[填空题]Part 3
Questions 1-7
Directions: Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C and D.
At the time Jane Austin’s novels were published — between 1811 and 1818 — English literature was not part of any academic curriculum. In addition, fiction was under strenuous attack. Certain religious and political groups felt novels had the power to make so-called immoral characters so interesting that young readers would identify with them; these groups also considered novels to be of little practical use. Even Cole ridge, certainly no literary reactionary, spoke for many when he asserted that "novel-reading occasions the destruction of the mind’s powers."
These attitudes toward novels help explain why Austin received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics. (In any case, a novelist published anonymously, as Austin was, would not be likely to receive much critical attention.) The li
A. A．emphasize the need for Jane Austin to create ordinary, everyday characters in her novels
B．contrast nineteenth-century attitudes toward English literature with those toward classical literature
C．give one reason why Jane Austin’s novels received little critical attention in the early nineteenth century
D．give support to those religious and political groups that had attacked fiction