[单项选择]The dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature is
A. World War Ⅰ.
B. the Great Depression.
C. World War Ⅱ.
D. the Civil War.

[单项选择]The traditional dividing line in America between "east" and "west" is
A. the Appalachians.
B. the Rockies.
C. the Mississippi River.
D. the Rio Grande River.

[单项选择]Notable’ as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced a "masculine" text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced a more realistic narrative portraying a world where men battle for the favors of apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce, though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship bet
A. defend a controversial interpretation of two novels
B. explain the source of widely recognized responses to two novels
C. delineate broad differences between two novels
D. compare and contrast two novels

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Notable’ as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced a "masculine" text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced a more realistic narrative portraying a world where men battle for the favors of apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce, though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions t
A. defend a controversial interpretation of two novels
B. explain the source of widely recognized responses to two novels
C. delineate broad differences between two novels
D. compare and contrast two novels

[单项选择]Nineteenth-century art critics judged art by the realism of its method of representation. It was assumed that the realistic method developed from primitive beginnings to the perfection of formal realism. It is one of the permanent gains of the aesthetic revolution of the twentieth century that we are rid of this type of aesthetics.
It can be inferred from the passage above that the artistic revolution of the twentieth century had which of the following effects
A. It deemphasized realistic representation as an evaluative consideration for judging works of art.
B. It permitted modern critics to appreciate the simplicity of primitive art.
C. It repudiated the realistic representation found in the art of the past.
D. It reinforced traditional ways of looking at and judging great art.
E. (E) It allowed art critics to understand the evolution and nature of art.

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Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, citizens of the United States maintained a bias against big cities. Most lived on farms and in small towns and believed cities to be centers of corruption, crime, poverty, and moral degradation. Their distrust was caused, in part, by a national ideology that proclaimed farming the greatest occupation and rural living superior to urban living. This attitude prevailed even as the number of urban dwellers increased and cities became an essential feature of the national landscape. Gradually, economic reality overcame ideology. Thousands abandoned the precarious life on the farm for more secure and better paying jobs in the city. But when these people migrated from the countryside, they carried their fears and suspicions with them. These new urbanites, already convinced that cities were overwhelmed with great problems, eagerly embraced the progressive reforms that promise
A. A comparison of urban and rural life in the early twentieth century
B. The role of government in twentieth-century urban renewal
C. Efforts to improve urban life in the early twentieth century
D. Methods of controlling urban growth in the twentieth century

[单项选择]According to this passage, the nineteenth century seems to be an age of ______.


A. enlightenment
B. literature
C. journals
D. homesteaders

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