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Questions 29-39The economic depression in the late-nineteenth-century United States contributedsignificantly to a growing movement in literature toward realism and naturalism. After the1870' s, a number of important authors began to reject the romanticism that had prevailedLine immediately following the Civil War of 1861-1865 and turned instead to realism.(5) Determined to portray life as it was, with fidelity to real life and accurate representationwithout idealization, they studied local dialects, wrote stories which focused on life inspecific regions of the country, and emphasized the "true" relationships between people. Indoing so, they reflected broader trends in the society, such as industrialization,evolutionary theory which emphasized the effect of the environment on humans, and the(10) influence of science.Realists such as Joel Chandler Harris and Ellen Glasgow depicted life in the South;Hamlin Garland described life on the Great Plains; and Sarah One Jewett wrote abouteveryday life in rural New England. Another realist, Bret Harte, achieved fame with storiesthat portrayed local life in the California mining camps.(15) Samuel Clemens, who adopted the pen name Mark Twain, became the country's mostoutstanding realist author, observing life around him with a humorous and skeptical eye. Inhis stories and novels, Twain drew on his own experiences and used dialect and commonspeech instead of literary language, touching off a major change in American prose style.Other writers became impatient even with realism. Pushing evolutionary theory to its(20) limits, they wrote of a world in which a cruel and merciless environment determinedhuman fate. These writers, called naturalists, often focused on economic hardship,studying people struggling with poverty, and other aspects of urban and industrial life.Naturalists brought to their writing a passion for direct and honest experience.Theodore Dreiser, the foremost naturalist writer, in novels such as Sister Carrie, grimly(25) portrayed a dark world in which human beings were tossed about by forces beyond theirunderstanding or control. Dreiser thought that writers should tell the truth about humanaffairs, not fabricate romance, and Sister Carrie, he said, was "not intended as a piece ofliterary craftsmanship, but was a picture of conditions."
29. Which aspect of late-nineteenth-centuryUnited States literature does the passagemainly discuss?
(A) The influence of science onliterature
(B) The importance of dialects for realistwriters
(C) The emergence of realism andnaturalism
(D) The effects of industrialization onromanticism

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答案：C
難度：非常簡單1
統計：A(0),B(0),C(4),D(0),E(0)

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