新GRE小短文阅读练习题四十七

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Whenever a French novel is translated into English, the edition sold
: w8 s2 O& l& I! G: Rin Britain should be in British English.  If the edition sold in Britain
$ p' B  I" J4 K/ o( m  twere in American English, its idioms and spellings would appear to
) @: Y1 Z" A) h5 m( h7 A; EBritish readers to be strikingly American and thus to conflict with the
novel's setting.
The recommendation is based on which of the following assumptions?  
& u; }  q& \7 ^* {/ w0 r      The authors of French novels are usually native speakers of
        French.
) n6 M2 g4 G  k' n      A non-British reader of a novel  written in British English will
        inevitably fail to understand the meanings of some of the
        words and idioms in the novel.
      No French novel that is to be sold in Britain in English translation
/ m0 \9 p$ f/ o: ?- I1 J& O        is set in the United States.
5 H' d1 v% M5 Z2 b      A British reader of a British novel will notice that the idioms and
8 S% }0 a9 u* P9 J* H        spellings used in the novel are British.
      Most French novels are not translated into both British English
) r; f6 P- E- `" b7 N9 _' S        and American English.
答案C