Read the following passage and mark the letters A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions below. 

This 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 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.

The main idea of this passage is ____________. 

• A. that the new American literature was less provincial than the old
• B. that World War I caused a dramatic change in America
• C. that centers of culture shifted from East to West
• D. that most people were wary of the new literature

• Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 36024

  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

• Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 36025

  The word “evolved” in paragraph two is closest in meaning to ______________.

  • A. became famous
  • B. turned back
  • C. diminished
  • D. changed

• Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 36026

  The word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______________.

  • A. the population
  • B. the energy
  • C. American literature
  • D. the manufacturing

• Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 36027

  The word “exotic" in paragraph two is closest in meaning to _________.

  • A. urban
  • B. unusual
  • C. well-known
  • D. old-fashioned

• Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 36028

  The author uses the word “indeed” in the second paragraph for what purpose?

  • A. To emphasize the contrast he is making.
  • B. For variety in a lengthy paragraph.
  • C. To wind down his argument.
  • D. To show a favorable attitude to these forms of literature.

• Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 36029

  The phrase “these years” in the third paragraph refers to __________.

  • A. 1850-1900
  • B. the 1900s
  • C. the early 1800s
  • D. the present

• Câu 8: Mã câu hỏi: 36030

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

  • A. disliked urban life
  • B. was disapproving of the new literature
  • C. wrote Leaves of Grass
  • D. was an international diplomat