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CAT 2016 Verbal and Reading Comprehension

Question : 26 of 34

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In the 21st century too, the survival of the novel depends on female readership, which is to say it depends on their innate inclination towards fine emotional understanding.
As psychology has shown, both women and the novel share a deep reservoir of emotional understanding, which underscores the reason for the dependence of the novel on female readership.
Some social sciences argue that women are conditioned by society to have finer emotional understanding, which explains why the novel depends on women readers for its survival.
It may be down to nature or nurture, but even in the 21st century one thing is clear; if women read on, the novel lives on.

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