The novel Emma is written by （）.

A:Mary Shelley B:Charlotte Bronte C:Elizabeth Gaskell D:Jane Austen

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With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject-matter and widely- varying method of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of the traditional novel.
The detective story is probably the most respectful (at any in the narrow sense of word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of University dons, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, which is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizable human and consistent as our less intimate associates. As story set in a more remote environment, African jungle or Australian bush, ancient China or gas-lit London, appeals to our interest in geography or history, most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic back- ground. The elaborate, carefully-assembled plot, despised by the modern intellectual critics and creators of significant novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery, with its sprinkling of clues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of escapism from Real Life nagging gently, we secretly delight in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human detective, who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has hovered so unjustly over the innocent.
Though its villain also receives his rightful deserts, the thriller presents a less comfortable and credible world. The sequence of fist fights, revolver duels, car crashes and escaped from gas-filled cellars exhausts the reader far more than the hero, who, suffering from at least two broken ribs, one black eye, uncountable bruises and a hangover, can still chase and overpower an armed villain with the physique of a wrestler. He moves dangerously through a world of merciless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money and, in contrast to the detective tale, with a great criminal whose defeat seems almost accidental. Perhaps we miss in the thriller the security of being safely led by our calm investigator past a score of red herrings and blind avenues to a final gathering of suspects when an unchallengeable explanation of all that has bewildered us is given justice and goodness prevail. All that we vainly hope for from life is granted vicariously.

A:a not quite respectable form of the conventional novel. B:not a tree novel at all. C:related in some ways to the historical novel. D:an independent development of the novel.

"The news hit the British High Commission in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday morning. Sandy Woodrow took it like a bullet, jaw rigid, chest out, smack through his divided English heart." Crikey. So that’s how you take a bullet. Poor old Sandy. His English heart must be really divided now. This deliriously hardboiled opening sets the tone for what’s to come. White mischief Pshaw! White plague, more like it.
Sandy Woodrow is head of chancery at the British High Commission in Nairobi. The news that neatly subdivides his heart as the novel opens is the death of a young, beautiful and idealistic lawyer turned aid worker named Tessa Quayle. Tessa has been murdered for learning too much about the dishonest practices of a large pharmaceutical company operating in Africa. Her body is found at Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya near the border with Sudan. Tessa’s husband. Justin, is also a British diplomat stationed in Nairobi. Until now Justin has been an obedient civil servant, content to toe the official line—in short, a hard worker. But all that changes in the aftermath of his wife’s murder. Full of righteous anger, he resolves to get to the bottom of it, come what may.
"The Constant Gardener" has got plenty of tense moments and sudden twists and comes completely with shadowy figures lurking in the bush. There is a familiar tone of gentlemanly world- weariness to it all, which should keep Mr. le Carre’s fans happy. But the novel is also an impassioned attack on the corruption which allows Africa to be used as a sort of laboratory for the testing of new medicines. Elsewhere, Mr. le Carte has denounced the "corporate cam, hypocrisy, corruption and greed" of the pharmaceutical industry. This position is excitingly dramatized in his book, even if the abuses he rails against are not exactly breaking news.
In other respects "The Constant Gardener" is less satisfactory. Mr. le Carte can’t seem to make up his mind whether he’s writing a thriller or an expose. Ina recent article for the New Yorker he described his creative process as "a kind of deliberately twisted journalism, where nothing is quite what it is" and where any encounter may be "freely recast for its dramatic possibilities". Such is the method employed in "The Constant Gardener", whose heroine. Mr. le Carte says, was inspired by an old friend of his. One or two prominent real-life Kenyan politicians are mentioned often enough to become, in effect. "characters" in the story. And in a note at the end of the book Mr. le Cane thanks the various diplomats, doctors, pharmaceutical experts and old Africa hands who gave him advice and assistance, though in the same breath he insists that the staff of the British mission in Nairobi are no doubt all jolly good eggs who bear no resemblance whatsoever to the heartless scoundrels in his story.
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of artistic license, Of course. But Mr. le Carre’s equivocation about the novel’s relation to fact undermines its effectiveness as a work of social criticism, which is pretty clearly what it aspires to be. "The Constant Gardener" is a cracking thriller but a flawed exploration of a complicated set of political issues.
"The Constant Gardener" is a ______.

A:film B:comedy C:novel D:document

"The news hit the British High Commission in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday morning. Sandy Woodrow took it like a bullet, jaw rigid, chest out, smack through his divided English heart." Crikey. So that’s how you take a bullet. Poor old Sandy. His English heart must be really divided now. This deliriously hardboiled opening sets the tone for what’s to come. White mischief Pshaw! White plague, more like it.
Sandy Woodrow is head of chancery at the British High Commission in Nairobi. The news that neatly subdivides his heart as the novel opens is the death of a young, beautiful and idealistic lawyer turned aid worker named Tessa Quayle. Tessa has been murdered for learning too much about the dishonest practices of a large pharmaceutical company operating in Africa. Her body is found at Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya near the border with Sudan. Tessa’s husband. Justin, is also a British diplomat stationed in Nairobi. Until now Justin has been an obedient civil servant, content to toe the official line—in short, a hard worker. But all that changes in the aftermath of his wife’s murder. Full of righteous anger, he resolves to get to the bottom of it, come what may.
"The Constant Gardener" has got plenty of tense moments and sudden twists and comes completely with shadowy figures lurking in the bush. There is a familiar tone of gentlemanly world- weariness to it all, which should keep Mr. le Carre’s fans happy. But the novel is also an impassioned attack on the corruption which allows Africa to be used as a sort of laboratory for the testing of new medicines. Elsewhere, Mr. le Carte has denounced the "corporate cam, hypocrisy, corruption and greed" of the pharmaceutical industry. This position is excitingly dramatized in his book, even if the abuses he rails against are not exactly breaking news.
In other respects "The Constant Gardener" is less satisfactory. Mr. le Carte can’t seem to make up his mind whether he’s writing a thriller or an expose. Ina recent article for the New Yorker he described his creative process as "a kind of deliberately twisted journalism, where nothing is quite what it is" and where any encounter may be "freely recast for its dramatic possibilities". Such is the method employed in "The Constant Gardener", whose heroine. Mr. le Carte says, was inspired by an old friend of his. One or two prominent real-life Kenyan politicians are mentioned often enough to become, in effect. "characters" in the story. And in a note at the end of the book Mr. le Cane thanks the various diplomats, doctors, pharmaceutical experts and old Africa hands who gave him advice and assistance, though in the same breath he insists that the staff of the British mission in Nairobi are no doubt all jolly good eggs who bear no resemblance whatsoever to the heartless scoundrels in his story.
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of artistic license, Of course. But Mr. le Carre’s equivocation about the novel’s relation to fact undermines its effectiveness as a work of social criticism, which is pretty clearly what it aspires to be. "The Constant Gardener" is a cracking thriller but a flawed exploration of a complicated set of political issues

A:film B:comedy C:novel D:document

The crime novel may be regarded as

A:a not quite respectable form of the conventional novel. B:not a tree novel at all. C:related in some ways to the historical novel. D:an independent development of the novel.

You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. (36) is very easy to enter the shop looking (37) a book on, say, ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the (38) best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-robbing (39) which had only vaguely interested you up till then. This volume on the subject, however, (40) to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting, (41) you just had to buy it. This sort of thing (42) be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can (43) a great deal of time wandering from section to section. Book-sellers must be both long-suffering and indulgent.
There is a (44) which well illustrates this. A medical student had to read a text-book which was far too expensive for him to (45) . He couldn’t obtain it from the library and the only copy he could find was in his bookshop. (46) afternoon, therefore, he would go along to the (47) and read a lime of the book at a time. One day, (48) , he was dismayed to find the book (49) from its usual place and was about to leave (50) he noticed the owner of the shop beckoning to him. (51) to be told off, he went towards him. (52) his surprise, the owner pointed to the book, (53) was tucked away in a comer. "I put it there (54) case anyone was tempted to buy it," he said, and left the delighted student to (55) his reading.

A:book B:person C:story D:novel

This novel is ______ the better of the two.

A:by far B:by too C:far too D:by the far

The novel Emma is written by （）.

A:Mary Shelley B:Charlotte Bronte C:Elizabeth Gaskell D:Jane Austen