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共用题干 Tales of the Terrible PastIt is not the job of fiction writers to analy...

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Tales of the Terrible Past
It is not the job of fiction writers to analyze and interpret history.Yet by writing about the past in a vivid and compelling manner,storytellers can bring earlier eras to life and force readers to consider them seriously.Among those taking on the task of recounting history are some black writers who attempt to examine slavery from different points of view.
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison deals specifically with the legacy of slavery in her book Beloved.The main character in this novel,a former slave called Sethe,lives in Ohio in the years following the Civil War,but she cannot free herself from her horrific memories.Through a series of flashbacks and bitter reminiscences,the reader learns how and why Sethe escaped from the plantation she had lived on;the fate of her husband,who also tried.to escape;and finally,what happened to the child called Beloved.Morrison's scenes of torture and murder are vivid and strongly convey the desperation of the slaves and the cruelty of their owners.
Charles Johnson's Middle Passage approaches slavery from a different,yet no less violent,vantage point.His main character,Rutherford Calhoun,is a ne'er-do-well free black American who stows away on a slave ship bound for Africa to collect its"cargo".Put to work after he is discovered,Calhoun witnesses first- hand the appalling conditions in which the captured Africans are transported.When they finally rebel and take over the ship,he finds himself in the middle-and is forced to come to terms with who he is and what his values are.
Neither Beloved nor Middle Passage is an easy read,but both exemplify African American writers, attempts to bring significant historical situations alive for a modern audience.
选项 The word appalling in Paragraph 3 means______.
A:terrible
B:surprising
C:guilty
D:unrealistic
答案A
解析通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了Morrison的小说Beloved和Johnson的小说Middle Passage中关于奴隶制的主要内容，故选D。
由文章第二段第二句话“The main characters in this novel…lives in Ohio in the years followingthe Civil War.”可知，Beloved的背景设置在内战之后的俄亥俄州。故选C。
文章最后一段说到，这两部小说读起来都不轻松，但是它们都是非裔美国作家努力为现代观众重现重要历史的典范之作，由此可推断出作者觉得这些作品都是值得花费时间和精力去读并且很有挑战性的。故选B。
由文章第三段第一句话“Charles Johnson 's…from a different , yet no less violent , vantage point。”可知，Johnson的小说从另外一个角度来描写奴隶制，但同样充满着暴力。联系上文，这两部作品在对暴力的描写这一点上是相似的。故选D。
根据第三段中对运送非洲人去美国的描述可推测出，黑人奴隶们的境况必然是极为糟糕的。terrible糟糕的，与appalling（糟糕的，可怕的）意思相近。故选A0 surprising令人惊讶的；guilty有罪的；unrealistic不现实的。
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