首页
登录
职称英语
How does literary style evolve? Surprisingly,(1)_____ lie in words with seem
How does literary style evolve? Surprisingly,(1)_____ lie in words with seem
游客
2024-10-06
28
管理
问题
How does literary style evolve? Surprisingly,(1)_____ lie in words with seemingly little meaning, such as "to" and "that".
By analysing(2)_____ writers use such "content-free" words, Daniel Rockmore and colleagues at Dartmouth College in Hanover were able to conduct the first, large-scale style analysis of literature.
Content-free words are(3)_____ of writing style, Rockmore says. While two authors might use the(4)_____ content words to describe a similar event, they will use content-free words to(5)_____ their content words in a different way.
Using the Project Gutenberg digital library, Rockmore’s team analysed 7733 English language works written since 1550,(6)_____ how often and in what(7)_____ content-free words appeared. As you might expect, they found that writers were(8)_____ influenced by their predecessors.
They also found that as the number of literature works grew, the influence of older works (9)_____. Authors in the(10)_____ periods wrote in a very similar way to one another, the researchers found, probably because they all read the same(11)_____ body of literature. But approaching the modern era,(12)_____ more people were writing and more works were(13)_____ from many eras and numerous styles, authors’ styles were still very similar to those of their(14)_____ contemporaries. "It’s as if they find dialects in time," says Alex Bentley. " Content is what makes us(15)______, but content-free words put us in different(16)_____."
(17)_____ writers should be most influenced by their contemporaries(18)_____ the great works of the past is interesting, Rockmore says, because it challenges the(19)_____ of "classic" literature. When it comes to style(20)______, perhaps we aren’t so strongly influenced by the classics after all. [br] (14)
选项
A、famous
B、international
C、young
D、immediate
答案
D
解析
前面说早期作者的写作风格,此处说接近现代作家的写作风格,选项中只有immediate“(时间上)最接近的”能修饰contemporaries。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3789945.html
相关试题推荐
Justwhenmostliteraryfictionreadslikeanendlessmeditationonhowmany
1 Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhos
1 Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhos
1 Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhos
1 Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhos
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
随机试题
Althoughwedecoratedtheroomonlysixmonthsago,thepaintontheceilingis
Morethanonevariant,realizingsomemorphemesaccordingtothepositioninaw
(1)InthecaseofArchimedes,althoughhemademanywonderfuldiscoveriesof
[audioFiles]audio_eufm_j01_267(200910)[/audioFiles]A、Nearthestation.B、Inthe
每一位管理者通常都要接受上级、下级、同级员工甚至客户对自己作出的评价的评价工具是
对于函转和要回报的信访信件,转交时要()。A.定期催办 B.立案登记 C.
不符合蕈样霉菌病的描述是()A.原发于皮肤 B.不累及内脏 C.形成红斑
男孩,1岁,反复腹泻半年入院。体检:体重7kg,腹部皮下脂肪厚度0.3cm,皮肤
道德评价能力发展的一般过程是()。A.从客观效果到内在动机 B.从他人到自己
薪酬对企业的功能表现在()。A.协调企业内部关系和塑造企业文化的功能 B.改
最新回复
(
0
)