2018高考浙江A篇阅读理解学词汇和语法.docxVIP

A In 1812 ，the year Charles Dickens was born ，there were 66 novels published in Britain.People had been writing novels for a century — most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719 — but nobody wanted to do it professionally.The steampowered printing press was still in its early stages ； the literacy( 识字 ) rate in England was under 50%.Many works of fiction appeared without the names of the authors ， often with something like “ By a lady. ” Novels ，for the most part ， were looked upon as silly ， immoral or just plain bad. In 1870 ， when Dickens died ， the world mourned him