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2000年Passage 3
 
When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal. With regard to Futurist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be even admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right, it can hardly be classed as Literature.
 
This, in brief, is what the Futurist says; for a noise and violence and speed. Consequently, our feelings, thoughts and emotions have undergone a corresponding change. This speeding up of life, says the Futurist, requires a new form of expression. We must speed up our literature too, if we want to interpret modern stress. We must pour out a large stream of essential words, unhampered by stops, or qualifying adjectives, of finite verbs. Instead of describing sounds we must make up words that imitate them; we must use many sizes of type and different colored inks on the same page, and shorten or lengthen words at will.
 
Certainly their descriptions of battles are confused. But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river and then to find that the line consists of the noise of their falling and the weights of the officers:' Pluff! Pluff! A hundred and eighty-five kilograms.'
 
This, though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futurist poetry, can hardly be classed as Literature. All the same, no thinking man can refuse to accept their first proposition: that a great change in our emotional life calls for a change of expression. The whole question is really this: have we essentially changed?

59. This passage is mainly____.
[A] a survey of new approaches to art
[B] a review of Futurist poetry
[C] about merits of the Futurist movement
[D] about laws and requirements of literature

[答案] B

[解题思路]

这道题要求从宏观上判断文章的主旨，考生在阅读全文、尤其是重点考察各段首句（即主题句）之后得出结论不会困难，即本文讨论的是对未来派诗歌的评论，因此B为正确选项。A的错误在于本文不算是一个survey（调查）。C选项虽涉及未来派诗歌，却不是文章讨论的主要话题。D选项更是与原文风格不相符，可以迅速派出。

[题目译文]

这篇文章主要                        。
[A] 评论新的艺术手法
[B] 评论未来派诗歌
[C] 讨论未来主义运动的优点
[D] 讨论文学的规律和要求