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OFFICIAL50 What does the professor imply about literature in the United States prior to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

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[00:03.00]NARRATOR: Listen to part of a lecture in a United States literature class. [00:07.55]The professor is discussing realism.
[00:11.16]MALE PROFESSOR: Ok,everyone, [00:12.50]in our last class we finished up Romanticism, right? [00:16.30]So now let’s look at something completely different. [00:19.00]Realism as a literary technique was most popular in U.S. literature from around 1860 till 1890. [00:26.50] So it started pretty much around the time of the Civil War. [00:30.99]And I think you'll see right away how it's different from Romanticism, or any other kind of literature. [00:36.72] It has a very specific point that makes it unique, [00:39.83]and that is that it shows people as they are, and gets you to look at them, and also, you know, the things that need to be changed in a society. [00:47.78] And it does it without being sentimental, not in that sort of overly emotional way, the way that Romantic literature can. [00:56.16] Realism tells it like it is.
[00:58.87]Let's look at society as a whole. [01:00.77]In the late 1800s, people were interested in the scientific method, as well as rational philosophy—which, uh, says that people can discover the truth by using reason and factual analysis. [01:13.27]So, reason and facts, OK.[01:16.27]And at the same time that realism was becoming popular there were a lot of political and socioeconomic changes happening in the country. [01:24.41]There was, uh, increased literacy, plus the growth of industrialism and urbanization, growth in population from immigration, and a rise in middle-class affluence. [01:38.10]All these factors, combined with the importance of reason and facts, meant that readers were interested in really having a good understanding of all these uh, changes, the changes going on in society. [01:51.62] A scholar named Amy Kaplan says, and I'm just paraphrasing here, that realism is a way to understand and deal with social change. Which makes a lot of sense, I think.[02:02.76]So, then, let’s take a closer look at the tricks of the trade, at how realist writers did their work. [02:09.85]For one thing, as we said, they focus on— big surprise—reality. And in great detail. [02:16.96]They aim for verisimilitude—[02:19.10] should I write that on the board?
[02:20.66]FEMALE STUDENTS & MALE STUDENTS: um-hms.
[02:21.67]MALE PROFESSOR: Ok.[02:23.45] Verisimilitude means, basically, to seem true or real. Like, say, a photograph, rather than a painting, in a way. [02:32.14]In fact, that's a good analogy. [02:34.54] You see, writers tried to capture a moment in time, and all its basic facts, but without exaggeration, just like a camera does.
[02:43.08]Anyway, the events, the things that happen in realist literature, are usually pretty much plausible, [02:49.99]I mean, you figure they could probably happen to anyone. [02:53.21] And the characters are believable too, [02:56.04]and actually, they're usually even more important than the plot. [02:59.54] They're also uh… they talk the way that real people talk, authentic speaking styles from different regions… different parts of the country were captured in the text. [03:11.06]Does that make sense?…[03:12.02]OK.
[03:13.70]So, besides verisimilitude, another important characteristic of realism is the narrator's objectivity. [03:21.41]Characters and events are described without the narrator's passing much judgment on them or anything, or being too dramatic. [03:28.80]Basically, you're reading a story without too much extra comment from the narrator.[03:33.12]OK. Now, we have an idea of what realism was. [03:37.73]So, who were the players? [03:40.22] Well, two important realist novelists were Rebecca Harding Davis and Mark Twain.[03:46.08] We’ll talk more about other realists tomorrow, [03:50.16] but for today let's just start by looking briefly at these two.
[03:53.71]Rebecca Harding Davis was an author and journalist who, like other realists, was concerned about all those social changes going on. [04:02.45] She wrote mainly about some marginalized groups of the time, like women, Native Americans, uh, immigrants. [04:09.65] Now, her best-known book is a novella called Life in the Iron Mills. [04:14.69]It's really a key text because it's one of the original realist works. [04:19.54] Her works overall have been pretty much ignored for a long time, [04:23.62] but some critics and scholars are starting to revisit them and study them more seriously, [04:28.66]probably more for the historical aspects of the works, and... and I think that’s great.
[04:34.68]But if we're talking about great literature, literature that's read and enjoyed today... as something more than just a way of looking at that era, the era when it was written, [04:44.64] well, a favorite of mine is Mark Twain. [04:47.90]I'm sure you've read or heard of his most famous book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. [04:53.42]And Twain's style… it goes back to what I said earlier, verisimilitude, the realistic way characters act and talk. [05:02.50]You should realize too that this was quite a contrast to earlier writers in the U.S. who tried to emulate British writers, tried to be very elegant—at the expense of realism. [05:13.63] Y'know, a lot of critics will tell you that American literature began with that book—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

6.What does the professor imply about literature in the United States prior to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

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此题出处是: Professor: But if we are talking about great literature, literature that’s read and enjoyed today as something more than just a way of looking at that era, the era when that was written. Well, a favorite of mind is Mark Twain. I’m sure you have read and heard of his most famous book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And Twain’s style, he goes back to xxxxxxxx, verisimilitude, the realistic way actors acted and talked. You should realize too that this was quite a contrast to earlier writers in the U.S., who try to emulate the British Writers, try to be very elegant, at the expanse of Realism. You know, a lot of critics will tell you that American literature began with that book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 教授讲座的最后一段是此题的出题点。这里教授主要讲的是在马克吐温之前,现实主义作者写作的时候还是会去模仿英国文学那种华丽辞藻,但是从马克吐温之后,美国现实主义文学开始摆脱英国文学的影响,有了自己的现实主义风格。选项A符合原文意思。选项B说当时出版的书很少,选项C说浪漫主义和现实主义开始融合,选项D说英国作家比美国作家更多地使用现实主义手法,都不符合原文。选择A。

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