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[单项选择]Unlike some classic European novels, American literature encompasses many different, even unique, styles and genres. One of the most interesting of these is the Southern Gothic subgenre. As its name implies, Southern Gothic literature is reflective of life in the American South. Southern Gothic maintains some of the characteristics of Gothic writing, such as plot development of the supernatural or the ironic. However, Southern Gothic does not focus on creating tension and suspense like other Gothic genres. Instead, Southern Gothic story lines examine Southern society and its underlying, often implicit, social structure.
Southern Gothic writers generally spurn the stereotype of the gentleman on the plantation and the glamorous Southern belle. Instead, the authors develop characters that are sinister or reclusive and not particularly pleasant on the surface. However, these characters usually have redeeming qualities that allow and encourage the reader to empathize with their situati
A. explain how Southern Gothic writers use immoral personalities to explore moral issues in the American South
B. explore the primary stylistic differences between classical Gothic and Southern Gothic
C. argue that Southern Gothic is sufficiently unique to merit its classification as a distinct subgenre
D. deny the necessity of tension and suspense as defining features of Gothic literature
E. describe the identifying features of the Southern Gothic subgenre
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Unlike their American or European counterparts, car salesmen in Japan work hard to get a buyer. Instead of wandering around showrooms waiting for customers to drop by, many Japanese car salesmen still go out to get them. They walk on the streets selling cars door-to-door. New customers are hunted with a vengeance and existing ones entertained with fruit and cakes on their birthdays. But life is getting tough—and not just because new-car sales are falling.
With more Japanese women (who often control the household budget) going out to work, the salesmen increasingly find nobody at home when they call. That means another visit in the evening or at the weekend. Then they face an extra problem: more people, especially the young, prefer to choose a new car from a showroom where they can compare different models.
Even as late as the mid-1980s some 90% of new cars were sold door-to-door. In some rural areas most new cars are still sold this way. But in the big citie
A. new car sales are falling
B. Japan is in recession
C. car prices are increasing fast
D. high inflation has dented the customers’ purchasing power
[填空题]Unlike some other arthritis treatments, there doesn’t appear to be anything actually harmful about the Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine in Boulder, Mont. True, radio-active radon gas—the active ingredient in what the mine’s owners advertise as "the unmedical approach to anthritis"—can cause cancer. (21)But while the radiation level in the old uranium mine is 175 times the federal standard for dwellings, patients spend only a couple of hours a day down there—not enough to be dangerous by itself. The average patient’s age is 72, according to Adrian Howe, chief of the state Occupational Health Bureay; since "the time it takes for lung cancer to develop in an adult is 15 to 30 years, it’s likely that other potential causes of death might occur before lung cancer."
Is it odd that people would seek out a known carcinogen in their quest for relief from arthritis Not really. Arthritis patients are particularly apt to try unproven treatments; one study found that 94 percent of a
[单项选择]The European Recovery Program, an American program to aid Europe after the WWII, is also called
A. Truman Doctrine.
B. Bretton Woods System.
C. Molotov Plan.
D. The Marshall Plan.
[单项选择]1 What made Native American and European subsistence cycles so different from one another in colonial America had less to do with their use of plants than with their use of animals. Domesticated grazing animals and the plow were the most distinguishing characteristics of European agricultural practices. The Native Americans’ relationship to the deer, moose, and beaver they hunted was far different from that of the Europeans to the pigs, cows, sheep, and horses they owned.
2 Where Natives had contented themselves with burning the woods and concentrating their hunting in the fall and winter months, the English sought a much more total and year-round control over their animals’ lives. The effects of that control could be seen in most aspects of New England’s rural economy. By the end of the colonial period, the Europeans were responsible for a host of changes in the New England landscape: endless miles of fences, a system of country roads, and new fields covered with gr
A. They competed over the same plants and animals.
B. They both tried to control New England’s animals.
C. They taught each other techniques for hunting animals.
D. They differed in their attitudes toward animals.
[单项选择]The author of some forty novels, a number of plays, volumes of verse, historical, critical and autobiographical works, an editor and translator, Jack Lindsay is clearly an extraordinarily prolific writer--a fact which can easily obscure his very real distinction in some of the areas into which he bas ventured. His co editorship of Vision in Sydney in the early 1920’s, for example, is still felt to have introduced a significant period in Australian culture, while his study of Kickens written in 1950 is highly regarded. But of all his work it is probably the novel to which he has made his most significant contribution.
Since 1936 when, to use his own words in Fanfrolico and after, he "reached bedrock", Lindsay bas maintained a consistent Marxist viewpoint--and it is this viewpoint which if nothing else has guaranteed his novels a minor but certainly not negligible place in modern British literature. Feeling that "the historical novel is a form that bas a limitless future as a fighti
A. utterly negative.
B. obviously positive.
C. limited but indivisible.
D. obscure in net effect.
