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  3. Between the two world wars, serious novelists and playwrights(剧作家) were read and appreciated mainly by people from middle and up

Between the two world wars, serious novelists and playwrights(剧作家) were read and appreciated mainly by people from middle and up

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问题 Between the two world wars, serious novelists and playwrights(剧作家) were read and appreciated mainly by people from middle and upperclass backgrounds, for these people had money and this gave them opportunities for education and leisure which were beyond the reach of the poorer classes. For the same reason, the writers tended to come from the same kind of background, although there were many exceptions. The novelist, D. H. Lawrence, for example, was the son of a miner. But Lawrence’s books were bought and read by middle-class readers, and the language which he used was literary, rather than popular.
    Lawrence, like other writers of the 1920s and 1930s—Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and the older men, George Bernard Shaw and John Galsworthy—was presenting his public with his own view of life. He was hoping to persuade his readers. to think like himself. Many of the serious writers of the period were concerned with social and political problems. Their plays and novels were full of arguments in favor of social reforms. They made amusing and often bitter comments on the injustices and absurdities (荒唐) of life—especially middle-class life. Some novelists gave horrible warnings about the kind of future that mankind might have to face. Huxley’s amusing Brave New World and Orwell’s frightening Nineteen Eight- y-four (written in the 1940s) are still taken very seriously by many young people today.
    Other writers, like Virginia Woolf and the Irishman, James Joyce, were more interested in thoughts and feelings than in social life, and they expressed their thoughts in a language which was sometimes extremely difficult to understand. At the same time there were plenty of novelists and playwrights whose only aim was to excite, to amuse and to move to tears! Not surprisingly, people tended to divide writers into two kinds—serious, or intellectual, and light, or non-intellectual.
Which of the following is NOT true?
选项 A、The language in Lawrence’s books was not appropriate for middle-class readers.
B、In his books, Bernard Shaw revealed his own view of life.
C、Serious writers advocated social reforms.
D、Nowadays many young people still appreciate some of the novels between 1920s and 1940s.
答案A
解析 第一段指出劳伦斯在作家中是个例外——他来自下层社会，是矿工的儿子，但中产阶级却爱读他的书，因为他使用的不是通俗语言，而是文学性语言，即受过教育的冲产阶级熟悉的语言。因此，选项A)不符；选项B)与第二段第1句话的内容相吻合；第二段指出，严肃作家对社会政治问题感兴趣，书中充斥着赞成社会改革的观点，因此可排除C)项；选项D)可以在第二段最后一句得到说明
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