单选题
A. The war was rapidly reflected in American literature. B. The war was hardly reflected in American literature. C. Hemingway was the only author to write about the war. D. American literature was slow to reflect the war.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文] Although important events often reflect themselves quickly in literature of a country, the effect of World War I on American writing was delayed. The war promptly produced some mediocre prose and poetry, but distinguished work—mainly in the form of novels—appeared only some years later. The best came from Ernest Hemingway. He had already written some very good short stories and one first-class novel—The Sun Also Rises. But he did not publish a novel fully involved with the war until 1929. It proved worth waiting for. The onset of the Great Depression, on the other hand, was rapidly mirrored in American literature, especially in novels, and during the ten years after the Depression started, much writing dealt with it. One of the best of these novels was John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. But the arrival of the Depression little affected Hemingway's attitudes. During the 1930s, he continued to publish novels and short stories. They dealt with a variety of subjects but customarily revealed his high view of courage. The brave did not always survive in his fiction but they lived their lives to the fullest. It was not until the late 1930s that reference to the Depression crept into Hemingway's writing and, even then, its influence was indirect.
Q: What does the passage say about the effect of World War I on American literature?
单选题
A. He was not affected at all. B. He was greatly affected and wrote some first-class works dealing with it. C. It had little and indirect influence on Hemingway's writing. D. He didn't publish stories during the Great Depression.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文] Q: How did the Great Depression affect Hemingway's writing?
[解析] 信息明示题。文中直接提到了But the arrival of the Depression little affected Hemingway's attitudes，最后还说its influence was indirect，故选C。
单选题
A. John Steinbeck. B. Hemingway. C. The passage didn't mention. D. A certain poet.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] Q: Who wrote the best novels dealing with World War I?
[解析] 信息明示题。由关键词the best, Ernest Hemingway, first-class novel—The Sun Also Rises可知，B正确。文中也提到John Steinbeck的The Grapes of Wrath是反映大萧条的最优秀的小说。
单选题
A. The great works of Hemingway and John steinbeck. B. World War I and literature. C. A history of American literature. D. The effects of World War I and the Great Depression on American literature.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文] Q: What's the passage mainly about?
[解析] 主旨题。听罢全文，选出文章大意应该不难，历史大事就提到了一战和经济大萧条，其次就是美国文学，只要选出最概括的选项即可。 [考点] worth意为“值…的，价值…的”，如：It isn't worth waiting for him.不值得等他。/a car worth $20,000一辆价值2万美元的小汽车。