Nhận biết (M1)

Text 1

Isaac Asimov, author of The Caves of Steel and Pebble in the Sky, is highly regarded despite his mediocre writing style. His prose is basic and hastily composed; his characters are flat and discuss ideas rather than emotions. That his work is enjoyable despite such deficiencies is a testament to his prodigious imagination—even if people read his books only for the ideas, they will have much to consider.

Text 2

Asimov is critiqued for his style, but it is wrong to fault a writer for failing to do what he never intended to do. For example, it is true that the prose in his novel Foundation is quite plain—we are often given only the faintest ideas of what people, objects, and settings look like. But Asimov's storytelling is extremely efficient: he can relate in 250 pages a tale for which other writers would need 1,000. Thus his minimalist style is central to his storytelling.

Based on the texts, the author of Text 1 would most likely agree with the author of Text 2 on which point?

• A.

  Asimov's prose tends to be simple.

• B.

  The Caves of Steel is more representative of Asimov's writing style than Foundation is.

• C.

  Shorter books are preferable to longer ones.

• D.

  Asimov's writing style is deficient in many noticeable ways.