One?of?the?novels?by?the?talented?Paul?Bowles,?Let?It?Come?Down,?is?full?of?motion,?full?of?sensational?depravities,?and?is?a?crashing?bore.?The?book?recognizes?no?evil,?and?is?coldly?indifferent?to?the?moral?behavior?of?its?characters.?It?is?a?long?shrug.?Such?a?view?of?life?is?non-?dramatic?and?negates?the?vital?essence?of?drama.
41.?In?our?age,?according?to?the?author,?a?standpoint?often?taken?in?the?area?of?ethics?is?the?_____.
?????A)?relativistic?view?of?morals??????????????B)?greater?concern?with?religion
?????C)?emphasis?on?evil?????????????????????D)?greater?concern?with?universals
42.?The?author?believes?that?in?great?literature,?as?in?life,?good?and?evil?are?____
?????A)?relative???????????????????????????B)?unimportant
?????C)?constantly?in?conflict????????????????D)?dramatically?neutralized
43.?When?the?author?uses?the?expression?"it?is?a?long?shrug"?in?referring?to?Bowles’s?book,?he
?????is?commenting?on?the?___
?????A)?length?of?the?novel
?????B)?indifference?to?the?moral?behavior?of?the?characters
?????C)?monotony?of?the?story
?????D)?sensational?depravities?of?the?book
44.?In?the?opinion?of?the?author,?Cry,?The?Beloved?Country?is?a?great?and?dramatic?novel?be-
??????cause?of?Paton’s?____.
??????A)?insight?into?human?behavior
??????B)?behavioristic?beliefs
??????C)?treatment?of?good?and?evil?as?abstractions
??????D)?willingness?to?make?moral?judgments
?45.?The?word?"shun"?in?the?1st?sentence?in?paragraph?3?is?closest?in?meaning?to?______.
??????A)?shut?????B)?attend?????C)?show?????D)?avoid
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Passage?10
???????African-American?filmmakers?should?be?in?an?enviable?position,?for?since?the?early?1990s
?there?has?been?a?steady?wave?of?low?budget?black?films?which?have?turned?a?solid?profit?due?to
?a?very?strong?response?in?the?African-American?community?and?a?larger?crossover?audience?than
?anticipated.?Any?rational?business?manager?would?now?identify?this?sector?as?a?prime?candidate
?for?expansion,?but?if?the?films?have?done?so?well?with?limited?production?and?marketing?costs,
?why?have?they?not?received?full?scale?support7
???????Many?analysts?feel?the?business?is?engulfed?in?a?miasma?of?self-serving?and?self-fulfilling??myths?based?on?the?unspoken?assumption?that?Mfrican-American?films?can?never?be?vehicles?of???prestige,?glamour,?or?celebrity.?The?relationship?players?have?convinced?themselves?that?black???films?can?do?only?a?limited?domestic?business?under?any?circumstance?and?have?virtually?no?for-???eign?box?office?potential.?As?executives?who?now?control?the?film?industry?grew?up?in?those?de-??cades?when?there?were?few?black?images?on?the?screen?and?those?that?did?exist?were?produced?by??film-makers?with?limited?knowledge?of?the?black?community,?it?is?little?wonder?that?they?avoid??ideological?issues,?and?seek?to?continue?making?films?that?they?are?comfortable?with?by?avoiding??they?negative?imagery?of?films?they?would?prefer?to?eschew?entirely.