No matter how long your life, you will, at best, be able to read only a few books of all that have been written, and the few you do read should include the best. You can rejoice in the fact that the number of such is relatively small.
________________ Yet there is a surprising uniformity in the lists which represent the best choices of any period. In every age, the list makers include both ancient and modern books in their selections, and they always wonder whether the moderns are up to the great books of the past.
What are the signs by which we may recognize a great book? The four I will mention may not be all they are, but they are the ones I’ve found most useful in explaining my choices over the years.
Great books are probably the most widely read. They are not best sellers for a year or two. They are enduring best sellers. GONE WITH THE WIND has had relatively few readers compared to the plays of Shakespeare or DON QUIXOTE. It would be reasonable to estimate that Homer’s Iliad（伊麗亞特）has been read by at least 25,000,000 people in the last 3000 years.
Great books are popular, not pedantic. They are not written by specialists about specialties for specialists. Whether they are philosophy or science, or history or poetry, they treat of human, not academic problems. They are written for men, not professors. To read a textbook for advanced students, you have to read an elementary textbook first. But the great books can be considered elementary in the sense that they treat the elements of any subject matter. They are not related to one another as a series of textbooks, graded in difficulty or in the technicality of the problems with which they deal.
Great books are always contemporary, the most readable and instructive.
Great books deal with the persistently unsolved problems of human life. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also. Great minds acknowledge mysteries honestly. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.
64．Which of the following can be put in the blank in the second paragraph?
A．Great books deal with the persistently unsolved problems of human life.
B．It is to be expected that the selections will change with the times
C．The listing of the best books is as old as reading and writing.
D．The fundamental human problems remain the same in all ages.
65．According to the author, Gone With The Wind is ________.
A．a(chǎn) best seller                                               
B．disgusted by readers who like Shakespeare
C．read more often than Don Quixote        
D．a(chǎn) great book
66．In the passage “pedantic” means ________.
A．showing the feelings, esp, those of kindness, which people are supposed to have
B．serving as practical examples
C．being elementary
D．paying too much attention to details in books
67．The best title for this passage is ________.
A．Great Books in Your Life       B．Great Books in Your Speciality
C．How to Find a Great Book?    D．What Is a Great Book?
64-67 BADD
本文是一篇關于名著的說明文。第一、二段指出人們一生要讀很多書，但名著卻很少，而且古典名著一直被大家公認，從而引出本文討論的話題：評定名著的標準是什么？文章接下來的部分就此進行了詳細分析和說明。
64．主旨大意題。此處要注意下文的Yet，表一個轉折關系。下文說但是有一些作品可以作為任何時代的必讀書目�？膳袛嗫瞻滋幈磉_的意思應是不同時代有不同的選讀書。B符合此意。其他不合題意。本句意思是：人們預料，隨著時代的變遷，選擇書籍的方向會有所改變。
65．觀點態(tài)度題。文中第四段主要說明名著的一個特點就是讀者多，不是一兩年的暢銷書，而《飄》不如莎士比亞戲劇或《堂吉珂德》的讀者多，說明讀者認為《飄》不是名著，只是一本暢銷書。所以，選A正確。本題最難，易誤選D
66．語義理解題。由文中第五段第一句可判斷pedantic一詞與popular意思相反，而第五段第二句進一步解釋了該詞的意思，可判斷選項D正確。本題易誤選B
67．主旨大意題。A、B說的是在日常生活和專業(yè)領域的名著，文章根本沒有做這樣的分類；文中第三段就談到評定名著的四個標準，所以D正確。
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