单选题 .  Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every feature that most people find repulsive. This is unfortunate because it degrades a worthwhile literary endeavor. Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and between man and the universe. Science fiction is a literature of change and a literature of the future, and the aspects of human life that it considers make it well worth reading and studying for no other literary form does quite the same things. What is science fiction? To begin, the following definition should be helpful: science fiction is a literary subgenre which postulates (以……为前提) a change (for human beings) from conditions as we know them and follows the implications of these changes to a conclusion.
    The first point that science fiction is a literary sub-genre is a very important one, but one which is often overlooked or ignored in most discussions of science fiction. Specifically, science fiction is either a short story or a novel. There are only a few dramas which could be called science fiction, the body of poetry that might be labeled science fiction is only slightly larger. To say that science fiction is a subgenre of prose fiction is to say that it has all the basic characteristics and serves the same basic functions in much the same way as prose fiction in general, that is, it shares a great deal with all other novels.
    Everything that can be said about prose fiction, in general, applies to science fiction. Every piece of science fiction, whether short story or novel, must have a narrator, a story, a plot, the themes of science fiction are concerned with interpreting man's nature and experience in relation to the world around him. Themes in science fiction are constructed and presented in exactly the same ways that themes are dealt with in any other kind of fiction. They are the result to a particular combination of a narrator, story, plot, character, setting, and language. In short, the reasons for reading and enjoying science fiction, and the ways of studying and analyzing it, are basically the same as they would be for any other story or novel.1.  From the first paragraph, we can infer that science fiction is popular because ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】 文中首先提出现在的学生不善于与人交流,这给他们带来了沮丧和愤怒,接着指出手机和网络的普及让学生更容易避开与人面对面的交流。父母替孩子解决一切问题也是孩子不善于与人交流的原因之一。
   语义理解题。由定位句可知,这里说的是“学生看上去似乎缺乏意愿和技巧去______这些普通的冲突”,既然是做冲突的谓语,那么“解决”在这里最为合适,因此正确答案为D。A项指“和……说话,交谈”,B项指“做正式的演说”,C项指“标明目的地”,都不符合句意。