第一章 GRE阅读无忧系列之练习(三)-智课教育旗下智课教育.pdfVIP

智 课 网 G R E 备 考 资 料 GRE阅读无忧系列之练习(三)-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GRE阅读无忧系列之练习(三)，里面是智课教育小编精心整 理的主旨题练习题，每个练习题有答案和解析，希望能够助考生取得G RE阅读高分。 主旨题1 ThomasHardy’s impulses as a writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, werenumerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters’psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. Occasionallyhe felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well as theimpulse to farce, but he was more often inclined to see tragedy and record it.He was also inclined to literary realism in the several senses of that phrase.He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculate on their dilemmas rationally (and,unfortunately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely thematerial universe. Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted totranscend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording thingsexactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange. Inhis novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably andoften. Inevitably, because Hardy did not care in theway that novelists such as Flaubert or James cared, and therefore took paths ofleast resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrendered toa fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simplydisappeared. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might giveway abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider anovelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and textureof a flower. In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one,and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style. But on otheroccasions Hardy abandoned a perilous, risky, andhighly energizing impulse in favor of what was