問題詳情

Any young writer who may imagine that the power of clear andconcise literary expression comes by nature, cannot do better thanstudy in Goldsmith’s writings the continual and minute alternationswhich the author considered necessary even after the firstedition—sometimes when the second and third editions had beenpublished. Many of these, especially in the poetical works, weremerely improvements in sound, as suggested by a singularlysensitive ear. But the majority of the omissions and corrections wereprompted by a careful taste, which abhorred everything redundant orslovenly. The English people are very fond of good English, and thusit is that couplets from “The Traveler” and “The Deserted Village”have come into the common stock of our language, and thatsometimes not so much on account of the ideas they convey asthrough their singular precision of epithet and musical sound.
57. According to the passage, Goldsmith avoided _______ .
(A) criticism
(B) omissions
(C) alternations
(D) redundancy

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.571429
統計：A(0),B(2),C(1),D(4),E(0)

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