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"On the road" by Jack Kerouac
In the postwar United States, a generation of middle-class youth didn't want to follow the societal pathways of their parents based on materialistic goals and to 30.___________ rainbows. Instead, they 31.___________ a spontaneous form of existence in their quest to find true meaning in life. In other words, they went off the beaten 32.___________. Some of them became known as "beats": a collective of poets and writers, who sought spiritual refuge and excess in alcohol and drugs; they also delighted in jazz.
In the 1950s, tales of the beat movement's free lifestyle and reckless ways shocked the mainstream society, and their writings signaled a shift in American literature. Due to the publishing of the novel "On the Road" in 1957, its author, Jack Kerouac, 33.___________ the reputation as the leading beat novelist. "On the Road" details a series of Kerouac's long 34.___________ that he took between 1947 and 1950.
The narrative form of "On the Road", which Kerouac referred to as "spontaneous prose," was inspired by an 18-page typed letter that he received in December 1950 from his friend Neal Cassady. 35.___________ to Kerouac, the key to the prose was to write swiftly and "without consciousness," allowing the mind to flow freely, associating sights, sounds, and senses in a narrative of absolute immediacy.
Kerouac took 36.___________ writing his novel "On the Road" in 1951 and finished it in a three-week period. The result was a manuscript in wildly creative, original prose that came to define the beat generation.
**30.**1) pursue 2) chase 3) hunt 4) run after
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**31.**1) adopted 2) accepted 3) admitted 4) agreed
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32. 1) road 2) street 3) track 4) way
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33. 1) received 2) earned 3) created 4) undertook
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34. 1) tours 2) trips 3) voyages 4) journeys
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35. 1) Concerning 2) Regarding 3) Including 4) According
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36. 1) over 2) up 3) off 4) on
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