[D] The anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms

　　40. Which of the following is true of the text?

　　[A] Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.

　　[B] Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.

　　[C] People feel disappointed at the realities of morality.

　　[D] mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.

　　[第36题答案及题解页数] D 第页

　　[第37题答案及题解页数] B 第页

　　[第38题答案及题解页数] D 第页

　　[第39题答案及题解页数] B 第页

　　[第40题答案及题解页数] A 第页

　　[长难句突破]

　　In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms.

　　主体句式：The most powerful mass medium was the church.

　　结构分析：这个句子有着较多的组成成分。首先，在主句前面的“in, before”引导的两个状语分别表示地点和时间，为整个句子提供一个背景。主句后面which引导的定语从句用来形容church，而从句中that引导的宾语从句是remind的内容，其中包含了that引导的两个并列宾语从句。

　　Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it.