Certainly their deions of battles are confused.  But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line descries a fight between a Turk and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river-and then find that the line consists of the noise of their falling and the weights of the officers,“Pluff! Pluff! A hundred and eightyfive kilograms.”
    This,though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futurist poetry,can hardly be classed as Literature. All the same,no thinking man can refuse to accept their first proposition: that a great change in our emotional life calls for a change of expression. The whole question is really this: h***e we essentially changed? (2000年考题)
【综合分析】第一句提出作者的文学评论观。第一段第二句表达了作者对未来派诗歌的看法，这种看法在最后一段第一句得到照应，仅仅抓住这两句，我们对作者的观点和意图就能一目了然。第二段第一句的前半句告诉我们：本段谈的是未来派诗人的创作理念，本段第三句对这个理念进行了概括性说明。第四段举例说明了他们的创作特点。
相应地，下列四个题针对这些方面——作者的文学评论观、对未来派诗歌的看法、未来派诗歌的创作理念——的重要信息展开提问。
59. This passage is mainly               .
［A］ a survey of new approaches to art
［B］ a review of Futurist poetry
［C］ about merits of the Futurist movement
［D］ about laws and requirements of literature
【分析】该题测试考生对文章的宏观把握。从文章第一段第二句——提出观点——和最后一段第一句——结论，不难看出，本文是对未来派诗歌的评论，因此，［B］是正确答案。
60. When a novel literary idea appears,people should try to               .
［A］ determine its purposes
［B］ ignore its flaws
［C］ follow the new fashions
［D］ accept the principles
【分析】该题的测试重点是作者的文学评论观。根据文章第一句，作者认为，每当一个新艺术运动达到一定流行程度时，最好先找出其倡导者的目的，因为无论其原则在今天看来可能是多么不着边际、多么荒谬，但是数年后它也许会被看做是正常的东西。因此，［A］是正确答案，意为：确定其目的。
61. Futurists claim that we must               .
［A］ increase the production of literature
［B］ use poetry to relieve modern stress
［C］ develop new modes of expression
［D］ ***oid using adjectives and verbs
【分析】该题提问的是未来派诗歌的创作理念，从文章第二段的主题来看，［C］是正确答案，意为：找出新的表达方式。
62. The author believes that Futurist poetry is               .
［A］ based on reasonable principles
［B］ new and acceptable to ordinary people
［C］ indicative of a basic change in human nature
［D］ more of a transient phenomenon than literature
【分析】本题的测试重点是作者对未来派诗歌的看法，作者对未来派诗歌进行了严厉的批评。在四个选择项中，只有［D］含有批评意味，意为：与其说是文学，不如说是一种稍纵即逝的现象。