MONTAGNE: In the summer of 2011, the world

题目内容：

MONTAGNE: In the summer of 2011, the world first heard of a small island in Norway under the most terrible of circumstances. Utoya Island was a youth camp run by Norway's Labor Party. One day in July, a heavily armed, right-wing extremist stepped onto the island and began shooting at random. Sixty-nine people died, over 100 were wounded; almost all, young people. This month, artist Jonas Dahlberg was appointed to create a memorial. He described to us the experience he imagines for those who come to the island.

DAHLBERG: You start your walk through a forest of evergreens on a wooden pathway. After a while, this pathway starts to go down into the landscape.

MONTAGNE: Down into the landscape, and into a short tunnel. When you come out, you are unable to go any farther. You can't get to the tip of the island because it has been cut off. So all you can do is look across a narrow channel of water at what is now a wall of polished stone, carved with the names of the dead.

DAHLBERG: It becomes almost like a gravestone. You cannot reach it. It's close enough to be able to read, but it's forever lost for your possibility to reach.

MONTAGNE: It's being called a memory wound. Exactly what do you mean by that?

DAHLBERG: During my first site visit, the experience of seeing those gunshots—and you can see it was like being in an open wound. And it took me to a stage of deep sadness where it was hard to breathe. So I didn't want to illustrate loss; I wanted to make actual loss. It's just a cut through the island.

MONTAGNE: On the day of the massacre, just hours before launching his shooting on the island, the killer set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, leaving eight people dead. As those events were unfolding, artist Jonas Dahlberg had been out with his brother, and stopped in at a seaside village.

DAHLBERG: In the harbor, it was silent, and this is the higher end of summer. So, it's normally a very lively place. And it was total silence there; and it was a very, very strange feeling in the whole small village. And it's totally impossible to grasp what is going on. And then it just kept on. It's still almost impossible to understand it. It's also one of the reasons why it's so important with memorials for these kind of things. It's to maybe help a little bit to understand what was happening. So it's not just about remembering. It's also about trying to just understand.

MONTAGNE: Artist Jonas Dahlberg designed the memorial for the 69 who died at a youth camp on Utoya Island. The attack was the deadliest in Norway since World War II. That memorial will open in 2015. And to see a virtual version of what it will look like, go to our website, at npr.org. This is Renee Montagne at NPR news.

小题1:Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Utoya Island was the only bloody shooting spot planned by the killer.

B．Utoya Island used to be a youth camp site and now has been reduced to total silence.

C．Dahlberg and his brother witnessed the shooting on Utoya Island.

D．Visitors to Utoya Island can touch the names of the victims carved on the polished stone.小题2:By the underlined phrase “a memory wound”, Dahlberg means all the following EXCEPT that ________.

A．the artist plans to slice through the end of an island to make actual loss

B．memorials are supposed to be not only about remembering but helping people to understand what was happening

C．this memorial shows the gunshots vividly to the visitors for them to understand what was happening

D．the space between is meant to symbolize how those who were killed are gone but are not forgotten小题3: Which of the following pictures shows the design of the memorial?

A．

B．

C．

D．

最佳答案：

小题1:B

小题2:C

小题3:A

答案解析：

文章是网站主持人和艺术家的对话，介绍Utoya Island被恐怖袭击后，为了纪念死者建筑纪念碑的设计方案。

小题1:细节题：从第一段的句子;Utoya Island was a youth camp run by Norway's Labor Party. One day in July, a heavily armed, right-wing extremist stepped onto the island and began shooting at random. Sixty-nine people died, over 100 were wounded; almost all, young people.和倒数第二段的句子：In the harbor, it was silent, and this is the higher end of summer. So, it's normally a very lively place. And it was total silence there; 可知Utoya Island曾经是青少年的营地，现在一片沉寂，选B。

小题2:细节题：根据第六段的句子：So I didn't want to illustrate loss; I wanted to make actual loss.可知A是对的， 从第八段的句子：So it's not just about remembering. It's also about trying to just understand.可知B是对的，从第五段的句子：It becomes almost like a gravestone. You cannot reach it. It's close enough to be able to read, but it's forever lost for your possibility to reach.可知D是对的，而从倒数第二段的句子：And it's totally impossible to grasp what is going on. And then it just kept on. It's still almost impossible to understand it.可知C是错的。

小题3:推理题：根据第三段的句子：When you come out, you are unable to go any farther. You can't get to the tip of the island because it has been cut off. So all you can do is look across a narrow channel of water at what is now a wall of polished stone, carved with the names of the dead.可知在岛屿和纪念碑之间被切断了，有一道狭窄的水域，所以A图是纪念碑deep设计。

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