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【题目】根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
The Swedish Academy's mid-October announcement regarding literature seldom fails to cause second-guessing.
Bob Dylan was awarded the big prize this morning, and my social media has been alive with indignation ever since. The Nobel did not go to those excellent novelists but to a songwriter. Some of those same people are still protesting that last year it was warded to Svetlana Alexievich, a “journalist”. They have decided, for whatever reasons, that song lyrics(歌词) are not literature.
And people are upset because Bob Dylan is the voice of some generation other than theirs, because he works in a popular style, because he does not work in this minute's popular style, because he appeared on a car commercial that aired during the Super Bowl, because his songwriting skills dropped off — he was famous long ago, after all.
You may not think of Dylan as a poet, but Dylan created a climate in which lyrics were taken seriously. And Dylan accomplished something that few novelists or poets or for that matter songwriters have managed to do in our time: he changed the time he lived. Through words, with music, he affected the opinions and ambitions of hundreds of millions of people all over the world. The Nobel Prize in Literature cannot ever be all things to all people, and while this year's award failed to accomplish various possible objectives, it was not in any way misapplied.
（1）What does the underlined word “indignation” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.Curiosity.
B.Happiness.
C.Excitement.
D.Anger.
（2）Why are people upset about Dylan's being awarded?
A.He failed to represent any generation.
B.He didn't have good songwriting skills.
C.He played badly in the Super Bowl.
D.He is not popular any longer.
（3）Paragraph 4 mainly focuses on Dylan's _________.
A.style
B.influence
C.efforts
D.ambitions
（4）Which can serve as the title of the passage?
A.No dish suits all tastes
B.Great minds think alike
C.Misfortune may be actual blessing
D.Judge not according to the appearance

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）D
（2）D
（3）B
（4）A
【解析】本文主要介绍了诺贝尔文学奖颁发给了歌词作家Bob Dylan，此事引起了人们的争论，认为歌词不是文学作品，但Bob Dylan对文化的贡献是值得肯定的。
（1）词义猜测题。根据画线句后的The Nobel did not go to those excellent novelists but to a songwriter.可知，一些人不满诺贝尔文学奖不颁发给优秀的小说家而是颁给了一个词曲作者，所以我们的社会媒体应该是充满愤怒。由此可知画线词词义为“愤怒、生气”，故D项正确。
（2）细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句“because his songwriting skills dropped off—he was famous long ago, after all.”可知，一些人不满诺贝尔文学奖颁给Bob Dylan是因为他们认为Bob Dylan的歌曲创作能力已经下降，他是很久以前出名，现在已经不再出名了，故选D项正确。
（3）推理判断题。通读第四段可知，本段主要介绍了Bob Dylan的作品对人们及文化的影响，他创作了一种认真对待歌词的氛围，获得了其他小说家和诗人无法比拟的成就，改变了我们生活的这个时代，影响着世界各地人民的观点和抱负，故选B项正确。
（4）主旨大意题。由全文内容特别是最后一段可知，诺贝尔文学奖颁发给了Bob Dylan，但人们对此褒贬不一，这充分印证了众口难调的道理。A. No dish suits all tastes. 众口难调；B. Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同；C. Misfortune may be actual blessing. 塞翁失马，焉知非福；D. Judge not according to the appearance. 不要以貌取人。故选A项正确。