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  SAT阅读练习题 SAT Reading Comprehension Test 6

  I have yet to meet a poetry-lover under thirty who was

  not an introvert, or an introvert who was not unhappy in

  adolescence. At school, particularly, maybe, if, as in my own

  case, it is a boarding school, he sees the extrovert successful,

  5 happy, and good and himself unpopular or neglected; and what is

  hardest to bear is not unpopularity, but the consciousness that it

  is deserved, that he is grubby and inferior and frightened and

  dull. Knowing no other kind of society than the contingent, he

  imagines that this arrangement is part of the eternal scheme of

  10 things, that he is doomed to a life of failure and envy. It is not till

  he grows up, till years later he runs across the heroes of his

  school days and finds them grown commonplace and sterile, that

  he realizes that the introvert is the lucky one, the best adapted to

  an industrial civilization the collective values of which are so

  15 infantile that he alone can grow, who has educated his fantasies

  and learned how to draw upon the resources of his inner life. At

  the time, however, his adolescence is unpleasant enough. Unable

  to imagine a society in which he would feel at home, he turns

  away from the human to the nonhuman: homesick he will seek,

  20 not his mother, but mountains or autumn woods, and the

  growing life within him will express itself in a devotion to music

  and thoughts upon mutability and death. Art for him will be

  something infinitely precious, pessimistic, and hostile to life. If it

  speaks of love it must be love frustrated, for all success seems to

  25 him noisy and vulgar; if it moralizes, it must counsel a stoic

  resignation, for the world he knows is well content with itself and

  will not change.

  Deep as first love and wild with all regret,

  O death in life, the days that are no more.

  Now more than ever seems it sweet to die

  To cease upon the midnight with no pain.

  35 That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is

  the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson, Keats,

  Swinburne, Housman or another, awakens a passion of imitation

  and an affectation which no subsequent refinement or

  sophistication of his taste can entirely destroy. In my own case it

  40 was Hardy in the summer of 1923; for more than a year I read no

  one else and I do not think that I was ever without one volume or

  another or the beautifully produced Wessex edition in my hands:

  I smuggled them into class, carried them about on Sunday walks,

  and took them up to the dormitory to read in the early morning,

  45 though they were far too unwieldy to be read in bed with

  comfort. In the autumn of 1924 there was a palace revolution

  after which he had to share his kingdom with Edward Thomas,

  until finally they were both defeated by Elliot at the battle of

  Oxford in 1926.

  50 Besides serving as the archetype of the Poetic, Hardy was

  also an expression of the contemporary scene. He was both my

  Keats and my Sandburg.

  To begin with, he looked like my father: that broad

  unpampered moustache, bald forehead, and deeply lined

  55 sympathetic face belonged to that other world of feeling and

  sensation. Here was a writer whose emotions, if sometimes

  monotonous and sentimental in expression, would be deeper and

  more faithful than my own, and whose attachment to the earth

  would be more secure and observant.


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strike [straik]

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n. 罢工,打击,殴打
v. 打,撞,罢工,划

 
appeal [ə'pi:l]

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n. 恳求,上诉,吸引力
n. 诉诸裁决

联想记忆
sentimental [.senti'mentl]

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adj. 感伤性的,感情脆弱的

联想记忆
obsession [əb'seʃən]

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n. 困扰,沉迷,着魔,妄想

联想记忆
hostility [hɔs'tiliti]

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n. 敌意,敌对状态,公开战争

 
immediate [i'mi:djət]

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adj. 立即的,即刻的,直接的,最接近的

联想记忆
secure [si'kjuə]

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adj. 安全的,牢靠的,稳妥的
vt. 固定

联想记忆
fault [fɔ:lt]

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n. 缺点,过失,故障,毛病,过错,[地]断层

 
explanation [.eksplə'neiʃən]

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n. 解释,说明

 
introverted [,intrəu'və:tid]

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adj. 内向的 v. 使内翻;使...内向(intro

 

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