Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe's masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?
A. Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five years. Actually, the story is an imagination.
B. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.
C.In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid eighteenth century England.
D.Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it became an immediate success.（p98）
