V ①People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. ②They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. ③In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. ④Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too. 37. The word “bummer” (Paragraph 5) most probably means something _____.[A] religious[B] unpleasant[C] entertaining[D] commercial
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2006年英语text4
解析 本题为词汇题，需要回到原文，抓住所考词上下文之间的逻辑关系。bummer出现在第五段的最后一句话中，该句句首有一个非常关键和醒目的逻辑连接短语：Given all this 。 由此可知，这句话和上文之间是相同关系。下面我们来梳理第五段其他各句之间的逻辑关系。 句①指出早期时代的人们被痛苦的提示所包围；句②介绍人们工作到筋疲力尽，生活没有保障且年纪轻轻便会死去。
