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In many respects, Katsura Okiyama is a typical Japanese woman in her 20s. She enjoys spending time with her friends and loves Disney. But, less typically, she is a writer. And, quite exceptionally, her medium is a cell phone.
In Japan, not only are people reading novels on their cell phones; they're also writing novels with them—uploading SMS-length chapters to specialist websites where they are in turn downloaded to the phones of millions of readers. The most popular are printed as books and sell in the hundreds of thousands. In book form, K, Okiyama's first cell-phone novel, is 235 pages long. "I think I was writing 20 pages in two hours per day at the most, and it took me almost a month, " she says.
Although she was used to writing around 100 text messages daily, Okiyama never expected that thumbing her keypad would enable her to become one of the country's hot new writers. "I had never written a story," she says. "I never had the idea of how a real novel should be, so that might be why I could do it. "
"Cell-phone novels are created and consumed by a generation of young people in Japan that demands to be heard, " says John Possman, an entertainment consultant. "It is truly pop culture. It has also become big business, shaking up a publishing industry whose sales have been declining for a decade. "
Individual voices are hard to find, however. As dictated by the medium, the language of cell-phone novels is simple and peppered with emoticons—signs that represent various attitudes or emotions. Dialogue and description are scarce. Subject matter is always the same. Typically, a heroine loses her first love and then later struggles to find love again.
"The stories are often told in the first person and lack diversity, " agrees Possman. But that hasn't been a problem with consumers yet. "Why don't you write a novel and move me?" read one angry schoolgirl's recent online post, in response to a fierce opponent of cell-phone novels. So far, Japan's literary establishment hasn't come up with an answer.
单选题
In Japan, cell-phone writers ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。题干意为:“在日本,手机小说作家______?” 文章第二段“...up loading SMS-length chapters to specialist...”介绍了日本读者通过短信的形式把手机小说上传到专门的网站上,然后被网友下载,因此是一点点的把故事上传到网上。故选A。
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According to Katsura Okiyama, she is able to write because ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。题干意为:“Katsura Okiyama认为她能够写小说主要是因为______?”根据文章第三段最后一句话“I never had the idea of how a real novel should be, so that might be why I could do it. ”可知,她认为自己成功的出版小说的原因,恰恰是她自己从未想过真正小说的样子,即她没有受到传统文学的影响。故选D。
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According to John Possman, the Japanese publishing industry ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。题干意为:“根据John Possman可知,日本出版社______?”由文章第四段“...shaking up a publishing industry whose sales have been declining for a decade.”可知出版业的销量在不断的减少,故选C。
单选题
We learn from the text that cell-phone novels ______.