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[Reading Comprehension]
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| Line | Critics maintain that the fiction of Herman Melville |
| (1819–1891) has limitations, such as its lack | |
| of inventive plots after Moby-Dick (1851) and its | |
| occasionally inscrutable style. A more serious, yet | |
| (5) | problematic, charge is that Melville is a deficient |
| writer because he is not a practitioner of the “art of | |
| fiction,” as critics have conceived of this art since the | |
| late nineteenth-century essays and novels of Henry | |
| James. Indeed, most twentieth-century commentators | |
| (10) | regard Melville not as a novelist but as a writer of |
| romance, since they believe that Melville’s fiction | |
| lacks the continuity that James viewed as essential | |
| to a novel: the continuity between what characters | |
| feel or think and what they do, and the continuity | |
| (15) | between characters’ fates and their pasts or original |
| social classes. Critics argue that only Pierre (1852), | |
| because of its subject and its characters, is close to | |
| being a novel in the Jamesian sense. | |
| However, although Melville is not a Jamesian | |
| (20) | novelist, he is not therefore a deficient writer. A more |
| reasonable position is that Melville is a different | |
| kind of writer, who held, and should be judged | |
| by, presuppositions about fiction that are quite | |
| different from James’s. It is true that Melville wrote | |
| (25) | “romances”; however, these are not the escapist |
| fictions this word often implies, but fictions that | |
| range freely among very unusual or intense human | |
| experiences. Melville portrayed such experiences | |
| because he believed these best enabled him to | |
| (30) | explore moral questions, an exploration he assumed |
| was the ultimate purpose of fiction. He was content | |
| to sacrifice continuity or even credibility as long | |
| as he could establish a significant moral situation. | |
| Thus Melville’s romances do not give the reader | |
| (35) | a full understanding of the complete feelings and |
| thoughts that motivate actions and events that shape | |
| fate. Rather, the romances leave unexplained the | |
| sequence of events and either simplify or obscure | |
| motives. Again, such simplifications and obscurities | |
| (40) | exist in order to give prominence to the depiction of |
| sharply delineated moral values, values derived from | |
| a character’s purely personal sense of honor, rather | |
| than, as in a Jamesian novel, from the conventions of | |
| society. |
题目：
Which of the following statements best describes the author’s method of argumentation in lines 24–31?
选项:
A、The author describes an important standard of evaluation used by critics of Melville and then attacks that standard.
B、The author admits a contention put forward by critics of Melville but then makes a countercharge against those critics.
C、The author describes a charge advanced by critics of Melville and then points out a logical flaw in this charge.
D、The author provides evidence that seems to support a position held by critics of Melville but then demonstrates that the evidence actually supports a diametrically opposed position.
E、The author concedes an assertion made by critics of Melville but then mitigates the weight of the assertion by means of an explanation.
答案:
E
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