[单项选择]Science fiction is called a literary sub-genre because__________.


A. it is not important enough to be a literary genre
B. it cannot be made into a dramatic presentation
C. it has its limits
D. it shares characteristics with other types of prose fiction

[单项选择]Science fiction is called a literary subgenre because ______.


A. it is not important enough to be a literary genre
B. it cannot be made into a dramatic presentation
C. it shares characteristics with other types of prose fiction
D. it has its limits

[单项选择]The essential elements of science fiction include


A. a narrator, a plot, environment
B. a story, surroundings, heroes
C. a narrator, a story, theme
D. a narrator, a story, a plot, character, setting, language

[单项选择]The view of science fiction encouraged by pulp magazines, which may be wrong, is nevertheless__________.


A. popular
B. elegant
C. fashionable
D. deranged

[单项选择]It is a common theme in many science fiction stories that the world may one day be ______ by insects.
A. broken in
B. run over
C. taken over
D. filled in

[单项选择]Most science - fiction writers seek to persuade readers that the world they have created is ______ and is derived from scientific principles.


A. possible
B. impossible
C. certainly
D. unlikely

[单项选择]Which of the followings can be called science fiction


A. Human beings living together with dinosaurs.
B. Description of universe.
C. Clone.
D. Story of God.

[单项选择]All of the following are major figures of literary modernism EXCEPT


A. James Joyce.
B. Charles Lamb.
C. S. Eliot.
D. Virginia Woolf.

[单项选择]Despite an overlay of quasi-literary French vocabulary stemming from the Norman Invasion of 1066, the daily vocabulary of English remained Germanic, ______ its grammatical structure.
A. the same as
B. and so are
C. as did
D. and so were

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Text 3
Is the literary critic like the poet, responding creatively, intuitively, subjectively to the written word as the poet responds to human experience Or is the critic more like a scientist, following a series of demonstrable, verifiable steps, using an objective method of analysis
For the woman who is a practitioner of feminist literary criticism, the subjectivity versus objectivity, or critic-as-artist-or-scientist, debate has special significance; for her, the question is not only academic, but political as well, and her definition will provoke special risks whichever side of the issue it favors. If she defines feminist criticism as objective and scientific—a valid, verifiable, intellectual method that anyone, whether man or woman, can perform—the definition not only makes the critic-as-artist approach impossible, but may also hinder accomplishment of the utilitarian political objectives of those who seek to change the academic establishm
A. To forge a new theory of literary criticism.
B. To pursue truth in a disinterested manner.
C. To demonstrate that women are interested in literary criticism that can be viewed either subjectively or objectively.
D. To convince the academic establishment to revise the ways in which it assesses women scholars' professional qualities.

[单项选择]As a philosophical and literary movement, ______flourished ill New England from the 1830s to CMl War.


A. modernism
B. rationalism
C. sentimentalism
D. transcendentalism

[单项选择]Assumptions are important for critical readers because they can help readers to ______.


A. grasp the topic exactly
B. understand the argument passage exactly
C. evaluate the argument passage
D. compare the argument passage with similar argument passages

[单项选择]One businessman was afraid to answer questions because ______.


A. he thought(认为，考虑)he had little knowledge(知识，知道)
B. he has a businessman
C. he was not a teacher

[单项选择]Disguised as fiction, novels are sometimes ______ accounts of actual.
A. veracious
B. venial
C. venal
D. veritable

[单项选择]Teenagers favor e-cards over traditional cards because ______.
A) it's easy to keep them C) they are as cheap as paper cards
B) it's not difficult to get them D) they are as traditional as paper cards