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 “exotic" in paragraph two is closest in meaning to ________.

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• All of the following are true about robots EXCEPT that ............

• The word “They” in paragraph 2 refers to ...............

• It can be inferred from the passage that for most Americans ______.

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• What does “they” refer to?

• The “labellum” (line 7) is most comparable to .........

• In the first paragraph, the word "elements" is closest in meaning to .............

• According to paragraph 1, the author of the passage argues that ................

• According to the passage, how do computer-animation companies often test motion?

• In the paragraph following the passage most probably discusses  ..............

• How was the public motivated to help the health workers?

• People nod their head to say no in ...............

• The passage supports which of the following conclusions?

• The word “doubtless” in the passage mostly means ...............

• What does this paragraph mainly discuss?

• How many Americans are involved in telecommuting?

• The word “applicable” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ..........

• According to the passage, the way to stop water pollution is ...........

• "Negative publicity" in the passage most likely means .................

• Which title best summarizes the main idea of the passage?

• hat caused thousands of deaths in 2003?