The Beginning of American Literature American has always been a land of beginnings.【C1】______Europeans "discovered" America

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问题                 The Beginning of American Literature
    American has always been a land of beginnings.【C1】______Europeans "discovered" America in the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine hope of a new life, an escape from【C2】______and persecution, a chance to start again. We can say that, as nation, America begins with that hope.When,【C3】______, does American literature begin?
    American literature begins with American experiences.  Long before the first colonists arrived , before Christopher Columbus,  before the Northmen who" found" America about the year 1,000,【C4】______Americans lived here.  Each tribe’s literature was【C5】______woven into the fabric of daily life and reflected the unmistakably American experience of lining with the land.【C6】______kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement, found its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers【C7】______home in Spain, French and English. In addition, the journals of the people who lived and died in the New England wilderness tell unforgettable tales of hard and sometimes【C8】______experiences of those【C9】______years.
    Experience, then, is the key to early American literature. The New World【C10】______a great variety of experiences, and these experiences【C11】______a wide variety of expressions by an even wider variety of early American writers. These writers, included John Smith,【C12】______spent only two-and- a-half years on the American continent.They included Jonathan Edwards and William Byrd, who【C13】______of themselves as British subjects, never【C14】______a revolution that would create a United States of America with a literature of its own.American Indians, explorers, Puritan ministers, frontier wives, plantation owner—they are all the【C15】______of the first American literature.
【C5】

选项 A、loosely
B、densely
C、tightly
D、heavily

答案C

解析 空格所在分句的意思是每个部落的文学都紧密地交织到日常生活的构架中去。tightly严严实实,紧紧地;loosely松散地;densely浓密地;heavily沉重地。故选C。
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