(第一段)American has always been a land of beginnings. After(在..之后) Europeans “ discovered”(发现) America in the fifteenth century(世纪), the mysterious(神秘的) New World became for many people a genuine(真正的，真诚的) hope of a new life, an escape from (逃避)poverty and persecution(迫害), a chance(机会) to start(开始) again(再次). We can say that, as nation, America begins with that hope. When, however, does American literature begin?
“that hope”就是指前一句中的a genuine hope of a new life/开始新生活的真诚希望。
2.D. 利用问题句及被选项中的特征词，细节信息词/结构(字体加粗，带有下划线)作为答案线索， 在文章中查找答案相关句：
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American has always been a land of beginnings.(第一题答案相关句) After Europeans “ discovered” America in the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine hope of a new life, an escape from poverty and persecution, a chance to start again. We can say that, as nation, America begins with that hope. When, however, does American literature begin?
American literature begins with (以...开始)American experiences(经历). Long before (早在...之前)the first colonists(殖民者) arrived, before Christopher Columbus, before the Northman who found America about year 1,000, Native Americans lived here. Each tribe's literature was tightly woven into the fabric of daily life and reflected the unmistakably American experience of lining with the land. Another kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement, found its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers sent home in Spain, French and English. In addition, the journals of the people who lived and died in the New England wilderness' tell unforgettable tales of hard end sometimes heartbreaking experiences of those early years.
从第2段第2句可知：很早以前， 本土美国人就居住在这里。既然前一句说“美国文学产生于美国人的生活经历”， 由此可知美国文学产生于很早以前就居住这里的本土美国人的生活经历，对比被选项判断只有D合适。
3.A. 利用问题句及被选项中的特征词，细节信息词/结构(字体加粗，带有下划线)作为答案线索， 在文章中查找答案相关句：
(第2题答案相关句) American literature begins with American experiences. Long before the first colonists arrived, before Christopher Columbus, before the Northman who found America about year 1,000, Native Americans lived here. Each tribe's literature was tightly(紧密地) woven (编织，编写)into the fabric(结构， 构架， 织物) of daily(每天的， 日常的) life and reflected(反映，反射) the unmistakably(明白地) American experience of lining with(给...加衬) the land(土地， 陆地). Another kind of experience, one filled with fear and excitement, found its expression in the reports that Columbus and other explorers sent home in Spain, French and English. In addition, the journals of the people who lived and died in the New England wilderness' tell unforgettable tales of hard end sometimes heartbreaking experiences of those early years.
根据答案相关句(第2段第3句)可知“从美洲土著部落的文学中， 我们可以找到他们日常生活的写照”。
4.D. 主旨题。 关注指定段落是否有段落主题词及段落主题句。
(观点句)Experience, then, is the key(关键) to early(早期的) American literature. The New World provided a great variety of experiences, and experiences demanded a wide variety of expressions by an even wider variety of early American writers. These writers included John Smith, who spent only two-and-a-half year: on the American, continent. They included Jonathan Edwards and William Byrd，who thought of themselves as British subjects, never suspecting a revolution that would create a United States of America with a literature of its own. American Indians, explorers, Puritan ministers, frontier wives, plantation owner一they are all the creators of the first American literature.
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