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Being probably the most complex female character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ophelia deserves special attention because she is treated as a substitute for Stowe’s intended audience．Ophelia    __21_ what Mrs．Stowe, the author, considered a widespread Northern problem: the white person who opposes slavery but feels __22_ prejudice and hatred in the presence of a black slave．Ophelia hates slavery, but she considers it almost _23__ for blacks, against whom she harbors a deep-seated prejudice．And she doesn’t want them to touch her．Stowe stresses that much of Ophelia’s prejudice _24__ from unfamiliarity and ignorance rather than from actual _25__ Because Ophelia has seldom spent time along with __26_, she finds them uncomfortably alien （不相容） to her．

But Ophelia seems to be one of the only characters in the novel whose character _27__ as the story progresses．Once St．Clare puts Topsy in her care, Ophelia is forced to be in _28__ with a slave．At first she begins to teach Topsy __29_ out of duty．But Stowe suggests that duty alone will not root out slavery and that those against slavery must act out of love．Eva’s death leads to  Ophelia’s change, and she comes to love Topsy as an actual human being and not just a slave．She   _30__ her racial prejudice and offers herself as a model to Stowe’s Northern readers．

21．A．reflects B．supposes C．suspects D．provides

22．A．various B．arbitrary C．racial D．awful

23．A．impossible B．necessary C．unfair D．important

24．A．suffers       B．differs C．releases D．results

25．A．practice   B．performance C．experience D．application

26．A．slaves B．readers C．Stowe D．characters

27．A．increases B．disappears C．refreshes D．develops

28．A．trouble B．danger C．contact D．comparison

29．A．hardly B．merely C．specially D．properly

30．A．hides B．overcomes C．reserves D．prohibits

答案：21—25ACBDC  26—30ADCBB