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Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels (小说) of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters’.
Their father was Patrick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care of the remaining three girls and a boy.
Charlotte was born in 1816. Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely self-educated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.
As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher(出版商), but there was no interest shown in Charlotte’s book. (It was not published until 1859.) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her works. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.
Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did not do so well. People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like. But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book, and Anne died in 1849.
Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis(肺结核) as her sisters had.
小题1:We know from the text that .
A.Jane Eyre was published in 1847 |
B.Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all |
C.the Bronte sisters received good education |
D.Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writing |
A.Shirley and Villette | B.The Professor and Agnes Grey |
C.Agnes Grey and Wutheriing Heights | D.The Professor and wuthering Heights |
A.Their novels interested few publishers. |
B.None of them had more than two books published. |
C.None of them lived longer than 40 years old. |
D.Emily was the least successful of the three. |
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小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:C
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试题【THE BRONTE FAMILYYorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels (小说) of】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The wife shared in the management of her husband’s personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance(遗产,继承物)against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Maria, Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro’s personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, “for the sake of peace.” Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the Catalan wife knew how to win herself, within the context of the family, a powerful economic position.
小题1: A decimum was .
A.the wife’s inheritance from her father |
B.a gift of money to the new husband |
C.a written contract |
D.the wife’s right to receive one-tenth of her husband’s property |
A.higher than that of her husband | B.lower than that of her husband |
C.the same as that of her husband | D.higher than that of a single woman |
A.Some of the land Miro had inherited. | B.A tenth of Miro’s land. |
C.Money for household expenses. | D.Money from Miro’s inheritance. |
A.The husband had to share the power of decision in marriage. |
B.The wife was protested from desertion. |
C.The wife gained a powerful economic position. |
D.The husband was given control over his wife’s property. |
Pearman put his head close to the window.“Come on, mister.Give me a chance.I need a job,” he said.Something in Stephen Pearman’s voice moved Robert Fredy.In the seconds before traffic started moving again, Fredy handed a business card and told him to call if he was serious.
“My friends told me he was just pulling my leg, ”said Pearman.“But I said, “ No, he’s a
businessman.I need to give it a shot.”
Two days later,29-year-old Pearman appeared in the manager"s office of the big hotel.Fredy gave him a job and housing and lent him pocket money while training him.
Today, Pearman works full time setting up the hotel"s dining halls for business meetings.In the past two years, he has found a flat, married and repaid Fredy’s loans.
“Mr.Fredy gave me a second chance, “says Pearman, ” And I took advantage of it.I could have just come here a while, eaten up and left.But there is no future in washing windshields.”
Ordinarily, Fredy keeps away from the street people.“But Pearman seemed so honest and open, asking for a chance rather than just money,” Fredy says, “I don’t hand my business card to just anybody.But I’m glad I did in this case.”
小题1:When Pearman first appeared before Fredy, .
A.Fredy took him as a beggar |
B.Pearman was told to do it later |
C.Fredy gladly agreed to let him do it |
D.Pearman knew Fredy was a kind man |
A.Pearman was really hardworking |
B.Pearman was really looking for a job |
C.Pearman’s conditions were truly scrious |
D.Pearman was really interested in washing windshields |
A.Fredy knew Pearman intended to ask for a job |
B.Fredy was making fun of Pearman |
C.Fredy wanted to help the poor |
D.Fredy was tired of being stopped |
A.in charge of Fredy’s loans |
B.still washing car windshields |
C.full – time employed at the hotel |
D.arranging dinner parties for the hotel |
A.He helps those who will work hard themselves. |
B.He likes to give his help to anyone in need. |
C.He always gives help to the unemployed. |
D.He is easily moved by poor people. |
He fell in love with her at the first sight at a party. She was so outstanding while he was so 36 . At the end of the party, he invited her to have 37 with him. She was very 38 , but she promised.
Sitting in a nice coffee shop, he was too 39 to say anything. Suddenly he
said to the waiter,“ Would you please give me some 40 ?” Everybody stared at him, so strange!His face turned red, but still, he 41 the salt in his coffee and drank it.
She asked him 42 ,“Why do you have this 43 ?”
He replied,“ When I was a little boy, I was living near the 44 . Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood and my 45 .”
While saying that tears 46 his eyes. She was deeply 47 . That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. Later they got 48 … And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that’s the way he liked it.
After 40 years, he passed away, leaving her a letter which 49 :
My dearest, please forgive my lie, the only 50 I said to you --the salty coffee. The first time we 51 I was so nervous that actually I wanted some sugar. I 52 to tell you the truth many times, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have 53 not to lie to you forever… Having you is my biggest happiness even though I have to drink the salty coffee.
Her tears 54 the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her, “What’s the taste of salty coffee?” She replied, “It’s 55 .”
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James was a curious young man. Everywhere he went, he liked to observe things and to __21__ people—what they did, what they said and what they wore. Subconsciously, he was making quick __22__ all the time. He couldn’t really __23__ it; it just happened.
For example, he once saw a man whose body was __24__ with tattoos(文身). That man was strong and walked proudly. James imagined his __25__ people up, sometimes with sticks and sometimes with his hands, speaking __26__ words each time he opened his mouth. A troublemaker, perhaps, James __27__ to himself.
Sometimes James felt __28__ for judging others this way, but that feeling was __29__ and never really lasted.
Then, one day, he saw a woman seated alone in a café. The woman was __30__, quite fat, and although she was not __31__, James could tell she was a short lady. __32__, James glanced across at her, looking at her from top to bottom. As his eyes reached her __33__, he got a shock.
There she was, on her left foot, wearing a platform shoe that was at least 3 inches high. __34__ could such a little middle-aged lady who was average-looking at best be so vain as to wear high platforms? Look beautiful? In that short moment of time, __35__ thoughts flowed through James’ mind.
A second later, James’ eyes naturally moved across to the lady’s right foot. And there, he got an even bigger __36__. ----It was a flat shoe. She was not vain; she had a birth defect(缺陷) ----uneven length of her legs. If anything, she deserved __37__ and understanding, certainly not blame, not even mental ones.
James was __38__ with guilt. It was a(n) __39__ lesson he learned about not __40__ conclusions, about not judging people, especially so quickly.
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In any family with more than one child, chidren seem to naturally compete for their parents’ love and attention. Parents say they love every child equally. But is that true?
Susan, founder of a consulting firm in Chicago, interviewed 216 women and found that even though none of her questions asked directly about a parent favoring one child over another, about two-thirds of the women said there was a favored child. And they also remembered their experience when they were young. One of the women said, “My mother always liked my brother better, and he got to go to summer camp in 1968 and I didn’t.”
Plumez, who interviewed parents with both biological children and adoptive children for an adoption book in 2008, found that what matters most is whether your temperaments(性情) are pleasing. “In some cases, parents would say they felt closer to their adopted children,” she says, “Some parents like the children with characters similar to theirs. Two people who are shy and withdrawn might get along well, unless the shy parent doesn’t like that aspect of themselves and they try to push the naturally withdrawn child to be more extroverted.”
It could be a result of gender, birth order or how easy or difficult a child’s temperament may be, but a parent’s different treatment has far-reaching effects. Students have found that less-favored children may suffer emotionally, with decreased self-esteem and behavioral problems in childhood. Favoritism is a reason for the next generation not to like each other.
Experts say it is not realistic to say everyone should be treated equally, because no two people are the same and they relate differently to others.
“It does not mean that parent loves or likes one child more. It has to do with which one of them is independent,” says psychologist Laurie Kramer of the University of Illinois.
小题1:The study carried out by Susan shows that ______.
A.showing favoritism is common in many families |
B.most mothers like their sons better than their daughters |
C.only two-thirds of the women interviewed have more than a child |
D.it is a favoritism that leads to absence of harmony in most families |
A.independent | B.outgoing | C.clever | D.brave |
A.Favoritism is not beneficial to the development of children |
B.Parents’ favoritism to a certain child can’t be avoided in families |
C.Parents may be favoring one of their children and don’t realize it |
D.People are very much shaped by how they were treated by their parents |
A.Parents’ favoritism can affect children deeply |
B.Why do parents show favoritism to children? |
C.Parents should give attention to all their children |
D.Building a harmonious family is important to children |
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