JANE HARDLY EVER ENJOYS EATING VEGETABLES. HARDLY ______________...
45. Jane hardly ever enjoys eating vegetables. Hardly _____________________________________________________________________ From questions 46 to 50, read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct words coming from the words in CAPITALS. Your answers must be written in your answer sheet. Fiction is the writing of a story or text that is not true: It can be (46)________________ in the form of either poetry or prose. Poetry is WRITE a style of writing in which short lines form verses. Often, words at the end of these lines rhyme, like “bed” and “red”. We call a group of verses about one subject a “poem”. Prose writing does not have verses, nor does it rhyme. It uses sentences and paragraphs. Prose is used in magazine articles, newspaper stories, short stories, and books. Prose fiction has (47)________________since ancient times, but EXISTENCE most early fiction was actually written as poetry. Scholars disagree about the date of the first prose fiction book, or novel. Some scholars classify fictional stories from ancient Greece and Rome as the early novels in Asia as early as the 6
th
century. These early novels were mostly short adventure stories about fictional characters. In Europe, prose fiction (48)________________to seriously BEGIN challenge poetry in the 16th
century. A Spanish author, Cervantes, wrote Europe’
s first prose novel in the early 1600s. However, longer novels, like Cervantes’
s Don Quixote, did not become very (49)________________until the 1700s. By that time, there POPULARITY (50)________________more printing presses, and more people knew BE how to read. In addition, more people had money to buy these books. Today, the vast majority of fiction is written in prose rather than in poetry.Prose: văn xuôi; verse: thơ
Written- existed- began- popular- were