GRE新阅读题一个迷惑选项分析

发布于 2021-05-09 09:54 ，所属分类：GRE英语考试学习资料

最近在整理新题，修正了一个之前题目的答案，思路供参考。

At first glance, the place of Henry James among Modernist writers remains somewhat problematic. His dozen or more novels and scores of short stories obey the classic rules. Unlike Modernist novels, whose focus on characters' inner lives provoked critics' complaints that "nothing happens, "James's plots move forward at a relentless pace, with denouements occurring where convention has put them, at the end. Their dialogue, if at times high-flown, is naturalistic; their author appears as an all-knowing presence. Despite these literary orthodoxies, though, James's works, especially his late novels, show something amazingly new and unexpected. His explorations of consciousness shy at no complexity and lend his otherwise conventional novels the focus on interiority that characterizes the Modernist project in fiction.

不定项选择

2. It can be inferred that the author of the passage would agree with which of the following claims about James's fiction?
A. …
B. It shares with modernist novels an emphasis on interiority but diverges from them by upending conventional narrative structures.
C. …

题目问作者同意关于詹姆斯小说的什么看法。B选项前半部分说詹姆斯小说跟现代派小说共同强调了内在性，这部分对应though转折之后说的跟现代派共同点，尤其是最后一句lend his otherwise conventional novels the focus on interiority that characterizes the Modernist project in fiction给到了他在其他方面比较传统的小说一种对内在性的，这也是现代派的特征。B选项后半部分有问题，要注意upend这个词是推翻的意思，后半部分就是说詹姆斯的小说不同于现代派小说在于他推翻了传统叙事结构。原文前面恰恰是说詹姆斯的小说obey rules…denouements occurring where convention has put them在叙事结构方面是遵循传统的，所以upending说反了。如果是upholding维持这个选项就对了。

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