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With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject matter and widely-varying methods of treatment, the cri

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问题     With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject matter and widely-varying methods of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature, or, at least, as a distinct, even though a slightly disreputable, offshoot of the traditional novel.
    The detective story is probably the most respectable (at any rate in the narrow sense of the word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of university teachers, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, but the world in which they happen, the village, seaside resort, college or studio, 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 recognizably human and consistent as our less intimate associates. A 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, and most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background. 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 revel 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 first fights, revolver duels, car crashes and escapes 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 ruthless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money and, in contrast to the detective tale, with a near-omniscient arch-criminal whose defeat seems almost accidental. Perhaps we miss in the thriller the security of being safely led by our imperturbable investigator past a score of red herrings and blind avenues to a final gathering of suspects when an unchallengeable elucidation of all that has bewildered us is given and justice and goodness prevail. All that we vainly hope for from life is granted vicariously.
The crime novel may be regarded as______.
选项 A、a not quite respectable form of the conventional novel
B、not a true novel at all
C、related in some ways to the historical novel
D、an independent development of the novel
答案D
解析 细节推理题，问对于犯罪小说的定位。根据题干中的关键词“crime novel”，首先就定位到文章的第一段，第一段实际上就是对犯罪小说(crime novel)的一个综述，通过理解，首先就可以排除掉B“根本不是小说”和C“与历史小说有某些关联”，这两点明显与第一段的内容无关，比较难判断的是A“传统小说中某种不很高雅的(文学)形式”和D“一种独立发展的小说形式”，支持A的根据是句中的一个补语“even though a slightly disreputable尽管是有点不太光彩”，支持D的根据是“could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature，or，at least…，off shoot of the traditional novel或可理直气壮地要求被视为文学的一个独立分支，或者至少是传统小说中的一个支派”，但我们可以从D的根据中注意到作者建议(could)犯罪小说为“文学的一个独立分支”或“传统小说中的一个支派”，这与D完全相符，且同时否定了A中将犯罪小说完全划入传统小说的说法，所以最终选定D为正确答案。
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