单选题 Which of the followings implied in the passage?

A、 The attitudes of the masses of people are best expressed by sociology texts.
B、 The nearest thing we have had to a proletarian literature is the clime novel.
C、 The study of the formal literature alone will not enable the historian to understand the attitudes and interests of the common people.
D、 Because the themes in the dime novels were not good, they could no longer be legally distribute

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】由文章第二段“the industrious researchers who．．．to these novels and all their kind”可推出，单纯研究正式的文学资料对于研究历史来说是不够的，因此选C。B说法虽然完全正确，但由于是文中直接写到的而不是推断出的，所以不选B。