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一级二单元A卷： TRD-B1-A2 TRD-B1-A2-001 语境猜义 中 After 1785, the production of children’s books in the United States increased but remained largely reprints of British books, often those ___1___ by John Newbery. Ultimately, however, it was not the cheerful, commercial-minded Newbery, but Anglo-Irish author Maria Edgeworth who had the strongest influence on this period of American children’s literature. The eighteenth century had seen a gradual ___2___ away from the spiritual intensity of earlier American religious writings toward a more generalized moralism. Americans looked on children’s books as vehicles for instruction, not amusement, though they would accept a moderate amount of fictional entertainment for the ___3___ of more successful instruction. As the children’s book market expanded, what both public and publishers wanted was the kind of fiction Maria Edgeworth wrote: stories interesting enough to ___4___ children. American reaction against imported books for children set in after the War of 1812 with the British. A wave of nationalism permeated (渗透) everything, and the self-conscious new nation found foreign writings (particularly those from the British monarchy) ___5___ for the children of a democratic republic, a state of self-governing, equal citizens. Publishers of children’s books began to ___6___ American writers to write for American children. When they responded, the pattern established by Maria Edgeworth was at hand, ___7___ to most of them for both its rationalism(理性) and its high moral tone. Early in the 1820’s, stories of willful children learning to obey, of careless children learning to take care, of ___8___ children learning to “think for others,” started to flow from American presses, successfully achieving Edgeworth’s tone, though rarely her lively style. Imitative as they were, these early American ___9___ were quite distinguishable from their British counterparts. Few servants appeared in them, and if class distinc