The rapid transcontinentat 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."

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

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• The word “tedious” in the last paragraph mostly means     .

• Why did the professor study the Brazilian students’ behaviour?

• The pronoun "they" in the second paragraph refers to ..........

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• What is the main point the writer is trying to make in the last paragraph?

• According to the passage, travel books, biographies and memoirs ______.

• The writer's father retired early because ..................

• The word "supported" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.

• The word “derived” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.

• What does the author say in paragraph 1 regarding most species in Earth’s history?

• The word “they” refers to ................

• It can be inferred from the passage that limestone deposits serve as the basis of .................

• From the expression “on record” in line 19, it can be inferred that the tsunami that accompanied the Krakatoa volcano ___________ .

• It is mentioned in the passage that many gestures .................

• Which aspect of colonial printing does the passage mainly discuss?

• What does the passage mainly discuss?

• The word “them” in the second paragraph refers to ................

• The word “contagious” is closest in meaning to ___________.

• It can be inferred from the passage that the eye ___.

• The word “woo” is closest in meaning to __________

• According to the passage, the banded gecko ..................