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江西成考专升本英语阅读难点关键句七(2)

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2017年04月19日

摘要：　　121. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism， consecrated by the blood of martyrs （烈士） ；he is provided with comport and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind；

te-though，in fact，human beings spend at least half their leisure doing nothing else-and if highbrowism and lowbrowism were exclusively （ as it is certain that they are in great part）matters of individual taste，there would be no more to say about them than what I have said in the preceding lines.

　　125. Thus I desire a great deal less pleasure from jazz and thrillers than from the music，let us say，of Beethoven（贝多芬）or the novels，for example，of Dostoievsky；and the sex appeal of the girls on the covers of magazines seems to me less thrilling than the more complicated appeal to a great variety of feelings made by a Rubens，an EI Greco，a Constable，a Seurat.

　　126. One need only ask first-year university students what music they listen to ，how much of it and what it means to them，in order to discover that the phenomenon is universal in America，that it begins in adolescence or a bit before and continues through the college years.

　　127. They start，like the pharisee in the parable ，by thanking G