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Passage 5
This calming down is perhaps the main reason why I keep a diary. It is incredible how the written sentence can calm and tame a man. The sentence is always something different from the man writing it. It stands before him as something alien, a sudden solid wall which cannot be leaped over. One might walk around it, but before one even arrives on the other side, there is a new wall at a sharp angle to the first, a new sentence, no less alien, on less solid or high, and likewise beckoning one to walk around it. Gradually, a labyrinth arises, in which the builder just barely knows his way. He is calmed by it’s tangled paths.
The people closest to a writer could not stand hearing everything that has excited him. Excitement is catching, and others hopefully have their own lives, which cannot consist only of someone else’s excitement, otherwise they would suffocate. Then there are the things one cannot tell anybody, even the closest people, because one is too ashamed. It is not good if they are not articulated at all: it is not good if they pass into oblivion. The mechanisms one uses to make life easy are far too well developed. First a man says, somewhat timidly “I really couldn’t help it”. And then, in the twinkling of an eye, the matter is forgotten. To escape this unworthiness, one ought to write the thing down, and then much later, perhaps years later, when self-complacence is dripping out of all one’s pores, when one least expects it, one is suddenly, and to one’s horror, confronted with it. “I was capable of that, I did that”.
The man who truly wants to know everything will learn best from his own example. But he must not spare himself, he must treat himself as though he was someone else, not less but more harshly.
The bleakness of many diaries is due to the total lace of anything to be calmed down. One can hardly believe it, but some people are satisfied with everything around them, even with a world about to collapse. Others, despite all vicissitudes, are satisfied with themselves.
Thus, as we can see, calm as a function of diary is no great shakes. It is a calming of the moment, of momentary weakness, which clears the day for work, and nothing more. In the long run, a diary had the reverse effect, it does not permit one to go to sleep, it interferes with the natural process of transfiguring a past which is left to itself, it keeps one awake and mordant.
46. In this analogy, the author compares sentences to __________.
A. the man who wrote the sentences B. words and straight paths
C. a builder’s labyrinth D. mechanisms used to make life easy
47. We can infer that one virtue of a diary is its ability to __________.
A. inject humility at times of great self-confidence
B. provide a fascinating maze of words
C. record all that happens to the writer
D. record the writer’s satisfaction with life
48. According to the passage, the man who wants to learn __________.
A. will learn from his own example
B. will do so from his diary
C. will use his diary as a source of calm
D. will treat himself subjectively
49. We can conclude that the author believes one’s sins .
A. must be expiated B. need to be revealed somewhere
C. need open atonement D. suffer in oblivion
50. For the author, a primary effect of any diary is that it __________.
A. allows man to become calm and relaxed
B. serves as atonement for the past
C. acts as a guide for future entries
D. ensures alertness and sensitivity to the past
【答案解析】
46. C 文中第一段最后一句提到“Gradually, a labyrinth arises……”，即作者把句子比喻不可越过的墙，逐渐地墙变成了迷宫，C是正确答案。
47. A 文章最后一段 “…it keeps one awake and mordant”。而选项A 的意思是：在充满自信的时候使你谦虚（inject humility at times of great self-confidence），与其意思最接近，应选A。
48. A 文章第三段提到“The man who truly wants to know everything will learn best from his own example”，即真正想洞悉一切的人会从自己身上学到很多，A项与原文表述一致。
49. B 文章第二段第三句先是提到Then there are the things one cannot tell anybody, even the closest people, because one is too ashamed，即有些事因太羞愧而不能告诉别人，也就是题干中的sins，随后就指出It is not good if they are not articulated at all: it is not good if they pass into oblivion.，即这些信息需要表达出来，B项“需要在某些地方揭示出来”，符合句意。
50. D 文章最后一段提到calm as a function of diary is no great shakes，即使人平静下来只是日记的功效之一，这一功效是短暂的，微小的。随后指出In the long run, a diary had the reverse effect, it does not permit one to go to sleep, it interferes with the natural process of transfiguring a past which is left to itself, it keeps one awake and mordant，即日记的**作用是使人认识你自己，D项为正确答案。
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