hard, even to the point of our own personal suffering, in order to gain more meaning.
The point is that these seemingly odd and irrational (不合理的) motivations get us to do things that are complex, difficult and unpleasant. But they go beyond helping people in need. They motivate us in every aspect of our lives — whether in our personal relationships, in our individual pursuits or in the workplace.
61. According to the author, which of the following about motivation is true? A. Motivation is simply driven by external rewards.
B. Motivation is largely determined by social responsibilities. C. Motivation enables us to gain more financial returns. D. Motivation drives us to struggle for achievements.
62. According to the research, which of the practices gives us a sense of meaning? A. Reading a classic novel in the leisure time. B. Enjoying sunshine and comfort on the beach. C. Accompanying terminal patients in hospital. D. Listening to popular music in the sitting room.
63. The example of people’s voluntary work in Para. 4 mainly indicates that ______. A. experiencing personal suffering is a necessary part of our growth B. voluntary work serves the purpose of adding happiness to our lives C. it’s our duty to help people in need to get out of their sufferings
D. life’s great rewards come from our experience of tough circumstances 64. What can we infer from the passage?
A. People should make sacrifices for social benefits due to their short lifespan. B. The value and impact of motivation goes beyond our social circle and existence. C. Helping people in need is the most important goal of a human being nowadays. D. Superficially happy people usually put others first rather than focus on themselves.
D
Michael Herr, who has died aged 76, was the author of Dispatches (1977), the best book about the Vietnam war. Herr also made vital contributions to two of the best films on the war, Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.
It took Herr eight years to write Dispatches, in part because he went home from Saigon with a bad case of stress disorder. He had gone to Vietnam as a correspondent for Esquire magazine. An American general asked him whether he was there to write about military fashion, and another whether he was there to write humour. No, he told them. He wrote little for Esquire, but took advantage of the US government’s decision to allow correspondents extraordinary access to go to war with the soldiers. He shared their discomforts and their fears, witnessed their death and recorded their language.
His own language, a stream of consciousness pulsing with energy, but masterfully controlled, captured the fear and the horror, but also the excitement, of the war in the jungle and paddy fields. “So much beauty”, he recalled, “and so much pleasure”. He recorded with a connoisseur’s expertise (行家专长) such details as the many ways in which soldiers would wish each other good luck, and the degrees of madness that were considered acceptable.
He identified with the young soldiers and learned in the first few days that you could not affect neutrality (中立). “If you are neutral, you don’t get it,” said he. He generally did not carry a weapon, though on occasion he did fire at Vietnamese in emergencies. The young soldiers, he said, “are my
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The power of the book, perhaps, comes from Herr’s insistence on describing the war, or more precisely his own responses to it, rather than protesting (抗议) against it. It also comes from the ceaseless accompaniment of two elements, drugs and music — more particularly rock music, and especially the music of Jimi Hendrix. Herr himself spent drug-fuelled weekends in a flat in Saigon, staring at an ancient French map of Indochina, and he never caught a helicopter without a Hendrix record.
He met soldiers with a left pocket full of Dexedrine, the “upper” officially administered by the army to get them into battle, and a right pocket full of “downers” to get them through it. Dispatches did not come out until 1977, when the country was beginning to have its mind on other problems, but it did more, perhaps, than any other book to freeze an image of despair and a sense of waste about the war, rather as the trench poets of 1914 —1918 did in Britain.
Herr also made vital contributions to two of the most influential Vietnam films. He wrote Martin Sheen’s voiceover for Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and later wrote the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. His work, in the book and the two films, has been seen as part of the process whereby the US came to see itself and its history no longer merely through traditional literature, but in sounds and images, in ways that prefigured (预示) the internet.
In 1980 Herr moved to London, where he stayed until he moved back to the US in 1991. It was there that he met Stanley Kubrick, who became a close friend, though Herr warned against doing business with him. Herr wrote Kubrick’s biography, but he wrote surprisingly little else after Dispatches.
65. Why did Michael Herr go to Vietnam during the war years?
A. To join the soldiers in military actions. B. To report military actions and advances. C. To give an authentic account of the war. D. To write about military fashion and humour. 66. What can we infer from Michael Herr’s statement underlined in Paragraph 4? A. It was impossible to remain neutral during the war. B. It was unnecessary to show pity for the war victims. C. Neutrality is a means to keep you safe during the war. D. Neutrality can help the civilians free from sufferings. 67. Which of the following about Dispatches is true?
A. It fully describes Herr’s protest against the war.B. Its language is casually selected and organized. C. Music and drugs give the author inspiration. D. It truly reflects Herr’s responses to the war. 68. US soldiers brought drugs with them during the war most probably because ______. A. they were addicted to drugs B. they suffered stress disorder
C. they used them to cure the wounds D. they exchanged them for music records 69. Which of the following can best describe Herr’s attitude towards the war? A. Supportive. B. Uninterested. C. Disapproving. D. Neutral. 70. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?
A. Herr’s work offered Americans more ways to know themselves. B. Herr stopped writing after the book Dispatches was published. C. Herr rejected his friend’s request to write a biography for him. D. Herr’s work played a positive role in the birth of the Internet.
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