Passage Four
Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for ex- pressing ioy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’ s flowers of evil
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness Advertising. The
A. Poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music.
B. Art grow out of both positive and negative feeling.
C. Poets today are less skeptical of happiness.
D. Artist have changed their focus of interest.
| There are a great many careers in which
the increasing emphasis is on specialization. You find these careers in
engineering, in production, in statistical work, and in teaching. But there is
an increasing demand for people who are able to take in a great area at a
glance, people who perhaps do not know too much about any one field. There
is, in other words, a demand for people who are capable of seeing the forest
rather than the trees, of making general judgment. We can call these people
"generalists". And these "generalists" are particularly needed for
positions in administration, where it is their job to see that other people do
the work, where they have to plan for other people, to organize other people’s
work, to begin it and judge it. The specialist understands one field, his concern is with technique and tools. He is a "tr A. people who have both technical knowedge and administrative ability B. people who can plan, organize and judge other people’s work C. generalists whose educational background is either technical or professional D. specialists who provide administrative guidance to others [单项选择]Passage Two
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