Many literary detectives have pored over a great puzzle concerning the writer Marcel Proust: what happened in 1909? How did Contre Saint-Beuve essay attacking the methods of the critic Saint-Beuve, turn into the start of the novel Remembrance of Things Past? A recently published letter from Proust to the editor Vallette confirms that Fallois, the editor of the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve, made an essentially correct guess about the relationship of the essay to the novel. Fallois proposed that Proust had tried to begin a novel in 1908, abandoned it for what was to be a long demonstration of Saint-Beuve’s blindness to the real nature of great writing, found the essay giving rise to personal memories and fictional developments, and allowed these to take over in a steadily developing novel.
Draft passages in Proust’s 1909 notebooks indicate that the transition from essay to novel began in Contre Saint-Bcuve, when Proust introduced several examples to show the powerful influence that involuntary memory exerts over the creative imagination. In effect, in trying to demonstrate that the imagination is more profound and less submissive to the intellect than Saint-Beuve assumed, Proust elicited vital memories of his own and, finding subtle connections between them, began to amass the material for Remembrance. By August, Proust was writing to Vallettee, informing him of his intention to develop the material as a novel. Maurice Bardeche, in Marcel Proust, Romancier, has shown the importance in the drafts of Remembrance of spontaneous and apparently random associations of Proust’s subconscious. As incidents and reflections occurred to Proust, he continually inserted new passages altering and expanding his narrative. But he found it difficult to control the drift of his inspiration. The very richness and complexity of the meaningful relationships that kept presenting and rearranging themselves on all levels, from abstract intelligence to profound dreamy feelings, made it difficult for Proust to set them out coherently. The beginning of control came when he saw how to connect the beginning and the end of his novel.
Intrigued by Proust’s claim that he had “begun and finished” Remembrance at the same time, Henry Bonnet discovered that parts of Remembrances last book were actually started in 1909. Already in that year, Proust had drafted descriptions of his novel’s characters in their old age that would appear in the final book of Remembrance, where the permanence of art is set against the ravages of time. The letter to Vallette, drafts of the essay and novel, and bonnet’s researchers establish in broad outline the process by which Proust generated his novel out of the ruins of his essay. But those of us who hoped, with Kolb, that Kolb’s newly published complete edition of Proust’s correspondence for 1909 would document the process in greater detail are disappointed. For until Proust was confident that he was at last in sight of a viable structure for Remembrance, he told few correspondents that he was producing anything more ambitious than Contre Saint-Beuve.
1.The passage is primarily concerned with（ ）.
2.Which of the following best states the author’s attitude toward the information that scholars have gathered about Proust’s writting in 1909?
3.The author of the passage implies that which of the following would be the LEAST useful source of information about Proust’s transition from working on Contre Saint-Beuve to having a viable structure for Remembrance of Thing Past?
4.The passage offers information to answer which of the following questions?
5.Which of the following best describes the relationship between Contre Saint-Beuve and Remembrance of Things Past as it is explained in the passage?
问题1选项
A.the role of involuntary memory in Proust’s writing
B.evidence concerning the genesis of Proust’s novel Remembrance of Things Past
C.conflicting scholarly opinions about the value of studying the drafts of Things Past
D.Proust’s correspondence and what it reveals about Remembrance of Remembrance of Things Past
问题2选项
A.The author is disappointed that no new documents have come to light since Fallois’s speculations.
B.The author is dissatisfied because there are too many gaps and inconsistencies in the drafts.
C.The author is confident that Fallois’s 1954 guess has been proved largely correct, but regrets that still more detailed documentation concerning Proust’s transition from the essay to the novel has not emerged.
D.The author is satisfied that Fallois’s Judgment was largely correct, but feels that Proust’s early work in designing and writing the novel was probably far more deliberate that Fallois’s description of the process would suggest.
问题3选项
A.Fallois’s comments in the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve.
B.Proust’s 1909 notebooks, including the drafts of Remembrance of Thing.
C.Proust’s 1909 correspondence, excluding the letter to Vlallette.
D.Bonnet’s researches concerning Proust’s drafts of the final book of Remembrance of Things Past.
问题4选项
A.Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to abandon Contre Saint-Beuve?
B.Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to connect the beginning and the end of Remembrance of Things Past?
C.What specific criticisms of Saint-Beuve appear, in fictional form, in Remembrance of Things Past?
D.What is a theme concerning art that appears in the final book of Remembrance of Things Past?
问题5选项
A.Immediately after abandoning Contre Saint-Beuve, at Vallette’s suggestion, Proust started Remembrance as a fictional demonstration that Saint-Beuve was wrong about the imagination.
B.Immediately after abandoning Contre Saint-Beuve, at Vallette’s suggestion, Proust turned his attention to Remembrance, starting with incidents that had occurred to him while planning the essay.
C.Despondent that he could not find a coherent structure for Contre Saint- Beuve, an essayabout the role of memory in fiction, Proust began instead to write Remembrance, a novel devoted to important early memories.
D.While developing his argument about the imagination in Contre Saint-Beuve, Proust described and began to link together personal memories that became a foundation for Remembrance.
第1题:B
第2题:C
第3题:C
第4题:D
第5题:D
第1题:
【选项释义】
The passage is primarily concerned with ______. 这篇文章主要是______。
A. the role of involuntary memory in Proust’s writing A. 无意识记忆在普鲁斯特写作中的作用
B. evidence concerning the genesis of Proust’s novel Remembrance of Things Past B. 关于普鲁斯特小说《追忆似水年华》的起源的证据
C. conflicting scholarly opinions about the value of studying the drafts of Things Past C. 关于研究《追忆似水年华》草稿的价值，学者们的意见不一致
D. Proust’s correspondence and what it reveals about Remembrance of Remembrance of Things Past D. 普鲁斯特的书信以及它所揭示的《追忆似水年华》
【考查点】主旨大意题。
【解题思路】根据第一段第二句：How did Contre Saint-Beuve essay attacking the methods of the critic Saint-Beuve, turn into the start of the novel Remembrance of Things Past?（一篇抨击批评家圣伯夫批评方法的文章《驳圣伯夫》是如何成为小说《追忆似水年华》的起源的？），可知文章一开始提出了一个问题；结合该句后文：A recently published letter from Proust to the editor Vallette confirms that Fallois, the editor of the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve, made an essentially correct guess about the relationship of the essay to the novel（最近出版的一封普鲁斯特写给编辑瓦莱特的信证实，1954年版《驳圣伯夫》的编辑法卢瓦对这篇短文与小说之间的关系做出了基本正确的猜测），可知该句中的“小说”是指《追忆似水年华》，《驳圣伯夫》的编辑就这篇文章与《追忆似水年华》之间的关系做出了猜测，所以本文的重点是“普鲁斯特小说《追忆似水年华》的起源的证据”，因此正确答案为B选项。
【干扰项排除】
A选项“无意识记忆在普鲁斯特写作中的作用”，根据第二段第一句关键信息：when Proust introduced several examples to show the powerful influence that involuntary memory exerts over the creative imagination（当时普鲁斯特引入了几个例子来展示无意识记忆对创造性想象力的强大影响），可知该选项描述与原文不符，且非全文重点，属于曲解原文；
C选项“关于研究《追忆似水年华》草稿的价值，学者们的意见不一致”，原文没有提及，属于无中生有；
D选项“普鲁斯特的书信以及它所揭示的《追忆似水年华》”，根据最后一段关键信息：But those of us who hoped, with Kolb, that Kolb’s newly published complete edition of Proust’s correspondence for 1909 would document the process in greater detail are disappointed（但是，我们中那些和科尔布一样，希望科尔布新出版的1909年普鲁斯特书信全集能更详细地记录这一过程的人失望了），可知普鲁斯特书信没有详细记录《追忆似水年华》的创作过程，且非全文重点，属于曲解原文。
第2题:
【选项释义】
Which of the following best states the author’s attitude toward the information that scholars have gathered about Proust’s writing in 1909? 以下哪项最能说明作者对学者们收集的关于普鲁斯特1909年作品的信息的态度？
A. The author is disappointed that no new documents have come to light since Fallois’s speculations A. 作者感到失望的是，自法卢瓦的推测后没有新的文件出现
B. The author is dissatisfied because there are too many gaps and inconsistencies in the drafts B. 作者不满意，因为草稿中存在太多的空白和不一致之处
C. The author is confident that Fallois’s 1954 guess has been proved largely correct, but regrets that still more detailed documentation concerning Proust’s transition from the essay to the novel has not emerged C. 作者相信，法卢瓦1954年的猜测在很大程度上是正确的，但遗憾的是，关于普鲁斯特从散文到小说的转变的更详细的文献还没有出现
D. The author is satisfied that Fallois’s Judgment was largely correct, but feels that Proust’s early work in designing and writing the novel was probably far more deliberate that Fallois’s description of the process would suggest D. 作者对法卢瓦的判断基本正确感到满意，但认为普鲁斯特在设计和撰写小说的早期工作可能比法卢瓦对过程的描述要慎重得多
【考查点】判断推理题。
【解题思路】根据选项中的关键词Fallois、transition from the essay to the novel可以确定答案所在区域为第一、二段。根据第一段关键信息：Fallois, the editor of the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve, made an essentially correct guess about the relationship of the essay to the novel. Fallois proposed that Proust had tried to begin a novel in 1908, abandoned it for what was to be a long demonstration of Saint-Beuve’s blindness to the real nature of great writing, found the essay giving rise to personal memories and fictional developments, and allowed these to take over in a steadily developing novel（1954年版《驳圣伯夫》的编辑法卢瓦对这篇短文与小说之间的关系做出了基本正确的猜测。法卢瓦认为，普鲁斯特曾试图在1908年开始写一部小说，但后来放弃了，因为这是一篇很长的文章，证明圣伯夫对伟大作品真正本质的无知，他发现这篇文章引发了个人记忆和虚构的发展，最后让这些内容以一部稳定发展的小说形式取而代之），由此可知：法卢瓦的猜测是，普鲁斯特本打算写一本小说，但后来因为圣伯夫对伟大作品的无知，转而写了《驳圣伯夫》，而后又将其发展写成了一部小说，即《追忆似水年华》，而文章表明法卢瓦的猜测基本是正确的；结合第二段前两句：Draft passages in Proust’s 1909 notebooks indicate that the transition from essay to novel began in Contre Saint-Bcuve, when Proust introduced several examples to show the powerful influence that involuntary memory exerts over the creative imagination. In effect, in trying to demonstrate that the imagination is more profound and less submissive to the intellect than Saint-Beuve assumed, Proust elicited vital memories of his own and, finding subtle connections between them, began to amass the material for Remembrance（普鲁斯特1909年笔记中的草稿表明，从散文到小说的过渡始于《驳圣伯夫》，当时普鲁斯特引入了几个例子，以显示无意识记忆对创造性想象力的强大影响。实际上，为了证明想象力比圣伯夫假设的更深刻，更不屈从于智力，普鲁斯特激发了自己的重要记忆，并在它们之间找到了微妙的联系，开始为《追忆似水年华》积累素材），由此可知：普鲁斯特从散文到小说的过渡始于《驳圣伯夫》，能为这一点进行佐证的文献是“普鲁斯特1909年笔记中的草稿”，除此之外，文中没有出现其他文献。综上可知：法卢瓦1954年的猜测基本是正确的，但是没有关于普鲁斯特从散文到小说的转变的更详细的文献，所以正确答案为C选项。
【干扰项排除】A、B、D选项均属于曲解原文。
第3题:
【选项释义】
The author of the passage implies that which of the following would be the LEAST useful source of information about Proust’s transition from working on Contre Saint-Beuve to having a viable structure for Remembrance of Thing Past? 这篇文章的作者暗示，关于普鲁斯特从创作《驳圣伯夫》过渡到为创作《追忆似水年华》的切实可行的结构，以下哪项是最没有用的信息来源？
A. Fallois’s comments in the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve A. 法卢瓦在1954年版的《驳圣伯夫》中的评论
B. Proust’s 1909 notebooks, including the drafts of Remembrance of Thing B. 普鲁斯特1909年的笔记本，包括《追忆似水年华》的草稿
C. Proust’s 1909 correspondence, excluding the letter to Vallette C. 普鲁斯特1909年的信件，不包括给瓦莱特的信
D. Bonnet’s researches concerning Proust’s drafts of the final book of Remembrance of Things Past D. 邦纳关于普鲁斯特《追忆似水年华》最后一本书的草稿的研究报告
【考查点】判断推理题。
【解题思路】根据第二段关键信息：Proust elicited vital memories of his own and, finding subtle connections between them, began to amass the material for Remembrance. By August, Proust was writing to Vallettee, informing him of his intention to develop the material as a novel（普鲁斯特激发了自己的重要记忆，并在它们之间找到了微妙的联系，开始为《追忆似水年华》积累素材。到了8月，普鲁斯特写信给瓦莱特，告诉他打算把这些材料写成小说），由此可知，普鲁斯特1909年的给瓦莱特的信件中，表明他要把从《驳圣伯夫》中创作的积累的素材，写成小说《追忆似水年华》。由此可推测，若把给瓦莱特的信除开，则无法在这些信件的基础上证明文章《驳圣伯夫》与小说《追忆似水年华》之间关系，也就无法证明《驳圣伯夫》能为《追忆似水年华》的创作提供切实可行的结构，所以C选项“普鲁斯特1909年的信件，不包括给瓦莱特的信”，符合题干，正确答案为C选项。
【干扰项排除】A、B、D选项均属于曲解原文。
A选项“法卢瓦在1954年版的《驳圣伯夫》中的评论”，根据第一段关键信息：A recently published letter from Proust to the editor Vallette confirms that Fallois, the editor of the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve, made an essentially correct guess about the relationship of the essay to the novel（最近出版的一封普鲁斯特写给编辑瓦莱特的信证实，1954年版《驳圣伯夫》的编辑法卢瓦对这篇短文与小说之间的关系做出了基本正确的猜测），结合前文分析可知，法卢瓦的评论是“《驳圣伯夫》是小说《追忆似水年华》的起源”，这能证实《驳圣伯夫》为《追忆似水年华》提供了切实可行的结构，该选项正确，属于反向干扰；
B选项“普鲁斯特1909年的笔记本，包括《追忆似水年华》的草稿”，根据第二段前两句：Draft passages in Proust’s 1909 notebooks indicate that the transition from essay to novel began in Contre Saint-Bcuve, when Proust introduced several examples to show the powerful influence that involuntary memory exerts over the creative imagination. In effect, in trying to demonstrate that the imagination is more profound and less submissive to the intellect than Saint-Beuve assumed, Proust elicited vital memories of his own and, finding subtle connections between them, began to amass the material for Remembrance（普鲁斯特1909年笔记中的草稿表明，从散文到小说的过渡始于《驳圣伯夫》，当时普鲁斯特引入了几个例子，以显示无意识记忆对创造性想象力的强大影响。实际上，为了证明想象力比圣伯夫假设的更深刻，更不屈从于智力，普鲁斯特激发了自己的重要记忆，并在它们之间找到了微妙的联系，开始为《追忆似水年华》积累素材），可知在创作《驳圣伯夫》中，为《追忆似水年华》积累了素材，因此也可证明《驳圣伯夫》为《追忆似水年华》提供了切实可行的结构，该选项正确，属于反向干扰；
D选项“邦纳关于普鲁斯特《追忆似水年华》最后一本书的草稿的研究报告”，根据第三段第一句：Intrigued by Proust’s claim that he had “begun and finished” Remembrance at the same time, Henry Bonnet discovered that parts of Remembrances last book were actually started in 1909（普鲁斯特声称他是同时“开始和完成”《追忆似水年华》的，这引起了亨利•邦纳的兴趣，他发现《追忆似水年华》最后一本书的部分内容实际上是在1909年开始的），由此可知，邦纳关于普鲁斯特《追忆似水年华》最后一本书的研究是，这本小说是在1909年开始创作的，而从普鲁斯特1909年笔记中的草稿表明，这是他从散文到小说的过渡，也就是从《驳圣伯夫》过渡到《追忆似水年华》，因此该选项可以证实《驳圣伯夫》为《追忆似水年华》提供了切实可行的结构，属于反向干扰。
第4题:
【选项释义】
The passage offers information to answer which of the following questions? 这篇文章为回答以下哪个问题提供了信息？
A. Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to abandon Contre Saint-Beuve? A. 1909年，普鲁斯特到底是在什么时候决定放弃《驳圣伯夫》的？
B. Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to connect the beginning and the end of Remembrance of Things Past? B. 准确地说，普鲁斯特是在1909年什么时候决定把《追忆似水年华》的开头和结尾连接起来的？
C. What specific criticisms of Saint-Beuve appear, in fictional form, in Remembrance of Things Past? C. 在《追忆似水年华》中以虚构的形式出现了对圣伯夫的哪些具体批评？
D. What is a theme concerning art that appears in the final book of Remembrance of Things Past? D. 在《追忆似水年华》的最后一卷中出现的关于艺术的主题是什么？
【考查点】判断推理题。
【解题思路】根据D选项中的关键词final book确定答案所在区域为第三段。根据第三段关键信息：Already in that year, Proust had drafted descriptions of his novel’s characters in their old age that would appear in the final book of Remembrance, where the permanence of art is set against the ravages of time（早在那一年，普鲁斯特就已经起草了小说中人物晚年的描述，这些描述将出现在《追忆似水年华》的最后一卷中，在这卷中，艺术的永恒与时间的摧残相对抗），由此可推断：文章为“在《追忆似水年华》的最后一卷中出现的关于艺术的主题是什么？”这个问题提供了回答，所以正确答案为D选项。
【干扰项排除】A、B、C选项均属于曲解原文。
第5题:
【选项释义】
Which of the following best describes the relationship between Contre Saint-Beuve and Remembrance of Things Past as it is explained in the passage? 以下哪项最能说明文中所解释的《驳圣伯夫》和《追忆似水年华》之间的关系？
A. Immediately after abandoning Contre Saint-Beuve, at Vallette’s suggestion, Proust started Remembrance as a fictional demonstration that Saint-Beuve was wrong about the imagination A. 在放弃《驳圣伯夫》后，在瓦莱特的建议下，普鲁斯特立即开始了《追忆似水年华》的创作，以虚构的方式证明圣伯夫对想象力的看法是错误的
B. Immediately after abandoning Contre Saint-Beuve, at Vallette’s suggestion, Proust turned his attention to Remembrance, starting with incidents that had occurred to him while planning the essay B. 在放弃《驳圣伯夫》之后，在瓦莱特的建议下，普鲁斯特立即将注意力转向《追忆似水年华》，从他在计划这篇文章时发生的事件开始
C. Despondent that he could not find a coherent structure for Contre Saint-Beuve, an essay about the role of memory in fiction, Proust began instead to write Remembrance, a novel devoted to important early memories C. 普鲁斯特对自己无法为《驳圣伯夫》这篇关于记忆在小说中的作用的文章找到一个连贯的结构，而感到失望，于是开始写《追忆似水年华》，这是一部专门描写早期重要记忆的小说
D. While developing his argument about the imagination in Contre Saint-Beuve, Proust described and began to link together personal memories that became a foundation for Remembrance D. 普鲁斯特在《驳圣伯夫》中发展了他关于想象力的论点，同时描述并开始将个人记忆联系起来，这些都成为《追忆似水年华》的基础
【考查点】事实细节题。
【解题思路】根据第二段前两句：Draft passages in Proust’s 1909 notebooks indicate that the transition from essay to novel began in Contre Saint-Bcuve, when Proust introduced several examples to show the powerful influence that involuntary memory exerts over the creative imagination. In effect, in trying to demonstrate that the imagination is more profound and less submissive to the intellect than Saint-Beuve assumed, Proust elicited vital memories of his own and, finding subtle connections between them, began to amass the material for Remembrance（普鲁斯特1909年笔记中的草稿表明，从散文到小说的过渡始于《驳圣伯夫》，当时普鲁斯特引入了几个例子，以显示无意识记忆对创造性想象力的强大影响。实际上，为了证明想象力比圣伯夫假设的更深刻，更不屈从于智力，普鲁斯特激发了自己的重要记忆，并在它们之间找到了微妙的联系，开始为《追忆似水年华》积累素材），由此可知“普鲁斯特在《驳圣伯夫》中发展了他关于想象力的论点，同时描述并开始将个人记忆联系起来，这些都成为《追忆似水年华》的基础”符合原文对《驳圣伯夫》和《追忆似水年华》之间的关系的描述，所以正确答案为D选项。
【干扰项排除】A、B、C选项均属于曲解原文。
