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2006年英语一阅读理解部分

2006年英语一阅读理解部分
2006年英语一阅读理解部分

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①Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry—William Shakespeare—but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches.

②There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon.

③And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.

①The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue.

②They frankly dislike the RSC's actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness.

③It's all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who

earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making.

①The tourist streams are not entirely separate.

②The sightseers who come by bus—and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side—don't usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford.

③However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing.

④It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town's revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.

⑤The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.

①The townsfolk don't see it this way and the local council does not

contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

②Stratford cries poor traditionally.

③Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge.

④Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.

①Anyway, the townsfolk can't understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy.

②(The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they'll do better.)

③The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.

①It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford's most attractive clientele.

②They come entirely for the plays, not the sights.

③They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over)—lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.

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①When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals: they suddenly became extinct.

②Smaller species survived.

③The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction.

④Now something similar could be happening in the oceans.

①That the seas are being overfished has been known for years.

②What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing.

③They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world.

④Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time.

⑤According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation.

⑥In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.

①Dr. Worm acknowledges that these figures are conservative.

②One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved.

③Today's vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago.

④That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes.

⑤In the early days, too, longlines would have been more saturated with fish.

⑥Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past.

⑦Furthermore, in the early days of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked.

⑧That is no longer a problem, because there are fewer sharks around now.

①Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account.

②They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the“shifting baseline”.

③The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past.

④That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels.

⑤Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to do business.

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①Many things make people think artists are weird.

②But the weirdest may be this: artists' only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.

①This wasn't always so.

②The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy.

③But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil.

①You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery.

②But it's not as if earlier times didn't know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents.

③The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.

①After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness?

②Advertising.

③The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.

①People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery.

②They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young.

③In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that

their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms.

④Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.

①Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy.

②Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling.

③Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes.

④And since these messages have an agenda—to lure us to open our wallets—they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.

⑤“Celebrate!”commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.

①But what we forget—what our economy depends on us forgetting—is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain.

②The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment.

③Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori:remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it.

④It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.

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