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"
It can be inferred from the passage that the previous passage probably discussed________.
A. the importance of tradition to writers
B. new developments in industrialization and population shifts
C. the fashions and values of 19th century America
D. the limitations of American literature to this time
Đáp án B
Có thể suy luận từ đoạn văn rằng đoạn văn trước đó có thể thảo luận về………….
A. tầm quan trọng của truyền thống đối với các nhà văn
B. phát triển mới trong công nghiệp và chuyển dịch dân cư
C. thời trang và giá trị của thế kỷ 19 Mỹ
D. những hạn chế của văn học Mỹ đến thời điểm này
Giải thích: Câu đầu tiên của bài đọc là: The rapid transcontinentat 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. (Việc định cư xuyên lục địa nhanh chóng và những trường hợp công nghiệp đô thị mới của nửa cuối của thế kỷ 19 đã được đi kèm với sự phát triển của văn học dân tộc một cách phong phú và đa dạng.)