The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the ______ Mississippi valley.
A. early 16th-century
B. late 16th-century
C. post-Civil War
D. pre-Civil War
参考答案:D
解析:主要考查的知识点为马克·吐温的小说人物汤姆和哈克的童年的象征意义。
汤姆和哈克在密西西比河上度过的童年是内战前该条河谷生活方式的实录,感动了全世界数以百万计的各个年龄段的人。