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The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each que
The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each que
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The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following the passage on the basis of what is
stated
or
implied
in the passage.
While most people agree that the Golden Age of comic books began with the introduction of Superman in 1938 in Action Comics #1, there is less agreement about when exactly the Golden Age ended. There is a general consensus, however, about the factors that brought the Golden Age to a close: the rise of the horror comic book in the late 1940s, and the resulting backlash against comic books in the early 1950s.
Superhero comic books reached their peak of popularity in the early 1940s because of all the GIs in Europe and Japan who eagerly read about Superman, Batman, and The Spirit. When these soldiers came home, they still wanted to read comic books, but they sought out more adult content. William Gaines of EC Comics was happy to meet the market demand with such grim and gritty titles as Weird Fantasy and The Crypt of Terror. The creators of superhero comic books, not wanting to be left behind, responded by matching their protagonists against darker criminals in more violent encounters.
These darker comic books aroused the anger of child psychologist Fredric Wertham, who believed that comic books were leading the nation’s youth into crime, violence, and drug abuse. Wertham’s book, The Seduction of the Innocent, was a national best-seller that helped bring about congressional investigations into the corrupting influence of comic books. The Senate committee that reviewed Wertham’s charges decided to create the Comics Code Authority, a regulatory body that prohibited comic books from mentioning sexuality, alcohol, drugs, criminal behavior, or any themes related to the horror genre.
These regulations had a numbing effect on the industry. EC Comics was nearly driven out of the comics business, and the other major players canceled many of their most prominent titles. The comics business did not recover until the Marvel revolution of the early 1960s ushered in the Silver Age.
According to the passage, what can we infer to be the central message of Fredric Wertham’s The Seduction of the Innocent?
选项
A、Adults reading violent comic books were as likely to be corrupted by them as young people were.
B、The horror comic books of the late 1940s were inferior to the superhero comic books that gained popularity during World War Ⅱ.
C、Comic books were leading the nation’s youth into crime, violence, and drug abuse.
D、Creating a regulatory board to censor the comic book industry would drive the worst offenders out of the business.
E、Comic books would never be able to convey stories of any serious literary merit.
答案
C
解析
The sentence preceding the mention of Wertham’s book states that he believed that comic books "were leading the nation’s youth into crime, violence, and drug abuse."
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