marcher高考浙江卷英语真题及答案

2021年1月7日发(作者：吴纯一)


2018年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（浙江卷）
英 语

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、 C和D四个选项中，选出最
佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66
novels published in Britain. People had been writing novels for
a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe
in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally. The
steam-powered printing press was still in its early stages; the
literacy（识字） rate in England was under 50%. Many works of
fiction appeared without the names of the authors, often with
something like “By a lady.”Novels, for the most part, were
looked upon as silly, immoral, or just plain bad.
In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its
first professional writer and publisher, famous and beloved,
who had led an explosion in both the publication of novels and
their readership and whose characters — from Oliver Twist to
Tiny Tim— were held up as moral touchstones. Today Dickens’