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2021年阅读真题 香香版【根据老师上课内容整理】 （2021年真题香香整理）Text1Of all the changes ｛定语从句that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century｝在近25年里，英语报纸发生了许多变化。在这些变化当中，, perhaps the most far-reaching（change）has been the inexorable decline衰退in the scope范围and seriousness 严肃性of their arts coverage报道. 艺术报道在范围上的缩小和严肃性的下降It isdifficult这是困难的to the point of impossibility介词短语做状语｛实际主语for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism 高质量的艺术评论文章could be found in most big-city newspapers｝以前有，现在没有，lost→25题.四十岁以下的读者几乎难以想象大城市的报纸上一翻开就能找到高质量的评论。Yet｛主语a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century｝consisted 构成in large part of newspaper reviews.在二十世纪人们出版了许多非常重要的评论集，这些评论集主要是由报纸评论构成的To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.We are even farther removed消除，远离from reviews ｛定语published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II（22题）｝, at a time when定语newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament 装饰品to the publications in which it appeared有风格的文学评论是报纸的一种装饰. In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered. Theirs was a serious business,他们的评论是严肃的and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,从外表上看似乎没有那么大学问的人like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about也知道他们在干嘛. 两次提到这两个人，考后These men believed in journalism as a calling召唤, and were proud to be published in the daily press对他们写的东西发表感到骄傲. “So因此few authors没有几个作者have brains enough有足够的智力or literary gift enough 足够的文学天赋to keep their own end up在…方面出人头地in journalism新闻界,” Newman wrote, “that以至于I am tempted to define …journalism?给新闻下个定义as …a term of contempt蔑视applied by writers ｛who are not read｝to writers who are（read）.那些没有