Câu hỏi:
30/03/2020 1,007Read 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.
Herman Melville, an American author best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. He traveled extensively and used the knowledge gained during his travels as the basis for his early novels. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redburn (1849). In 1841 Melville set out on a whaling ship headed for the South Seas. After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahiti and Moorea. This South Sea island sojourn was a backdrop to the novel Omoo (1847). After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White-Jacket (1850) describes this lengthy voyage as a navy seaman.
With the publication of these early adventure novels, Melville developed a strong and loyal following among readers eager for his tales of exotic places and situations. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity started to diminish. Moby Dick, on one level the saga of the hunt for the great white whale, was also a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of man against the universe. The public was not ready for Melville's literary metamorphosis from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is ironic that the novel that served to diminish Melville's popularity during his lifetime is the one for which he is best known today.
According to the passage, Melville’s early novels were __________.
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Trả lời:
Đáp án D
Dịch: Theo bài viết, những cuốn tiểu thuyết đầu tiên của Melville
A. Được xuất bản khi ông đang trên đường di chuyển
B. Hoàn toàn là viễn tưởng
C. Tất cả đều là về công việc của ông khi còn trên tàu đánh cá voi
D. Dựa vào kinh nghiệm trong những chuyến đi của ông
Thông tin nằm ở đoạn 1: He travelled extensively and used the knowledge gathered during his travels as the basis for his early novels. (Ông đi rất nhiều và sử dụng kiến thức thu lượm được trong những chuyến đi để làm nền tảng cho những cuốn tiểu thuyết đầu tiên)
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