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[单项选择]According to the author, the nineteenth-century defenders of photography mentioned in the passage stressed that photography was ______.
A. a technologically advanced activity
B. an art for observing the world impartially
C. an art comparable to painting
D. an art that would eventually replace the traditional arts
[单项选择]According to the author, in the nineteenth century people gradually ______.
A. emigrated to other countries
B. often settled in the West
C. tended to change the place in which they lived
D. had a higher rate of birth than ever before
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Emily Dickinson was a nineteenth-century American woman who lived her life completely unknown to anyone except her family and a few friends. Less than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. In spite of this, she is regarded today as a great poet, perhaps the greatest poet the United States has produced. Along with the Greek poet Sappho, she may be one of the two greatest women poets who have ever lived.
Dickinson was born on December 10,1830, in a small Massachusetts town called Amherst. Hers was an old family, and her ancestors had come to the United States 200 years before" Her parents were not really rich, but they were certainly not poor. She had an older brother, Austin, and a younger sister, Lavinia. Her parents seem to have been rather withdrawn people, and the members of the family spent a good deal of time by themselves. She doesn’t seem to have liked her mother very much. She spoke once of never really having a mother.
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A. Sappho.
B. Emily Dickinson.
C. Both Sappho and Emily Dickinson.
D. Not mentioned in the passage.
[单项选择]How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography
A. They stressed photography was a means of making people happy.
B. It was art for recording the world.
C. It was a device for observing the world impartially.
D. It was an art comparable to paintin
[单项选择]The nineteenth-century romantic movement in art was partially a reaction to what was perceived as overemphasis on reasonable and order in neoclassicism.
[单项选择]In the nineteenth last century what Britain did for Commonwealth education was ______.
A. merely to encourage children to go to school
B. to build institutions on the pattern of Oxford and Cambridge
C. to encourage missionaries to set up more schools
D. to give financial help to set up schools