阅读理解 Whether you are writing about literature or a rock concert, there are several points about the evaluative essay you have to keep in mind. First, avoid using language that is simplistically judgmental. Don''t say that something is great or beautiful or exciting or interesting. Your readers are apt to become defensive: "We''ll be the judge of that," they''ll say. Your job as the writer of this essay is to show how the work under consideration is beautiful or exciting. If you do that well, your readers will be convinced of the work''s beauty without your saying that it''s beautiful. An occasional, off-handed "beautiful" or "exciting" is all right; just don''t expect your readers to be convinced unless you make them feel that beauty or excitement. Second, don''t re-tell the story. Only a sentence or two is enough to cover the story of an entire novel. If you spend your essay telling readers what happened in The Bluest Eye, they'' re going to wonder why they aren''t reading Toni Morrison''s novel instead of your essay; after all, the Nobel Prize winner probably did a better job telling her story than you could ever do. Your job is to provide some insight into how Morrison did what she did. Then, in reading your essay, readers will say, "Wow! That''s great! I better go read that novel." There will be occasions when you are forced to use the specialized vocabulary that people who really like this kind of art are used to using. Reading the CD booklets of jazz albums is sometimes like reading a foreign language if you'' re not hip. That''s to be expected. If it is written well, your reader will go along with you. You can''t be expected to review a rock concert with the same language that you'' d use to review the performance of a string quartet (管弦四重奏). Critics who write about art sometimes have their own vocabulary for doing so, and you need to be at least somewhat familiar with that vocabulary before writing seriously about art.

单选题 According to the author, what kind of comments you'' d better avoid in your review?

单选题 According to the passage, to write an impressive evaluative essay, the author should________.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】理解题。本文的主旨就是为写艺术评论的初学者提供建议，包括：第二段：避免使用过多的评判性语言；第三段：避免过多地复述原文；第四段：恰当地使用专业术语，应该这样做的原因是，都直接或间接地提到让读者自己思考并认识作品的精彩之处，因此本题的四个选项中A是最佳答案。B和D文中未提及，C与第二条建议背道而驰。

单选题 What may be the effect of good review according to the third paragraph?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】段落理解题。第三段的主题句：don''t re-tell the story(不要复述故事)，其中提到的原因是：评论再好，其叙述故事的水平不可能超过原作，但是应该provide some insights(启发读者领悟)，读者因而会说：Wow！That''s great! I better go read that novel．也就是说使读者对作品产生强烈的兴趣。答案是C。

单选题 According to the fourth paragraph, what is the author''s attitude toward using specialized words?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】段落理解题。第四段的主要内容是评论中是否使用、如何使用专业术语的问题。首先作者讲到过多使用可能造成文章难以理解，但又说明没有必要因为难以理解就完全不用，最后，文章说：Critics who write about art sometimes have their own vocabulary for doing so，and you need to be at least somewhat familiar with that vocabulary before writing seriously about art．(写艺术评论的批评家有时会有独特的评论性词汇，而你如果想认真地做艺术评论，就应该熟悉这些词汇)，说明A是正确答案。

单选题 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节题。选项涉及文中多处内容，需逐一判断。A和相关内容在第二段，但文中指出：An occasional，off-handed “beautiful” or “exciting” is all right(偶尔用几次“美好”、“令人兴奋”之类的词没什么问题)，可见A的意思与原文不符。B的相关内容出现在第四段，文中指出：Reading the CD booklets of jazz albums is sometimes like reading a foreign language if you''re not hip．(如果你对爵士乐不了解，那么读爵士乐专辑的小册子就如同读天书。)，可见B是正确的。C是第四段所举的例子，旨在说明不同的领域其专业术语不同，并不说明这两种音乐是乐迷最喜爱的，所以C也不对。D的相关内容出现在第三段。文中提到诺贝尔获奖者，是为了说明写艺术评论没有必要复述原书的内容，因为作者写得更精彩。文中没有提及诺贝尔获奖者写评论一事，所以D是错误的。