Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the Bug-eyed Monster, embody

Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every feature that most people find unpleasant. 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 subgenre is a very important one, but one which is often overlooked. 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(小说) 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 and short stories.
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, characters, setting, and language. The themes of science fiction are concerned with interpreting man’s nature and experience 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 bination 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.
【小题1】 From the first paragraph, we can infer that science fiction has been most popular in modern society because     .A．with the growth of literacy, the size of the reading public has increasedB．petition from television has created a demand for more exciting fictionC．science fiction is easier to understand than other kinds of fictionD．the increased importance of technology has given science fiction an increased relevance【小题2】 According to the definition in the passage, a fictional work that places human beings in a prehistoric world inhabited by dinosaurs    .A．cannot be called science fiction because it does not deal with the futureB．cannot be called science fiction because it doesn’t deal with technologyC．can be called science fiction because it deals with man’s relation with the worldD．can be called science fiction because it places people in an environment different from the one we know【小题3】 Science fiction is called a literary subgenre because    .A．it is not important enough to be a literary genreB．it cannot be made into a dramatic presentationC．it shares characteristics with other types of prose fictionD．it has a great number of readers keen on reading【小题4】 One implication of the final sentence in the passage is that    .A．the reader should turn next to mentaries on general fictionB．there is no reason for any reader not to like science fictionC．the reader should pare other novels and stories to science fictionD．those who can appreciate prose fiction can appreciate science fiction【小题5】An appropriate title for this passage would be    .A．Man and the UniverseB．Toward a Definition of Science FictionC．A Type of Prose FictionD．The Bug-Eyed MonsterD