英语六级（二）：段落匹配答案及解析_大学英语阅读

英语六级（二）：段落匹配答案及解析

　　C)Lucky for us. Over the next two years they made their most groundbreaking work, turning the recording studio into a magical instrument of its own. Precisely because they were working with old-fashioned machines, George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every ounce of their creativity to solve the problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney. Songs like Tomorrow Never Knows , Strawberry Fields Forever , and A Day in the Life featured revolutionary sound effects that dazzled and mystified Martin s American counterparts.

　　D)Sometimes it s only when a difficulty is removed that we realise what it was doing for us. For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren. During the 1980s he noticed an increasing number of long poems among the submissions, with some running to 70 or 80 pages. These poems were verbally inventive and fluent, but also strangely boring . After making inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computers, then just finding their way into British homes.

　　E)You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an advantage. But there may be a cost to such facility. In an interview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldn t write at all . As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do its bidding, the tension between the two results in a more compressed, psychologically denser expression. Remove that resistance and you are more likely to produce a 70-page ramble .