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The primary purpose of the passage is to ______.

A．demonstrate the nineteenth-century preference for realistic novels rather than romantic ones
B．explain why Jane Austin' s novels were not included in any academic curriculum in tile early nineteenth century
C．urge a reassessment of Jane Austin ' s novels by twentieth-century critics
D．describe some of the responses of nineteenth-century critics to Jane Austin' s novels as well as to fiction in general

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The passage suggests that twentieth-century Marxists would have admired Jane Austin ' s novels more if the novels as the Marxists understood them, had ______.

A．described the values of upper-middle class society
B．avoided moral instruction and sermonizing
C．depicted ordinary society in a more flattering light
D．portrayed characters from more than one class of society

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The author mentions that English hterature was not part of any academic curriculum in the early nineteenth century in order to ______.

A．emphasize the need for Jane Austin to create ordinary, everyday characters in her novels
B．give support to those religious and political groups that had attacked fiction
C．give one reason why Jane Austin' s novels received little critical attention in the early nineteenth century
D．suggest the superiority of an informal and unsystematized approach to the study of literature