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Tom left his hometown that day, ________ to make a large fortune in Las Vegas.


  1. A.
    determining
  2. B.
    determined
  3. C.
    to determine
  4. D.
    to be determined
B
determined的用法是(be)determined to do sth意思是“下定决心做某事”。
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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.
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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 lightskinned 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 (养育), 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.
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【小题1】 How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?

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.
【小题2】Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its ______.
A.target readers at the bottom
B.anti-slavery attitude
C.rather impolite language
D.frequent use of “nigger”
【小题3】What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author?
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.
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A.slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
B.slaves’ babies could pick up 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
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A.The attacks.B.Slavery and prejudice.
C.White men.D.The shows.
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B.Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.
C.Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.
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C.blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up

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A.The attacks.                            B.Slavery and prejudice.

C.White men.                            D.The shows.

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A.Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism.

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