【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文]

American Literature: Mark Twain

Professor: Today we are going to discuss the life of Mark Twain. Do you know who he is?
Student: Yeah. Everyone has heard about him! He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , didn"t he?
Professor: Right.
Student: Well, I don"t know all the books, but he was a newspaper reporter and he wrote different things like historical fiction, travel books, religious fiction and short stories, right?
Professor: And...? That"s it? OK. Well, you"re about to learn some more things that are less talked about. Did you know he was a thorn in the U.S. government"s side? Surprised? Well, Mark Twain was his pen name. He was actually born Samuel Clemens. And, today you are going to learn about Mark Twain and his activities in the Anti-Imperial League.
Student: Really? He was friends with Roosevelt and other politicians. I read about it.
Professor: Oh, he was a rebel, a rebel with a cause. He more than belonged to the League. He was the Vice President from 1901-1910. Let"s start at the beginning. The League was the first of its kind in the U.S. and was formed in reaction to the outcome of the Spanish-American war in 1898. Basically, Spain turned over colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific to the U.S. as the loser in a settlement. It was called "The Treaty of Paris" . It named Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Twain supported the U.S. in the beginning but did a turn-about-face when he learned about the terms of the treaty. He believed it was just a way for U.S. expansion. Twain was in Europe at the time of the Spanish-American war and returned to the U.S. in 1900. He was always ready to tell how he felt about the treaty. He campaigned fiercely against Imperialism by making speeches, writing articles and after sending "A Salutation Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth Century" to the League as well as the New York Herald, he became the Vice President of the League. In a nutshell, be believed that the U.S. could not be both an empire and a republic at the same time. Twain admired Emilio Aguinaldo tremendously, and what he was all about.
Student: Who was he?
Professor: Well, he was a Filipino rebel. He wanted freedom for his country. He organized rebellions against the Spanish and was exiled by them m Hong Kong before the war. When the war started, he went back to the Philippines thinking the U.S. was going to help free the Philippines. Wrong! I don"t think he realized that the U.S. wanted the Philippines for its own. In the end, the U.S. kept the Philippines. The U.S. criticized the Spanish for having concentration camps in Cuba and used it as propaganda against them. Then they turned around and did the same thing—open concentration camps in the Philippines, This is what got on Twain"s nerves. Anyway, Twain was thoroughly displeased by the whole thing. When he went back to the U.S. in 1901 he published To the Person Sitting in the Darkness . This had a great impact on the war and the government"s dishonesty. It came to be the League"s most popular publication. That same year, he did it again and signed a July 4th address To the American People . This was published in newspapers everywhere and did not make politicians happy.
In 1902, he signed a petition to the Senate that made it dear that he knew all about concentration camps, and that he was against them. He thought it might help stop the hostile U.S.-Philippine negotiations. And in 1903, Twain was active in helping the League protest how they treated Filipinos in their own country. Does that surprise you about Twain? He was involved with the Anti-Imperial League until his death in 1910. There was a lot more to Twain than Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Firm.

[解析] 教授说关于马克·吐温，让人吃惊的是，美西战争以后，他对美国的行动展开了积极的反抗活动(his activities in the Anti-Imperial League)。他曾经担任过反帝国联盟的副主席。