Jane Austen’s literary reputation has managed to survive over 200 years because all her readers appreciated her novels.

In Paragraph 2, the author mentioned Defoe, Jane Austen and Hardy to show______ .

A．their mastery of writing novels

B．her admiration for them

C．they had different writing styles to reveal the world

D．her understanding about their works

A、she fell ill

B、her parents did not support her

C、she was not interested in writing during that period

D、she had to follow her parents to leave their home for a place that she did not like

______is an 18th century novelist.

A．Henry Fielding

B．Jane Austen

C．Charles Dickens

D．George Eliot

______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose", the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A．Henry Fielding

B．Daniel Defoe

C．Jonathan Swift

D．Jane Austen

In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen's attitude towards these motivations.