Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe .the protagonist of the novel,as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.
【正确答案】：A.Social background ： The Eighteenth Century England witnessed the growing importance of the bourgeois or middle class.
a.The Industrial Revolution；
b.The expansion of international markets；
c.Values/virtues/moral standards/... different from those of the feudal aristocratic class-courageous, full of energy, hard working, practical, resourceful, self-reliant,etc.
d.Literature should give/provide a realistic presentation of the life of the common people；it should meet the demand/interest of the middle class people.
B. Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtues of the middle class people.
a.Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage(example from the text)；
b.Crusoe as a practical man(example from the text)；
c.Crusoe as a resourceful/self-reliant man(example from the text)；
d.Crusoe as a patient/persistent man (example from the text) ； e. And others. (P97,98,100 )
