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　　四、閱讀理解

　　Some people hate everything that is modern. They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for perfection in everything， and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways. It is， of course， true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting， the artist‘s failure concerns himself alone， but if it is a building， his failure concerns others too， because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does sometimes happen， but it is completely untrue to say， as some people do， that modern architecture is nothing.

　　We can‘t judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time， even though we admire the ancient buildings. Technologically， the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works， but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials， he will never be content to imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.

　　34. Technologically， the modern buildings are more advanced. The sentence means _____.

　　A.the ancient architects had no technology

　　B.the modern architects use more advanced technology

　　C.the modern buildings are advanced because they are completely different from the ancient buildings

　　D.the modern buildings are more beautiful

　　35. Some people hate everything that is modern because _______.

　　A. they are aged

　　B. they find it hard to accept modern things

　　C. they take their standards of perfection from the Greek

　　D. they look at things by the standards of the past

　　36. The writer thinks the failure of a building _______.

　　A. means nothing

　　B. concerns others

　　C. concerns only the artist

　　D. concerns all the people in the world

　　37. The writer of the passage thinks that ________.

　　A.it is true to say artists fail in their work

　　B.it is untrue to say artists fail in their work

　　C.it is true to say some artists fail in their work

　　D.it is true to say only painters fail in their work

　　38. The writer thinks that _________.

　　A.we can‘t judge buildings by the ancient standards

　　B.we can‘t judge all the buildings by the ancient standards

　　C.we can‘t judge all the modern buildings by the ancient standards

　　D.we can‘t judge modern buildings

　　參考答案：

　　34.B 35.D 36.B 37.C 38.C

　　參考譯文：

　　有些人討厭一切現代的東西。他們無法想象任何人都能真正喜歡現代音樂;他們發現很難接受服裝的新時尚;他們認為所有現代繪畫都是丑陋的，而且他們很少對世界各地正在建造的新建筑有好感。這樣的人在任何事情上都追求完美，他們從過去開始追求完美。他們通常對任何敢于嘗試新事物或以材料原始方式表達自己或年齡的人不耐煩。當然，許多藝術家在工作中沒有成功，反而創作出只能被視為失敗的作品。如果藝術作品是一幅畫，藝術家的失敗只涉及他自己，但如果它是一座建筑，他的失敗也與他人有關，因為它可能破壞整個地方的美。這種情況有時會發生，但正如有些人所說的那樣，現代建筑一文不值是完全不真實的。

　　我們不能按古代的標準來評判每一座現代建筑，即使我們欣賞古建筑。從技術上講，現代建筑更先進?，F代建筑師知道他應該從古代的作品中學習，但是他擁有更多的知識和材料，他永遠不會滿足于模仿過去。他太驕傲了，不能那樣做。