单选题 Naturally men who were themselves learned praised learning, all the more because they found themselves the appreciated legatees of a classical inheritance to which their medieval predecessors had paid little attention. The enthusiasm for contact with the learned civility of the ancient world was expressed as early as the 1330s, when Petrarch exclaimed, "I am alive now, yet I would rather have been born in another time, " and wrote eloquent letters to the heroes he could only meet through their works. By including examples of these among his widely circulated correspondence, he encouraged others to see the part learning had played in antiquity, whether in the person of a Cicero, who was both philosopher and participatory man of affairs, or of a Livy who recorded public events as an inspiration to posterity. In Floreance in the 1430s, Matteo Palmieri wrote in his Delia Vita Civile or on "civil" life "now indeed may every thoughtful spirit thank God that it has been permitted to him to be born in this new age. " But, while mentioning the revitalization of the arts as part of the recapture of classical attainments, he stressed above all the importance of "philosophy and wisdom" being at last "drunk from the pure fountainhead. " He was writing for a politically responsible class for whom learning was more important than diversion. And this was the emphasis that was taken up in the North from the early sixteenth century. When Celtis urged his fellow Germans to show the world that they were not cultural barbarians he spoke not of the arts but of learning. For Erasmus in 1517 all over the world, as if on a given signal, splendid talents are stirring and conspiring together to revive the best learning, but it was for their blindness to learning, not the arts, that he criticized the "Philistines". Steadily, learning, or at least a more than superficial education, came to be taken for granted by those for whom it was not a vocation. As for the prince himself, Botero in 1598 repeated the medieval quip: "an unlettered prince is a crowned ass. "

单选题 In Lines 2 -3 of Paragraph 1 is " ...to which their medieval predecessors had paid little attention" to which an explanation one offers may be that______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：根据题干定位到原文第一段，结合题干中“to which an explanation one offers may be”这样的提问方式，我们需要寻找“their medieval predecessors had paid little attention”的合理的解释，C选项讲述了当时人们的关注点，作为对原文的解释是恰当的。因为“不识庐山真面目，只缘身在此山中”这样的原因，当时的人们只顾建造或创造文明与文化，与后人站在旁观的角度去欣赏这些“classical inheritance”，不同的是，他们反而“paid little attention”，也正因为这样，后人才更加感觉自己是“appreciated legatees”。

单选题 In the middle of Paragraph 1 is "By including example of these among his widely circulated correspondence"which one my regard as showing that______.

A、 Petrarch compiled and published the odd letters he wrote to the best of his heroes from history
B、 Petrarch compiled and published his letters in which he asked the reader to follow the example of his dead heroes
C、 Petrarch often wrote in the letters to his friends about his dead heroes with whom he could only meet through their works
D、 Petrarch often wrote odd letters to his friends from history whom he set as an example he thought it was worthwhile to follow

单选题 There appear in Paragraph 1 such figures as Petrarch, Cicero and Livy, all of whom one may, judging by reading the paragraph, put in the rank of______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：结合三个人的具体做法，Petrarch是“wrote eloquent letters to the heroes he could only meet through theirworks”，Cicero是“both philosopher and participatory man of affairs”，而Livy则是“recorded public events asan inspiration on posterity”，但他们的共同之处，都是一种深刻的思考和学习的过程，在四个选项中，只有A选项的meditation可以表达这样的意思，为正确答案。

单选题 All throughout Paragraph 2 the author seems to stress the fact that people took arts for learning as such which for him are not quite the same. All the sentences in the following are suggestive of that except______.

A、 ...now indeed may every thoughtful spirit thank God that it has been permitted to him to be born in this new age
B、 But, while mentioning the revitalization of the arts as part of the recapture of classical attainments, he stressed above all...
C、 When Celtis urged his fellow Germans to show the world that... cultural barbarians he spoke not of the arts but of learning
D、 ...but is was for their blindness to learning, not the arts, that he criticized the "Philistines"

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：题目定位到原文第二段，结合作者的观点，作者不认同那些把arts和learning这两个概念混为一谈的观点，B选项中的引文用“philosophy and wisdom”来指代learning，并指出其是属于“above all the importance”的，C选项的引文通过“not of the arts but of learning”来对两个概念进行区分，D选项的引文也用“their blindnessto learning，not the arts”来对两者进行区分，没有从这个角度进行讨论，A选项为正确答案。