tailieunhanh - Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia năm 2016 môn Tiếng Anh lần 1 - THPT Yên Lạc (Mã đề 207)

Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia năm 2016 môn Tiếng Anh lần 1 - THPT Yên Lạc (Mã đề 207) giúp cho các em học sinh củng cố được các kiến thức của môn học thông qua việc giải những bài tập trong đề thi. Tài liệu phục vụ cho các em học sinh lớp 12 và ôn thi đại học. | SỞ GD ĐT VĨNH PHÚC TRƯỜNG THPT YÊN LẠC Đề thi có 05 trang ĐỀ KHẢO SÁT CHẤT LƯỢNG LẦN 1 LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2015-2016 ĐỀ THI MÔN TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài 90 phút không kể thời gian giao đề Mã đề thi 207 Read the following passage and mark the letter A B C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. This rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century were accompanied by the development of a national literature of great abundance and variety. New themes new forms new subjects new regions new authors new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century. As a result at the onset of World War I the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York in the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. No longer was it produced at least in its popular forms in the main by solemn typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South no longer were polite well-dressed grammatically correct middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times no longer indeed were fiction poetry drama and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression no longer finally was literature read primarily by young middle class women. In sum American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for in 1867 in describing Leaves of Grass it treats he said of his own major work each state and region as peers and expands from them and includes the world . connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations. At the same time these years saw the emergence of what has been designated the literature of argument powerful works in sociology philosophy psychology many of them impelled by the spirit of exposure .