"Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk. The poles are clear enough, but the middle tends to blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930’s for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music--folk themes--in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different one: he took a popular genre-bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of nineteenth-century opera) and, without altering its fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. This remains one of the greatest achievements in music, and one that cannot be fully appreciated without recognizing the essential trashiness of the genre.
As an example of such a transmutatio A. the political messages exposed. B. the universal recognition of high art. C. the intended changes in popular art. D. heroes’ and heroines’ mental states.
Proposal for Free Bus Transportation from Airport In recent
years, we have observed an increase in the number of students arriving both
domestically and overseas. Taxies is the only means of transportation students
can use to travel between the airport and the University, if they don’t have
private vehicles, and the cost of taking a taxi is quite expensive. Therefore,
it is the time that the University should consider to offer students free
airport bus from the bus terminal on campus during the school breaks. Once this
idea is put into effect, students would find it convenient and cost-effective to
travel to the airport. Now hear a conversation about the same
topic. The man expresses his opinion of the school policy on
the free airport bus service. State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives
for holding that opinion.
[单项选择]一位医生给一组等候手术的前列腺肿瘤患者服用他从西红柿中提取的番茄红素制成的胶囊，每天两次，每次15毫克。3周后发现这组病人的肿瘤明显缩小，有的几乎消除。医生由此推测：番茄红素有缩小前列腺肿瘤的功效。 以下哪项如果为真，最能支持医生的结论 A. 服用番茄红素的前列腺肿瘤患者的年龄在45～65岁之间。 B. 服用番茄红素的前列腺肿瘤患者中有少数人的病情相当严重。 C. 还有一组相似的等候手术的前列腺肿瘤患者，没有服用番茄红素胶囊，他们的肿瘤没有缩小。 D. 番茄红素不仅存在于西红柿中，也存在于西瓜、葡萄等水果中。
