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A long, imaginary prose story about people is usually called a novel.
It can be about any kind of man, woman, or child. It can be about kings, or Chicago newsboys, or housewives. The Frenchman, Victor Hugo, wrote his novel Les Miserables about a poor man who stole a loaf of bread to keep from starving. The American, Ernest Heminway, wrote A Farewell to Arms about a young American with the Italian Army in World War I.
A novel can tell the story of any kind of action, over any period of time. The modern Irish writer, James Joyce, covers less than twenty-four hours in Ulysses. Yet Joyce takes a thousand pages to tell all that happens from the time one man gets up in the morning until he goes to bed early the next morning. A German writer, Herman Hesse, uses only one hundred and fifty pages in his novel Demian to cover a boy's life from the age of ten until he becomes a young man.
A novel does not merely tell the things that people do. It also tells why they do them. The Red Badge of Courage, by the American novelist, Stephen Grane, tells about a young soldier in the War between the States who runs away the first time he is in battle. The book shows why he acted as he did. It describes his mental suffering until he overcomes his fears.
People buy novels because they enjoy reading about other people. Alone among the literary forms, the novel satisfies the human desire to know and understand our fellow creatures.
(1) According to the passage, a novel must be about ________.
(2) Demcian is a novel written by ________.
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(3) The amount of time a novel must cover is ________.
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(4) According to the passage, a novel should ________.
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A．experiment with new techniques
B．describe the things that are familiar to the readers
C．have at least one hundred and fifty pages
D．satisfy our desire to understand what motivates other people
(5) Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
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A．The History of the Novel
B．The Nature of the Novel
C．The World-famous Novelists
D．The Importance of the Novel
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