学校,将课堂作为自己舞台作品的实验室,而她的舞台作品反过来又吸引了新的学生。这就形成了一个自动循环的过程,而这一过程的关键正是Martha Graham本人。而文章最后一段进一步说明Martha Graham以及她所创办的学校对现代舞起着同样重要的作用。从中我们可以知道她的舞蹈学校很成功,培养了大批的人才。因此选择B。文章没有提及选项A“经营不善”,选项C“赚钱的和有效的”和选项D“现代舞蹈界的败笔”。
单选题 We can infer from the passage that the present status of Martha Graham"s work______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:这是一道推理题,要求考生推断Martha Graham作品的现状。回答这道题的关键在于理解文章的最后一句话“她不仅自创了一种舞蹈技巧,自己设计、编排舞蹈动作并传授之,而且她的学生也遍及现代舞蹈界”。从这句话中,我们可以推断现在Martha Graham的作品主要由她的学生来演绎和传承,因此选择A。