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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.
Most of the rich people used to appreciate ______.
选项 A、realistic literature
B、romantic literature
C、funny circus
D、savage fighting
答案A
解析 第一段第1句可以说明，其中“严肃的小说家和剧作家”以及后面提及的劳伦斯说明这类作家是现实主义文学家。题目中rich people与句中people from middle and upper-class back- grounds相符；选项B)虽在最后一段有所涉及，但属次要内容，与题干中most of, mainly 不符；选项C)和D)文中没有涉及
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