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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.
The passage suggests that ______.
选项 A、people’s life in 1930s was absurd
B、some writers were so concerned with social life that they wrote in a strange way
C、Huxley’s only aim was to move the readers to tears
D、some writers lost heart when they thought of the future of man
答案D
解析 第二段第6句话说明作家们对人类的未来没有信心，而第7句中的frightening也可给以提示，因此，D)项正确。A)项中people’s life太笼统，文中只提到中产阶级的生活很荒唐；选项B)把两类作家混为一谈，文章指出，有些作家对社会问题感兴趣，另一些作家对思想感情感兴趣，并用一种难以理解的方式表达思想，即意识感；选项C)中，Huxley应属于严肃作家之列
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