TEXT B
　
With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject-matter and widely-varying method of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of the traditional novel.
　
The detective story is probably the most respectful (at any in the narrow sense of word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of University dons, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizable human and consistent as our less intimate associates. As story set in a more remote environment, African jungle or Australian bush, ancient China or gas-lit London, appeals to our interest in geography or history, and most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background. The elaborate, carefully-assemble plot, despised by the modern intellectual critics and creators of 'significant' novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery, with its sprinkling of clues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of escapism from Real Life nagging gently, we secretly revel in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human sleuth, who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has hovered so unjustly over the innocent.
　
Though its villain also receives his rightful deserts, the thriller presents a less comfortable and credible world. The sequence of fist fights, revolver duels, car crashes and escaped from gas-filled cellars exhausts the reader far more than than the hero, who, suffering from at least two broken ribs, one black eye, uncountable bruises and a hangover, can still chase and overpower an armed villain with the physique of a wrestler. He moves dangerously through a world of ruthless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money and, in contrast to the detective tale, with a near-omniscient arch-criminal whose defeat seems almost accidental. Perhaps we miss in the thriller the security of being safely led by our imperturbable investigator past a score of red herrings and blind avenues to a final gathering of suspects when an unchallengeable elucidation of all that has bewildered us is given justice and goodness prevail. All that we vainly hope for from life is granted vicariously.

39. The crime novel may be regarded as ____
A. a not quite respectable form of the conventional novel.
B. not a true novel at all.
C. related in some ways to the historical novel.
D. an independent development of the novel.
正确答案是

40. The passage suggests that intellectuals write detective stories because ____
A. the stories are often in fact very instructive
B. they enjoy writing these stories.
C. the creation of these stories demands considerable intelligence.
D. detective stories are an accepted branch of literature.
正确答案是

41. Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as one of the similarities between the detective story and the thriller?
A. both have involved plots.
B. both are condemned by modern critics.
C. both are forms of escapist fiction.
D. both demonstrate the triumph of right over wrong.
正确答案是

42. In what way are the detective story and the thriller unlike?
A. in introducing violence
B. in providing excitement and suspense
C. in appealing to the intellectual curiosity of the readers
D. in ensuring that everything comes tight in the end.
正确答案是