2013_2018高考英语试题分项版解析专题13：人物传记故事类.docx

专题13 人物传记、故事类 2018年高考题A【2018 ·浙江卷】 In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain. People hadbeenwriting novels for a century —mostexperts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoein 1719— but nobody wanted to do it professionally. The steam-powered printing press was still in itsearly stages;theliteracy （识字） rate in England wasunder50%. Many works of fiction appearedwithout the names of the authors, often with somethin g like “By a lady. ”Novels, for the most part, were looked upon as silly, immoral, or just plain bad. In 1870, whenDickens died, theworld mourned him asits first professional writer and publisher, famousandbeloved, whohadled anexplosion in both the publication of novels andtheir readership andwhosecharacters — from Oliver Twist toTiny Tim — were held up as moral touchstones. Today Dickens’ greatness is unchallenged. Removinghimfrom the pantheon（名人堂） of English literature would make about as much sense as the Louvre sellingoffthe Mona Lisa. How did Dickens get to the top? For all the feelings readers attach to stories, literatureis a numbers game, andthe test of time is extremely difficult to pass. Some60,000 novels were published during the Victorian age, from 1837to1901; today acasual reader might beable to name ahalf-dozen ofthem. It ’s partly truethatDickens ’ style of writing attractedaudiences from all walks of life. It’spartly that his writings rode a waveof social, political and scientific progress.Butit ’s also that he rewrote the culture of literature and put himself at thecenter. No one will ever know what mix of talent, ambition, energy and luck made Dickens such a singular thwriter. But as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches, itispossible — and important for ourownculture — to understand how he made himself a lastingone. th Which of the following best describes British novels inthe18 century? They were difficult tounderstand. They were popular among therich. They were seen as