What are the narrator's characteristics and whom does he represent?
Reading Comprehension
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.
         Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, I carry’d all my riches, all my provisions ,ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above ; and I made me a large tent, which, to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double, viz. one smaller tent within, and one larger tent above it, and covered the uppermost with a large tarpaulin which I had saved among the sails. 
What are the narrator's characteristics and whom does he represent?
【正确答案】:

       ROBINSON IS A TYPICAL 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH MIDDLE—CLASS MAN, WITH A GREAT CAPACITY FOR WORK, INEXHAUSTIBLE ENERGY, COURAGE, PATIENCE AND PERSISTENCE IN OVERCOMING OBSTACLES, IN STRUGGLING AGAINST THE HOSTILE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

       HE IS VERY PROTOTYPE OF THE EMPIRE BUILDER, THE PIONEER COLONIST. ROBINSON CRUSOE, SUPPOSEDLY BASED ON THE REAL ADVENTURE OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK WHO ONCE STAYED ALONE ON THE UNINHABITED ISLAND JUAN FERNANDEZ FOR FIVE YEARS.


【题目解析】:本题考查《鲁宾逊漂流记》中主人公的性格特点以及他的象征代表意义。鲁滨逊是典型的18世纪英国中产阶级男性,具有极强的工作能力、取之不尽的精力、克服困难的勇气、耐心和毅力,在与恶劣的自然环境的斗争中顽强拼搏。他是典型的帝国缔造者,开拓者。《鲁滨逊漂流记》,据说是根据亚历山大·塞尔柯克的真实冒险改编的,他曾独自一人在无人居住的胡安·费尔南德斯岛上呆了五年。
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