Tom in Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a _____.

Passage 2 Questions 1to 5 are based on the following passage:

Sometimes a book can help change history. One book that certainly did was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a book that spoke out against slavery.

As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her book, there were over3.5 million slaves in the United States. Slaves were usually in the cotton-growing states of the South. The Northern States has ended slavery. Yet most northerners were not strongly against slavery. They did not mind that slavery continued in the South.

Stowe decided to make people understand that slavery was very bad. Each night after putting r six children to bed, she worked on her book. She told the owner. She also told how the slaves tried to run away for freedom. Uncle Tom’s Cabin first came in 1852. Over 300,000 books were sold out in a year.

People had different ideas about the book. In the North, many people finally believed that slavery must be ended after they read the book. In the South, many people were very angry at the people in the North. By 1861 the two parts of the country were at war. The Civil War, which lasted until of cease, was made to happen by many things. Yet Uncle Tom’s Cabin surely played a part. Stowe met President Linclon in 1862. As Linclon took her hand, he said, “So you are the woman who starred the big war.”

1、Before Uncle Tom’s Cabin came out, most Northerners ______.

A、were slaves in the South

B、did not know how bad slavery was

C、kept slaves in their homes

D、understood that slavery was wrong

2、While many Northerners agreed with Harriet Beacher Stowe,______.

A、many southerners wanted war

B、many southerners had not read the boo

C、many southerners were angry at her

D、some slaves tried to run away from North

3、From the text, we can infer that _______.

A、Stowe was a very young woman

B、Stowe’s husband was dead when she wrote the story

C、Stowe wrote her book with stories from her six children

D、Stowe could not work on her book at all during the daytime

4、Uncle Tom’s Cabin was _______.

A、a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe

B、a history book

C、a book that helped change history

D、a book about the American Civil war

5、Harriet Beecher Stowe _______.

A、was a little woman who started the American Civil War together with Abraham Linclon

B、was strongly against the slavery

C、helped some slaves to run away from the South

D、met Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War

A. Mark Twain

B. William Dean Howells

C. Bret Harte

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

The pen is more powerful than the sword （剑). There have been many writers who used their

The pen is more powerful than the sword (剑). There have been many writers who used their pens to fight things that were wrong. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them. She was born in the USA in 1811. One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freezing the slaves. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won. This book was named "Uncle Toms Cabin". There was time when every English-speaking man, woman, and child has read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting. The book has shown us how a warm-hearted writer can arouse (唤起) peoples sympathies (同情). The writer herself had neither been to the Southern States nor been a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the novel, which they said did not at all represent (代表) true state of affairs,but the Northern Americans were wildly excited over it, and were so inspired by it that they were ready to go to war to let the slaves free.

1.How old was Mrs. Stowe when her world famous book was published？ （）

A、About 60 years old

B、Over 50 years old

C、In her forties

D、Around 30 years old

2.Why could Mrs. Stowe's book cause a civil war in America？ （）

A、She wrote so well that Americans loved her very much

B、She disclosed (揭露) the terrible wrongs that had been done to the slaves in the Southern States

C、The Southern Americans hated the book while the Northern Americans like it

D、The book had been read by many Americans

3.What can we learn from the passage？ （）

A、We needn't use weapons (武器) to fight things that are wrong

B、writer is more helpful in a war than a soldier

C、We must understand the importance of literature and art

D、No war can be won without such a book as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

4.What do you learn about Mrs. Stowe from the passage？ （）

A、She had been living in the north of America before the American Civil War

B、She herself encouraged the northern Americans to go to war and set the slaves free

C、She was better as writing as using a sword

D、She had once been a slave

5.According to the passage（）.

A、every English-speaking person had read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

B、"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was not very interesting

C、those who don't speak English can not have read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

D、the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" did a great deal in the American Civil War

He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he？

A. Richard Wright

B. Harriet Beecher Stowe

C. Langston Hughes

D. Ralph Ellison

_______ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.

A. Richard Wright

B. Harriet Beecher Stowe

C. Langston Hughes

D. Ralph Ellison

A.A.she had lived for 18 years in a state where slavery was legal

B.B.she had suffered quite a lot under the slavery system

C.C.she had witnessed what happened under the slavery system

D.D.she had read a lot about the slavery system

the world.

A．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B．The Sea Wolf

C．Uncle Tom' s Gabin

D．Song of Myself

A.Martin Eden

B.Uncle Tom’s Cabin

C.White Fang

D.The Call of the Wild

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