Nhận biết (M1)

Text 1

Isaac Asimov, author of The Caves of Steel and The Gods Themselves, 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 this is a testament to his prodigious imagination—even if people only read his books for 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, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the claim about Asimov's prose underlined in Text 1?

• A.

  The spare nature of Asimov's prose should not necessarily be considered a flaw in his writing.

• B.

  The efficiency of Asimov's prose style comes at the expense of more complex ideas.

• C.

  Asimov's prose would have been better if his writing did not concentrate so strongly on ideas.

• D.

  Simple prose is a feature of The Caves of Steel and The Gods Themselves but not of Foundation.