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Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book, Uncle

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问题    Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom’ s Cabin. But neither she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success. The publisher was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress.
   But when the first 5, 000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300, 000 copies in the United States and 150, 000 in England. For a while it outsold(销得比......多)every book in the world, except the Bible.
   Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America’ s most popular play for 80 years.
   It might appear that Uncle Tom’ s Cabin was universally popular, but this was certainly not true. Many people during those pre-Civil War days—particularly defenders of the slavery system—condemned it as false propaganda and poorly written melodrama (传奇剧作品).
   Harriet did have strong religious views against slavery (When asked how she came to write the book, she replied, "God wrote it. ") , and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong, so perhaps the book could be considered propaganda. But if so, it was true propaganda, because it accurately described the evils of slavery.
   Though she was born in Connecticut, 1832, as a young woman she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when her father accepted the presidency of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary(神学院). Ohio was a free state, but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Harriet saw slavery in action. She lived 18 years in Cincinnati, marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college. In 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe began her book.
   Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system. Today some historians (历史学家) think that it helped bring on the American Civil War.
   In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War, he said, "So, this is the little lady who started this big war. " [br] Hanrriet Beecher Stowe was able to describe the evils of slavery because______.
选项 A、she had lived for 18 years in a state where slavery was legal
B、she had suffered quite a lot under the slavery system
C、she had witnessed what happened under the slavery system
D、she had read a lot about the slavery system
答案 C
解析 推理题。根据文章第六段第一句可知，在她还是年轻女孩时，她搬到了俄亥俄州的辛辛那提市。根据第二句可知，俄亥俄州是一个自由州，但就在俄亥俄河对岸的肯塔基州，哈丽叶特看到了真实的奴隶制度。根据第三句可知，她在辛辛那提市生活了18年。选项A(她在奴隶制合法的州生活了18年)与文章内容不符，文中说辛辛那提市属于自由州。选项B(她在奴隶制下遭受了很多痛苦)和选项D(她读了许多关于奴隶制的书籍)文中没有提及。选项C(她目睹了奴隶制下奴隶的境遇)符合文意，故本题选C。
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