第1页共67页编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第1页共67页TextbookIntensiveEnglishReadingCompiledbyz.w.z.forCandidatesApplyingforDoctor’sDegreeintheArtAcademyofChina第2页共67页第1页共67页编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第2页共67页September1,2010ContentsUnit1Text1TheParadoxofKnowledge----------------Page3Text2TyrannyoftheUrgent----------------------Page8第3页共67页第2页共67页编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第3页共67页Unit2Text1TheVirtuesofAmbition--------------------Page16Text2ThreeDaystoSee----------------------------Page21Unit3Text1TheWestUnique,NotUniversal--------Page24Text2WhatIHaveLivedFor--------------------Page28Unit4Text1PhilosophyandArt----------------------------Page30Text2Chopin—TheBeautifulSoulofMusic----Page39ArtTheory------------------------------------------------Page41TranslationExercises-----------------------------------Page46Songs-------------------------------------------------------Page48第4页共67页第3页共67页编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第4页共67页Unit1Text1TheParadoxofKnowledgeSkepticalInquirer,Sept-Oct,1995byLeeLoevingerMaintheme:Asknowledgeaboutnatureexpands,sodoesignorance,andignorancemayincreasemorethanitsrelatedknowledge.1.Thegreatestachievementofhumankindinitslongevolutionfromancienthominoidancestorstoitspresentstatusistheacquisitionandaccumulationofavastbodyofknowledgeaboutitself,theworld,andtheuniverse.Theproductsofthisknowledgeareallthosethingsthat,intheaggregate,wecall"civilization,"includinglanguage,science,literature,art,allthephysicalmechanisms,instruments,andstructuresweuse,andthephysicalinfrastructuresonwhichsocietyrelies.Mostofusassumethatinmodernsocietyknowledgeofallkindsiscontinuallyincreasingandtheaggregationofnewinformationintothecorpusofoursocialorcollectiveknowledgeissteadilyreducingtheareaofignoranceaboutourselves,theworld,andtheuniverse.Butcontinuingremindersofthenumerousareasofourpresentignoranceinviteacriticalanalysisofthisassumption.2.Inthepopularview,intellectualevolutionissimilarto,althoughmuchmorerapidthan,somaticevolution.Biologicalevolutionisoftendescribedbythestatementthat"ontogenyrecapitulatesphylogeny"--meaningthattheindividualembryo,initsdevelopmentfromafertilizedovumintoahumanbaby,passesthroughsuccessivestagesinwhichitresemblesancestralformsofthehumanspecies.Thepopularviewisthathumankindhasprogressedfromastateofinnocentignorance,comparabletothatofaninfant,andgraduallyhasacquiredmoreandmoreknowledge,muchasachildlearnsinpassingthroughtheseveralgradesoftheeducationalsystem.Implicitinthisviewisanassumptionthatphylogenyresemblesontogeny,sothattherewillultimatelybeastagein第5页共67页第4页共67页编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第5页共67页whichtheaccumulationofknowledgeisessentiallycomplete,atleastinspecificfields,asifsocietyhadgraduatedwithalltheadvanceddegreesthatsignifymasteryofimportantsubjects.3.Suchviewshave,infact,beenexpressedbysomeeminentscientists.In1894thegreatAmericanphysicistAlbertMichelsonsaidinatalkattheUniversityofChicago:WhileitisneversafetoaffirmthatthefutureofPhysicalSciencehasnomarvelsinstoreevenmoreastonishingthanthoseofthepast,itseemsprobablethatmostofthegrandunderlyingprincipleshavebeenfirmlyestablishedandthatfurtheradvancesaretobesoughtchieflyintherigorousap...
