专四专八考试

【单选题】HarrietBeecher Stowe was raised in a Puritan tradition of high moral standarD、Her father LymanBeecher was aCongregational Minister and brother Henry WardBeecher became pastor ofBrooklyn’s PlymouthChurch. TheBeechers moved toCincinatti when LymanBeecher was appointed President of Lane Theological seminary. There, Harriet’s sisterCatharine founded Western Female Institute, where Harriet taught until her 1834 marriage to widowerCalvin Stowe, aBiblical Literature professor at Lane.During the first seven years of marriage she bore five children, writing pieces for magazines to compliment Professor Stowe’s meager salary. She won a short story prize from Western Monthly Magazine, and her literary production and skill increased steadily. In 1834, her short-story collection The Mayflower was publisheD、
This Ohio period gave Stowe the impetus to write Uncle Tom’sCabin.Cincinnati was just across the river from the slave trade, and she observed firsthand several incidents which galvanized her to write famous anti-slavery novel. Scenes she observed on the Ohio River, including seeing a husband and wife being sold apart, as well as newspaper and magazine accounts and interviews, contributed material to the e-merging plot. The family shared her abolitionist sentiment and was active in hiding runaway slaves.
In 1850Calvin Stowe was appointed atBowdoin, and the entire family returned to the Northeast. They reachedBoston at the height of the public furor over the 1850 Fugitive Slaye Law, which mandated the return of runaway slaves already in the North to their owners. Many former slaves fled toCanada from their homes in NewEnglanD、Harriet set about writing a polemical novel illustrating the moral responsibility of the entire nation for the cruel system. She forwarded the first episodes toDr.Bailey, editor of the Washington anti-slavery weekly, The NationalErA、He agreed to pay ＄ 300 for the work, then published it in 40 installments. The suspenseful episodes were read weekly to families and gatherings throughout the lanD、Despite The NationalEra’s small circulation, limited to an audience already sympathetic to abolitionism, the installments reached a large audience as worn copies were passed from family to family.Although many Northerners considered slavery a political institution for which they had no personal responsibility, Uncle Tom’sCabin was becoming a national sensation.
The episodes attracted the attention ofBoston publisher, J. P. Jewett, who published the work in March of 1852. Uncle Tom’sCabin immediately broke all sales records of the day: selling half-a-million copies by 1857. HarrietBeecher Stowe received royalties only on theAmerican editions; unauthorized dramatic productions boomed, as did a profusion of artifacts, "Tomitudes," based on the story. PiratedEuropean editions also had astronomical sales. Putnam’s Magazine called Uncle Tom’sCabin "the first real success in bookmaking." Stowe went on to many other literary projects, producing about a book a year from 1862 to 1884. For all the attention given to Uncle Tom’sCabin, it’s far from Stowe’s best work. She did write one other novel about life in the south, but much of her best work has nothing the south at all. In fact, Stowe’s best writing is about village life in the NewEngland’s states in the 19th century. However, she is still most remembered as the author of Uncle Tom’sCabin.
What contributed to Stowe’s success in writingA．Her puritan tradition of high moral standarD、
B．Her family.

C、Her teaching in Western Female Institute.
D．Her effort to compliment her husband’s meager salary.

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
推理判断题。从四个选项判断本题要从Harriet Beecher Stowe的生活经历上选出正确答案。根据第一段的内容，她的几个经历包括由于她丈夫工资收入不高，她写作补充家用。选项[D]是文中的原句，可以推断答案为[D]。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>