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。
AIn 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 app ...