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智 课 网 G R E 备 考 资 料 GRE阅读无忧系列之练习(四)-智课教育旗下智课教育 对于GRE阅读，想要取得高分的唯一捷径就是多做练习题，熟能生 巧，在考场上才能得心应手。尽于此，智课教育推出GRE阅读无忧系列 之练习，帮助大家更好地备考。 以下是(四)，里面是智课教育小编精心整理的练习题，每个练习题 有答案，希望能够助考生取得 GRE阅读 高分。 “Masterpiecesare dumb,” wrote Flaubert, “They have a tranquil aspect like the very productsof nature, like large animals and mountains.” He might have been thinking ofWar and Peace, that vast, silent work, unfathomable and simple, provokingendless questions through the majesty of its being. Tolstoi’s simplicity is “overpowering,”says the critic Bayley, “disconcerting,” because it comes from “his casualassumption that the world is as he sees it.” Like other nineteenth-centuryRussian writers he is “impressive” because he “means what he says,” but hestands apart from all others and from most Western writers in his identity withlife, which is so complete as to make us forget he is an artist. He is thecenter of his work, but his egocentricity is of a special kind. Goethe, forexample, says Bayley, “cared for nothing but himself. Tolstoi was nothing buthimself.” For all his varied modes of writing and themultiplicity of characters in his fiction, Tolstoi and his work are of a piece.The famous “conversion” of his middle years, movingly recounted in hisConfession, was a culmination of his early spiritual life, not a departure fromit. The apparently fundamental changes that led from epic narrative to dogmaticparable, from a joyous, buoyant attitude toward life to pessimism and cynicism,from War and Peace to The Kreutzer Sonata, came from the same restless,impressionable depths of an independent spirit yearning to get at the truth ofits experience. “Truth is my hero,” wrote Tolstoi in his youth, reporting thefighting in Sebastopol. Truth remained his hero—his own, not others’, truth.Others were awed by Napoleon, believed that a single man could change thedestinies of nations, adhered to meaningless rituals, formed their tastes onestablish