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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 33 to 40.This rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century was accompanied by the development of a 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 peers "and expands from them and includes the world… connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations." At the same time, these years saw the emergence of what has been designated "the literature of argument," powerful works in sociology, philosophy, psychology, many of them impelled by the spirit of exposure and reform. Just as America learned to play a role in this half century as an autonomous international political, economic, and military power, so did its literature establish itself as a producer of major works.

Câu 1: It can be inferred from the passage that Walt Whitman _____________.

A. was disapproving of the new literature

B. was an international diplomat

C. wrote Leaves of Grass 

D. disliked urban life

Câu 2: It can be inferred from the first paragraph that the previous passage probably discussed___________.

A. new developments in industrialization and population shifts

B. the fashions and values of 19th century America

C. the limitations of American literature to this time

D. he importance of tradition to writers

Câu 3: The word “exotic" in paragraph two is closest in meaning to_________.

A. urban                              

B. unusual                          

C. well-known  

D. old-fashioned

Câu 4: All of the following can be inferred from the passage about the new literature EXCEPT_____.

A. It introduced new American themes, characters, and settings

B. It was not highly regarded internationally

C.  It spoke to the issue of reform and change

D. It broke with many literary traditions of the past

Câu 5: The phrase “these years” in the third paragraph refers to ___________.

A. the early 1800s     

B. the 1900s  

C. 1850-1900 

D. the present

Câu 6: The word “it” in the second paragraph refers to______________.

A. the population 

B. the manufacturing

C. American literature         

D. the energy

Câu 7: This passage would probably be read in which of the following academic courses?

A. Current events   

B. International affairs

C. European history     

D. American literature

Câu 8: The main idea of this passage is____________.

A. that centers of culture shifted from East to West

B. that the new American literature was less provincial than the old

C.  that World War I caused a dramatic change in America

D. that most people were wary of the new literature

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