单选题 The author mentions the "stump speech" in paragraph 2 as an example of

A、 an event created by politicians to attract media attention.
B、 an interactive discussion between two politicians.
C、 a kind of political presentation types of the nineteenth century.
D、 a style of speech common to televised political events.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查词义猜测。在“stump speech”(树桩演讲)这个术语的后面，有个非限定性定语从句“which characterized nineteenth-century political discourse(它具有19世纪政治演讲的特征)”，它就是对“stump speech”解释和说明，说明“stump speech”是19世纪典型的政治演讲的例子，因此选项[C]正确。