Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every feature that most people find unpleasant. This is unfortunate because it degrades a worthwhile literary endeavor. Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and between man and the universe. Science fiction is a literature of change and a literature of the future, and the aspects of human life that it considers make it well worth reading and studying for no other literary form does quite the same things. What is science fiction? To begin, the following definition should be helpful: science fiction is a literary subgenre which postulates(以…為前提) a change (for human beings) from conditions as we know them and follows the implications of these changes to a conclusion.
The first point that science fiction is a literary subgenre is a very important one, but one which is often overlooked. Specifically, science fiction is either a short story or a novel. There are only a few dramas which could be called science fiction; the body of poetry that might be labeled science fiction is only slightly larger. To say that science fiction is a subgenre of prose fiction(小說(shuō)) is to say that it has all the basic characteristics and serves the same basic functions in much the same way as prose fiction in general, that is, it shares a great deal with all other novels and short stories.
Everything that can be said about prose fiction, in general, applies to science fiction. Every piece of science fiction, whether short story or novel, must have a narrator, a story, a plot, characters, setting, and language. The themes of science fiction are concerned with interpreting man’s nature and experience around him. Themes in science fiction are constructed and presented in exactly the same ways that themes are dealt with in any other kind of fiction. They are the result to a particular combination of a narrator, story, plot, character, setting, and language. In short, the reasons for reading and enjoying science fiction, and the ways of studying and analyzing it, are basically the same as they would be for any other story or novel.
【小題1】 From the first paragraph, we can infer that science fiction has been most popular in modern society because ____.

A．with the growth of literacy, the size of the reading public has increased
B．competition from television has created a demand for more exciting fiction
C．science fiction is easier to understand than other kinds of fiction
D．the increased importance of technology has given science fiction an increased relevance
【小題2】 According to the definition in the passage, a fictional work that places human beings in a prehistoric world inhabited by dinosaurs____.
A．cannot be called science fiction because it does not deal with the future
B．cannot be called science fiction because it doesn’t deal with technology
C．can be called science fiction because it deals with man’s relation with the world
D．can be called science fiction because it places people in an environment different from the one we know
【小題3】 Science fiction is called a literary subgenre because____.
A．it is not important enough to be a literary genre
B．it cannot be made into a dramatic presentation
C．it shares characteristics with other types of prose fiction
D．it has a great number of readers keen on reading
【小題4】 One implication of the final sentence in the passage is that____.
A．the reader should turn next to commentaries on general fiction
B．there is no reason for any reader not to like science fiction
C．the reader should compare other novels and stories to science fiction
D．those who can appreciate prose fiction can appreciate science fiction
【小題5】An appropriate title for this passage would be____.
A．Man and the UniverseB．Toward a Definition of Science Fiction
C．A Type of Prose FictionD．The Bug-Eyed Monster


【小題1】D
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】D
【小題5】B

解析試題分析：
【小題1】D 推斷題。根據(jù)第一段第三行和第四行Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and between man and the universe.可知，科幻小說(shuō)在現(xiàn)代社會(huì)的流行與人類創(chuàng)造的科技是密不可分的
【小題2】D 判斷題。根據(jù)第一段對(duì)科幻小說(shuō)的定義可以知道D選項(xiàng)描述的原因符合題干的描述 故D符合題意
【小題3】C 推斷題。根據(jù)上下文句意可知，科幻小說(shuō)是文學(xué)的一個(gè)分支，因?yàn)樗推渌⑽念愋≌f(shuō)的特征都一樣 故C符合題意
【小題4】D推斷題。由文章最后一句可知，科幻小說(shuō)和散文類小說(shuō)是一樣的，所以說(shuō)能欣賞散文類小說(shuō)的人肯定也能欣賞科幻小說(shuō) 故D符合題意
【小題5】B主旨題。根據(jù)全文的描述可知，重點(diǎn)放在科幻小說(shuō)的定義的解釋上，所以B選項(xiàng)更符合題意
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點(diǎn)評(píng)：本篇文章屬于說(shuō)明文。文章通過(guò)和散文類小說(shuō)特征的對(duì)比說(shuō)明了科幻小說(shuō)的定義�？忌谧鞔饡r(shí)，應(yīng)注意抓好細(xì)節(jié)，提高閱讀速度和做題的準(zhǔn)確度。平時(shí)注意多練習(xí)，多總結(jié)。

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