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 36 to 44.
The modem comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper was between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared in January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today's Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst's rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.
Both were immensely popular, and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the "Yellow Kid," the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The "Yellow Kid" was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech balloon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters' heads.
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks's "Katzenjammer Kids", based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The "Kids" strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of the earliest comics.
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. They first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strips had become a staple of daily newspaper; around the country.
To say that Richard Outcault had been "lured away from the World” by Hearst (line 7) means which of the following?
A. Hearst convinced Outcault to leave the World
B. Hearst fired Outcault from the World
C. Hearst warned Outcault to leave the World
D. Hearst wanted Outcault to work for the World
Đáp án A
Thông tin: The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the "Yellow Kid," the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst.
Dịch nghĩa: The Morning Journal bắt đầu một chuyên mục khác trong năm 1896, truyện "Yellow Kid", nhân vật truyện tranh liên tục đầu tiên tại Hoa Kỳ, mà người sáng tạo của nó , Richard Outcault, đã bị lôi kéo đi từ tờ World bởi Hearst đầy tham vọng.
Cấu trúc Lure sb from = lôi kéo ai khỏi
Phương án A. Hearst convinced Outcault to leave the World = Hearst thuyết phục Outcault rời khỏi tờ World, là phương án chính xác nhất.
B. Hearst fired Outcault from the World = Hearst sa thải Outcault khỏi tờ World.
Không có thông tin như vậy trong bài.
C. Hearst warned Outcault to leave the World = Hearst cảnh báo Outcault nên rời khỏi tờ World.
Không có thông tin như vậy trong bài.
D. Hearst wanted Outcault to work for the World = Hearst muốn Outcault làm việc cho tờ World.
Không có thông tin như vậy trong bài.