单选题 {{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for
each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
With the spread of inter-active
electronic media a man alone in his own home will never have been so well placed
to fill the inexplicable mental space between cradle and crematorium. So I
suspect that books will be pushed more and more into those moments of travel or
difficult defecation{{U}} (1) {{/U}}people still don't quite know what
to do with. When people do read, I think they'll want to feel
they are reading literature, or (2) something serious.{{U}} (3)
{{/U}}you're going to find fewer books presenting themselves as no-nonsense
and{{U}} (4) {{/U}}assuming literary pretensions and being
packaged as works of art. We can expect an extraordinary variety of genre, but
with an underlying{{U}} (5) {{/U}}of sentiment and vision.
Translators can only{{U}} (6) {{/U}}from this desire for the
presumably sophisticated. We can look forward to lots of difficult names and
fantastic stories of foreign parts enthusiastically{{U}} (7) {{/U}}by
the overall worship of the "global village'. Much of this will be awful and some
wonderful,{{U}} (8) {{/U}}don't expect the press or the organizers of
prizes to offer you much help in making the appropriate distinctions. They will
be chiefly{{U}} (9) {{/U}}in creating celebrity, the greatest
enemy of discrimination, but a good prop for the{{U}} (10)
{{/U}}consumer. Every ethnic grouping over the world will
have to be seen to have a great writer—a phenomenon that will{{U}} (11)
{{/U}}a new kind of provincialism, more chronological than geographic,{{U}}
(12) {{/U}}only the strictly contemporary is talked about and{{U}}
(13) {{/U}}Universities, including Cambridge, will include{{U}}
(14) {{/U}}their literature syllabus novels, written only last
year.{{U}} (15) {{/U}}occasional exhumation for the Nobel, the
achievements of ten or only five years ago will be largely forgotten.
In short, you can't go too far wrong when predicting more of the same. But
there is a{{U}} (16) {{/U}}side to this—the inevitable reaction against
it. The practical things I would like to see happen--publishers seeking less
to{{U}} (17) {{/U}}celebrity through extravagant advertising,{{U}}
(18) {{/U}}and magazines{{U}} (19) {{/U}}space to reflective
pieces—are rather more improbable than the Second Coming(耶稣复临). But dullness
never quite darkens the whole planet. In their own idiosyncratic fashion a few
writers will{{U}} (20) {{/U}}be looking for new
departures.
【答案解析】[解题思路] 语篇连贯。根据语篇，该句but前后是转折关系，前面描述an extraordinary variety of genre(多种多样的文体类型)，后面描述an underlying conformity of sentiment and vision (隐含的情趣和见识的一致性)。variety意为“多样性”；mechanism意为“机械，机制”； monotone意为“单调，乏味”。