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2．Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel．And he surely deserves additional praise：the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism．
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War．H．B．Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is only the most famous example．These early stories dealt directly with slavery．With minor exceptions，Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely．He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story．
Again and again，in the postwar years，Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race．Consider the most controversial，at least today，of Twain's novels，Adventures of Huckleberry Finn．Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn，Twain's most widely read tale．Once upon a time，people hated the book because it struckthemas rude．Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel"trash and suitable only for the slums（貧民窟）．"More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim，the escaped slave，and many occurrences of the word nigger．（The term Nigger Jim，for which the novel is often severely criticized，never appears in it．）
But the attacks were and are silly-and miss the point．The novel is strongly anti-slavery．Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic．As J．Chadwick has pointed out，the character of Jim was a first in American fiction-a recognition that the slave had two personalities，"the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual：Jim，the father and the man．"
There is much more．Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day．Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior （低等的） to whites，especially in intelligence，Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth．A slave gave birth to her master's baby and，for fear that the child should be sold South，switched him for the master's baby by his wife．The slave's light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class．The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave．
The point was difficult to miss：nurture （養(yǎng)育），not nature，was the key to social status．The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice-manner of speech，for example-were，to Twain，indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims．
Twain's racial tone was not perfect．One is left uneasy，for example，by the lengthy passage in his autobiography （自傳） about how much he loved what were called"nigger shows"in his youth-mostly with white men performing in black-face-and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them．Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality．His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not．
 Was Twain a racist？Asking the questioning the 21 stcentury is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln．If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the"wisdom"of the considered moral judgments of the present，we will find nothing but error．Lincoln，who believed the black man the inferior of the white，fought and won a war to free him．And Twain，raised in a slave state，briefly a soldier，and inventor of Jim，may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century．

65．How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowes？B
A．Twain was more willing to deal with racism．
B．Twain's attack on racism was much less open．
C．Twain's themes seemed to agree with plots．
D．Twain was openly concerned with racism．
66．Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from itsD．
A．target readers at the bottom                                    
B．a(chǎn)nti slavery attitude
C．rather impolite language                                                
D．frequent use of"nigger"
67．What best proves Twain's anti slavery stand according to the author？C
A．Jim's search for his family was described in detail．
B．The slave's voice was first heard in American novels．
C．Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture．
D．Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent．
68．The story of two babies switched mainly indicates thatC．
A．slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
B．slaves babies could pickup slave holders‵way of speaking
C．blacks‵social position was shaped by how they were brought up
D．blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
69．What does the under lined word"they"in Paragraph 7 refer toD？
A．The attacks．
B．Slavery and prejudice．
C．White men．
D．The shows．
70．What does the author mainly argue for？A
A．Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism．
B．Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln．
C．Twain's works had been banned on unreasonable grounds．
D．Twain s works should be read from a historical point of view．

Answer 1

分析 本篇為說明文，談到馬克•吐溫的小說是不是對奴隸制和種族偏見進行了抨擊，以及它們受到了不同人士的批評的情況．

解答 65．B．推理判斷題．由第二段的…Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely．可知，馬克•吐溫的小說表面上完全是談其他事情，而實際上故事中植入了對奴隸制和種族偏見的抨擊．其他早期小說用的是直接抨擊方式（dealt directly with slavery）．因此B項說他的小說對種族歧視的抨擊非常不明顯是恰當?shù)�，由此排除C、D兩項；由第三段第一句中的"forced"可知A項不對．故選B．
66．D．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)關(guān)鍵詞Adventures of Huckleberry Finn可定位到第三段．由More recently the book has been attacked because of…many occurences of the word nigger．可知，目前最近的書存在的攻擊是由于逃跑的奴隸，和許多出現(xiàn)下層人的單詞．答案為D項．A、C項都是以前人們對該書的評價；B項無依據(jù)．故選D．
67．C．細節(jié)理解題．由第四段的末句…the character of Jim was a first in American fiction-a recognition that the slave had two personalities…可知，吉姆是馬克吐溫筆下美國首個具有雙重人格的奴隸，可證明馬克吐溫的立場．A、D項敘述與原文不符；B項未提及．故選C．
68．C．推理判斷題．第五段講到Twain's mystery novel…as a challenge to the racial beliefs…，（吐溫的小說，具有民族觀念的挑戰(zhàn)．）而下一段的The point was difficult to miss：nurture（養(yǎng)育），not nature，was the key to social status．（不自然，養(yǎng)育是社會地位的關(guān)鍵）是對a challenge to the racial beliefs 的進一步解釋．故只有C項符合要求．其他各項都是對第五段的字面意思的理解．故選C．
69．D．詞義猜測題．由畫線詞所在句的前一句可知，沒有理由認為馬克•吐溫把這些表演當作現(xiàn)實，后句緊接著解釋到：馬克•吐溫對奴隸制和偏見的不斷抨擊說明了他敏銳的意識--它們不是現(xiàn)實．可見they就是指代the shows．故選D．
70．A．推理判斷題．最后一段最后一句：And Twain…may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice…than any other novelist in the past century．可知，吐溫在自己的作品中，在種族歧視表現(xiàn)了更多的憤怒．這也同時表明作者的觀點．只有A項符合要求．故選A．

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