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."

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

The main idea of this passage is________.

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• Merlin put wheels under his shoes in order to __________

• Pollution in water is noticed .............

• Which of the following could NOT be said about calculators?

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• The speaker’s main topic is ...................

• The passage is mainly about ...............

• According to the text, Marrination, when built, will be a(an)__________ city.

• The word “it” in paragraph 1 refers to ____________.

• The first to support the equality of the sexes was _______.

• What surprised John most about the flight?

• Did the town people believe the story of the five men about their meeting with Bigfoot?

• According to paragraph 4, what makes it possible for students in Germany to attend different universities during their undergraduate studies?

• A housewife’s services in a family of five people are worth ............

• The word “accounts” is closest in meaning to ...........

• The first to support the equality of the sexes was .................

• Which of the following has nothing to do with the isolation among Americans?

• All of the following are defined in the passage EXCEPT ............

• According to the passage, an exuberant tone of voice may be an indication of a person’s ____________.

• Which statement would the author probably agree with?

• Ancient education generally focused its efforts on .............

• The passage is mainly about ............