Question

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

    The rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century were accompanied by the development of national literature of great abundance and variety. New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century.

    As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York in the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South; no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives; no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times; no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression; no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women.

          In sum, American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for in 1867 in describing Leaves of Grass: it treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as “and expands from them, and includes the world ... connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations"

The author uses the word “indeed” in the second paragraph for what purpose?

A. To emphasize the contrast he is making

B. For variety in a lengthy paragraph

C. To wind down his argument

D. To show a favorable attitude to these forms of literature

Answer 1

Đáp án A

Tác giả sử dụng từ “indeed” ở đoạn 2 nhằm mục đích gì?

A.Để nhấn mạnh sự tương phản ông đang làm.

B. Cho sự đa dạng trong một đoạn văn dài

C. Để giảm dần lý luận của ông ta

D. Để cho thấy thái độ tốt đối với những hình thức này của văn học Giải thích: “No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms;…; no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression” ( Nó không còn được sản xuất, ít nhất là trong các hình thức phổ biến của nó;…; thực sự, tiểu thuyết, thơ, kịch, và lịch sử chính thống không còn được chấp nhận là các hình thức chính của biểu đạt văn chương)