托福考试

根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，以下试题在2019/4/3日托福考试习题练习中，答错率较高，为：33%
【单选题】
{$mediaurl} What is the talk mainly about
A、The effect of theCivil War onAmerican literature.
B、A、genre inAmerican literature of the late nineteenth century.
C、The way in whichAmerican realism influenced U.S. society.
D、The body of literature written by Mark Twain.
网考网参考答案：B，答错率：33%
网考网试题解析：
[解析] 6-11 [Professor (male)] Q6 Class, during the late nineteenth century, there was a movement going on in American literature. I’m talking about the period roughly between 1860 and the turn of the century. Can anyone name the movement i’m talking about [Student A (female)] Yeah...that was the period when realism dominated American literature. [Professor] Exactly. And can you...um, describe any characteristics of American realism [Student A] Sure. During that time, writers were focusing on, um, representing reality as accurately as they could.That’s why it’s called realism, I guess. [Professor] Right. In one sense, realism is a technique writers used to convey details about the world around them. Q7(A) But in another sense, it’s also a certain kind of subject matter--the life of middle-class Americans. Q7(C) Um, it was a response to--or a reaction against--the style of writing that was popular in American literature during the early nineteenth century. That was romanticism--and it was all about nature, art, inspiration, and spirituality. So realism was, in a way, resisting the ideas of romanticism. Q7(B) Instead, realism prized the scientific method, systematic investigation, and rationality above all else. Q8 I think it’s important to place realist literature in a historical context, so let’s spend a minute talking about what was going on in American society during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Would anyone be willing to venture a suggestion [Student B (male)] Well, one major event was the Civil War. 1861 to 1865, right [Professor] Great. You’re absolutely right. The Civil War had a huge effect on American society and identity. It changed everything. I mean, look at the South--the war really destroyed a lot of the South. Another result of the war was a rise in technology, which had been developed for use in the war but ended up leading into a period of industrialization. Oh, and let’s not forget the way the war directly influenced literature--it created a new market for books and articles that featured everyday people as subjects, like soldiers, the working class, and the poor. [Student B] Q10 Yeah, I studied that in my American history class last year. Some of the men who, uh, served in the war became really famous because, you know, they’d, uh... [Professor] [interrupting] Uh...I’ll stop you there, Martin. We’ve got a lot to get through today and only limited time. So, uh, tell me--what else was happening in American society at the time [Student A] I know there were also lots of important scientific developments and, uh, breakthrough theories being developed back then. Maybe they had an effect. [Professor] That’s a great point! Q9 Things like the publication of Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species, which, uh, you know, challenged people’s fundamental understanding of the world...these sorts of things made a big impact on American culture. And this shift interested writers, who explored related topics in their work. Anyway, what I’m getting at here is the idea that there was an awful lot of change occurring during this period of American history, and it was all happening rather quickly. Some have argued that realism was, in essence, a way of, um, analyzing and digesting those changes...changes that could’ve查看试题解析出处>>