阅读理解题汇编（英文）

来源：语数外学习(语文教育), 2019, (02): 77-82.

<正>A In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were66 novels published in Britain. People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally. The steam-powered printing press was still in its early