In this passage, the author's tone and attitude towards the design and accomplishment of the Sydney Opera House is ______.A.highly criticalB.cold and objectiveC.sympathetic yet reservedD.positive and appreciative

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In this passage, the author's tone and attitude towards the design and accomplishment of the Sydney Opera House is ______.

A.highly critical

B.cold and objective

C.sympathetic yet reserved

D.positive and appreciative


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2.It is pretty hopeless as a venue for opera, it took years to build, its architect was forced to resign and it was never properly finished inside. None of this matters. The Sydney Opera House, by the reclusive Danish architect Jorn Utzon, is the mother and father of all modern landmark buildings. It has come to define not only a city, but an entire nation and continent.Beyond that, it is a global expression of cultural modernity. Everyone in the world with media access knows what the Sydney Opera House looks like. First designed in 1956 and finally declared completed in 1973, the opera house was the single best known modern building in the world until the arrival of Frank Gehry's equally extraordinary Bilbao Guggenheim in 1997. But it will outlive the Guggenheim as an international architectural icon--because it did all the difficult work tint.In the pantheon(万神殿) of classic modern buildings, Utzon's creation has the status of myth. The myth states that the unknown architect, then in his thirties, submitted rough sketches to the competition judges, that he ignored most of the rules, that his as only selected after being plucked at the last moment from the rejected pile by one of the judges, and that the design was unbuildable.But Sydney is remarkable for another reason: it is a complete one-off. It does not fit into any stylistic or chronological category. None of Utzon's other buildings--churches, government departments, house. looks anything like it, and architects today who try to copy his concept always end up looking very second-rate indeed. It is "modern", certainly, but it is an expressive modernism that was quite at odds with the rectilinear(直线的) "international style" of its time. It has more in common with the work of the American genius Frank Uloyd Wright, for whom Utzon worked briefly. Of course its location is an enormous help, sitting as it does on a promontory with water on three sides and the famous Sydney Harbor Bridge as a picture-postcard backdrop. But Utzon masterly exploited the site as nobody else could.Utzon left Australia in high indignation in 1966, never to return, before he could finish designing the interiors.As with Sir Christopher Wren at St Paul's Cathedral, Utzon was humiliated and removed from overseeing the final stages of his masterwork. But for all his manifold difficulties, which other contemporary architect can claim an equivalent achievement? The Sydney Opera House showed us that anything is possible, and it demonstrated that sheer, seductive beauty for its own sake is nothing to be ashamed of.It can be inferred from the passage that ______.A.the Danish architect Join Utzon totally failed in his design of Sydney Opera House and was forced to resignB.the Danish architect Jorn Utzon has been made known as the founder of all the modern landmark buildings, in spite of his part failure in his design of Sydney Opera HouseC.Sydney Opera House is hopelessly ugly and has never been finished insideD.Sydney Opera House is the single best known modern building in the world up to now

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  • 第1题:

    The design of the Sydney Opera House has been taken as a myth because ______.

    A.it was the workpiece of the famous architect

    B.it met most of the rules for architectural design at that time

    C.the design project suggested by Utzon was unbuildable

    D.it was designed by an unknown architect and was thought unbuildable at that time


    正确答案:D
    解析:细节题。由题干myth定位到第三段第二句,这里指出悉尼歌剧院成为神话的原因为the unknown architect,ignored most of the rules以及the design was unbuildable。D是对第一个和第三个原因的总结,为正确答案。A中的famous architect与原文unknown architect不符;B中的meet与原文中的ignore冲突;C只是片面说法。

  • 第2题:

    What is the author's attitude towards IQ tests?

    [A] Supportive.

    [B] Skeptical.

    [C] Impartial.

    [D] Biased


    正确答案:B

  • 第3题:

    The author' s attitude towards pain is ______.

    A) pessimistic

    B) optimistic

    C) radical

    D) practical


    正确答案:B
    答案:B
    [试题分析]事实推断题。
    [详细解答]作者对待疼痛的态度应该是乐观的。因为全篇对人类对付疼痛的几个例子显然都是持赞赏态度的。尤其是最后一句话,and sensations are the stuff of life,作者的态度更是可见一斑。所以正确答案为D。

  • 第4题:

    According to the passage, the author’s attitude towards the productivity revolutionin the U.S.A is ____. [A] biased

    [B] optimistic

    [C] ambiguous

    [D] negative


    正确答案:D
    50. [D]否定的。 本题问:根据文章,作者对美国提高生产率的革命态度如何?作者在文章的一开头就提出,本文要讨论“得不偿失、劳而无功”的问题,所以作者对这场提高生产率革命的态度显然是否定的。故选D。A有偏心的,有偏见的。  B 乐观的。  C模棱两可的。均不符合题意,不能入选。

  • 第5题:

    The author’s attitude towards the privatization proposal is_____.

    [A] impartial [B] suspicious [C] neutral [D] approval


    正确答案:B

  • 第6题:


    What is the author’s attitude towards Apple’s FaceID technology on iPhone X?( )

    A.Promising
    B.Skeptical
    C.Supportive
    D.Neutral

    答案:B
    解析:

  • 第7题:

    单选题
    _____ paid for the cost of the building of the Sydney Opera House.
    A

    Utzon

    B

    The public

    C

    Queen Elizabeth II

    D

    The government


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    由第二段第一句“The Sydney House cost around ... by the public”可知选项B正确。

  • 第8题:

    单选题
    The author’s tone in writing the passage is _____.
    A

    ironic

    B

    sympathetic

    C

    relieving

    D

    angry


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    作者讲述了女性目前就业情况以及她们所面临的问题,可以看出作者对她们的处境充满同情。

  • 第9题:

    单选题
    Which is the best title for the passage?
    A

    Sailing Roof

    B

    Traveling in Sydney

    C

    The Sydney Opera House

    D

    The Opening of the Opera House


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    文章主要介绍了悉尼歌剧院的开建,设计、施工、人力物力和世界影响,故选项C符合题意。

  • 第10题:

    单选题
    What’s the author’s attitude towards puppy love?
    A

    disapproving

    B

    confused

    C

    neutral

    D

    scared


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    根据第三段内容“…Trying romance often causes the depression. She advises kids not to jump into romance too early.”可知。他不同意早恋的行为。

  • 第11题:

    单选题
    In Passage 2, the author's tone can be characterized as ______.
    A

    extremist and accusatory

    B

    judgmental yet optimistic

    C

    passionate and naive

    D

    depressing but determined

    E

    evaluative and pessimistic


    正确答案: C
    解析:
    作者在文中表达了自己的很多消极的看法,如“chimpanzees suffer greatly”“almost no good fate for captive chimpanzees”,故选E项最合适。

  • 第12题:

    单选题
    The author’s attitude towards the Danes is generally ______.
    A

    positive

    B

    negative

    C

    indifferent

    D

    hostile


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    作者态度题。文章首段作者便指出丹麦人的很谦虚,随后客观谈论了丹麦人和其国家的特点,由此可知整体上作者对丹麦还是持肯定态度的。positive肯定的,积极的。

  • 第13题:

    The author's attitude towards the government's policy is ______.

    A. negative

    B. doubtful

    C. positive

    D. unknown


    正确答案:D

    40.答案为D。从全文来看,作者对监狱犯人的现状并没有支持或反对,因此态度不明确。

  • 第14题:

    What is the author\\\'s attitude towards IQ tests?

    A.Supportive.

    B.Skeptical.

    C.Impartial.

    D.Biased.


    正确答案:B

  • 第15题:

    What is the passage mainly about?( )

    A. The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.

    B. The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.

    C. The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English.

    D. The author’s experiences of using broken English.


    正确答案:A

  • 第16题:

    The author’s attitude towards euthanasia seems to be that of ________.

    [A] opposition

    [B] suspicion

    [C] approval

    [D] indifference


    正确答案:C
    60. [C] 意为;赞同。
       这是一篇新闻体文章, 在新闻体文章中,写作者往往通过引用相关者的观点来结束讨论,并将自己的态度通过引用间接地表述出来。本文以尼克森的话结束了对安乐死的讨论,而尼克森是安乐死的支持者。另外,文章的大部分文字陈述了对安乐死法案的褒扬态度,而反对态度却一带而过。从这两方面来看,作者对安乐死持赞同态度。
       A意为:反对。
       B 意为:怀疑。
       D 意为:不关心。

  • 第17题:

    What is the author's attitude towards the old mission of assessment?

    A.Supportive.
    B.Indifferent.
    C.Negative.
    D.Neutral.

    答案:C
    解析:
    态度题。作者在第二、三段分别阐述了学校的评估对于学习好的学生和学习不好的学生的情感效应,即学习好的学生越来越积极,学习不好的学生越来越消极。第四段提到即使学生成绩不好甚至辍学,这也被认为是学生自己的问题,而不是学校或教师的责任。作者的观点是学校不该让学生越来越消极。通过整篇的用词诸如最后一段“the downside victims"等可知,作者对于学校旧的评估工作是持消极态度的。故本题选C。

  • 第18题:


    What is the author’s attitude towards“seeing is believing”?( )

    A.Positive
    B.Dangerous
    C.Negative
    D.Useful

    答案:C
    解析:

  • 第19题:

    单选题
    According to the passage, what’s Tom Maniatis’s attitude towards the second study?
    A

    Doubting.

    B

    Supportive.

    C

    Negative.

    D

    Neutral.


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    根据文章第六段第一句Tom Maniatis, a molecular biologist at Harvard University praises the study but remains skeptical about any drug that would inhibit IKK∈,我们可以了解到Tom Maniatis表扬了这次试验,但是skeptical表示但仍有怀疑。

  • 第20题:

    单选题
    The author’s attitude towards the judge’s ruling could be described as _____.
    A

    doubtful

    B

    critical

    C

    cautious

    D

    supportive


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    态度题。全文充满了对孩子的同情,对法官的支持,作者在第二段评论这个判决时的末句说道,那是一个重要的成就(或进步),只是来得太迟了。作者这是在赞扬法院的判决,故D为答案。

  • 第21题:

    单选题
    In the passage the author's attitude towards mixed-ability teaching is_______.
    A

    critical

    B

    questioning

    C

    approving

    D

    objective


    正确答案: B
    解析:

  • 第22题:

    单选题
    We can conclude from the passage that the author’s attitude towards Brazil is ______.
    A

    with great respect

    B

    neutral and understanding

    C

    favorable with a bit contempt

    D

    critical


    正确答案: D
    解析:
    题目问的是:从文中可得作者对巴西的态度是怎样的?通读全文可知作者是从发达国家的角度来看巴西的,透露出赞许和一点轻蔑。故选C。

  • 第23题:

    单选题
    The designer of the Sydney Opera House was from _____.
    A

    America

    B

    Australia

    C

    England

    D

    Denmark


    正确答案: B
    解析:
    由短文第三句中“by a famous Danish architect, Utzon”可知,悉尼歌剧院的设计师是丹麦人。故选项D正确。