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Hard Times, Charles Dickens’ shortest novel, was written and published in 18
Hard Times, Charles Dickens’ shortest novel, was written and published in 18
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Hard Times, Charles Dickens’ shortest novel, was written and published in 1854. Despite the sensational success of its two immediate predecessors, David Copperfield and Bleak House, and its immediate successors, Little Dorritt and A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times seems to have been Dickens’ least popular novel during his own lifetime and subsequently. One critic speculated that editorial cuts imposed on the novel for serialization were responsible. However, as Jane Jacobs points out, Hard Times was serialized in Household Words, a periodical that Dickens not only founded but edited. Part of the reason for the book’s relative unpopularity may have been its despairing message, its depiction of pervasive emptiness in almost everything life has to offer, from marriage and family to success and community. Jacobs also suggests that the book’s structure may have played a role: action is slow and scant throughout, and descriptions and conversations during the first two thirds of the book are repetitious. While the book’s tone changes abruptly in the last section, when Dickens, the master storyteller, jogs his characters into life by enmeshing them in convoluted coils of plot, the reader must first endure the tedious way in which Dickens establishes the novel’s settings and characters. [br] The passage suggests which of the following about the last section of Hard Times?
选项
A、The last section compares unfavorably with the first part of the book in terms of literary quality.
B、In the last section the settings are presented in a more tedious fashion than is the case in other Dickens’ works mentioned in the passage.
C、In the last section the characters tend to be more optimistic than they are in the first part of the book
D、The last section is atypical of Dickens’ general storytelling style.
E、The last section would be more likely to appeal to readers than would the first part of the book
答案
E
解析
根据最后一句可以推出本书的最后一部分是更加吸引读者的,选项E正确。A项表述相反,最后一部分是这本书写得最好的部分。B项表述相反,这本书的前半部分才冗长。C项看不出角色是否乐观。D项无法得知狄更斯总体的故事风格是怎样的。
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