单选题 The great question that this paper will, but feebly, attempt to answer is, what is the creative process?
Though much theory has accumulated, little is really known about the power that lies at the bottom of poetic creation. It is true that great poets and artists produce beauty by employing all the powers of personality and by fusing emotions, reason, and intuitions. But what is the magical synthesis that joins and arranges these complex parts into poetic unity?
John L. Lowes, in his justly famous "The Road to Xanadu", developed one of the earliest and still generally acceptable answers to this tantalizing question. Imaginative creation, he concludes, is a complex process in which the conscious and unconscious minds jointly operate. "There is... the Deep Well with its chaos of fortuitously blending images; but there is likewise the Vision which sees shining in and through the chaos of the potential lines of Form, and with the Vision, the controlling Will, which gives to that potential beauty actuality." The Deep Well is the unconscious mind that is peopled with the facts, ideas, and feelings of the conscious activity. The imaginative vision, an unconscious activity, shines through the land of chaos, of lights and shadows, silently seeking pattern and form. Finally, the conscious mind again, through Will, captures and embodies the idea in the final work of art. In this way is unity born out of chaos.
Though there can be no absolute certainty, there is general agreement that the periods in the development of a creative work parallel, to some extent, Lowes" theory of Well, Vision, Form, and Will. There are at least three stages in the creative process: preparation, inspiration, work.
In a sense, the period of preparation is all of the writer"s life. It is the Deep Well. It is especially a period of concentration which gives the unconscious mind an opportunity to communicate with the conscious mind. When remembrances of things past reach the conscious level of the writer"s mind, he is ready to go on with the process. Part of this preparation involves learning a medium—learning a language, learning how to write, learning literary forms. It is important to mot here that form cannot be imposed upon the idea. Evidence, though sparse, shows that the idea gives birth to the form that can best convey it. It is the Vision, according to Lowes, which sees shining in and through the chaws of the potential lines of Form..."
单选题 When remembrances of things past reach the conscious level, the post has reached the stage called ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。第三段倒数第二句“最终又是清醒的思维,通过意志,在其最终的艺术作品中捕捉和体现了这种思想观念”。第五段第四句:“当作者回溯以往事情达到了有意识的水平时,他就具备(准备)了继续创作进程的条件。这种准备工作中有一部分涉及学习媒介——学习语言,学习如何写,学习文学形式。”第二段体现了意志是有意识思维的集中表现。A.源泉,来源,顾名思义,也是最初的东西。B.洞察力,视觉。C.形式。
单选题 Which of the following statements is TRUE?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。最后一段指出:部分准备工作涉及学习媒介——学习语言,学习如何写,学习文学形式,这里要注意文学形式不能强加于思想观念。证据虽然很少,但也表明思想观念催生适合传递它的文学形式。A.形式决定主题。C.形象使美变得真实。D.作者在准备写作时处于无意识状态。可知B最恰当。
单选题 The word "fortuitously" in the third paragraph means ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 词汇题。A.偶然地;B.幸运地,fortuitously一词确实有“幸运地”之义。但这里上下文的含义是“偶然地”;C.彻底地,透彻地;D.潜在地,可能地。
单选题 The remembrance of things past is carried on in the ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。第三段第四至六句“深层的源泉是无意识思维,内中塞满了各种事实、观点和意识活动的情感。富有想象力的洞察力是一种无意识的活动,在杂乱的土壤中闪烁光辉,忽明忽暗,默默地探索模式和形式。最后,又是有意识的思维,通过意志……。”这里说明回溯过去是在深井阶段进行。B.视觉,是在探索表现形式;C.杂乱的光亮和阴影,明面和暗面;D.有意识思维。
单选题 What is the relationship between idea and form?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。思想产生形式,形式也反映思想。文中最后一段的倒数二句:“It is important to mot here that form cannot be imposed upon the idea. Evidence, though sparse, shows that the idea gives birth to the form that can best convey it. ”意思是:“特别要提示的是形式不能被强加到思想上,有证据(虽然是零星的)表明思想会产生最能表达它的形式。”