Question

根據短文內容，從下框的A-F選項中選出能概括每一段主題的最佳選項。選項中有一項為多余項。

A．The secret of the writer’s success

B．A writer with enduring popularity

C．Well-received creation to encourage Brits

D．The insight into human nature

E. Writing styles in different stages

F. The story appreciate for school students

1. ____________

Charles Dickens is often thought of as one of England’s great writers. Yet for many his language is old-fashioned and his story plots often improbable. Why, Dickens, out of so many other great English writers, has made the list? How then to explain Dickens’s enduring popularity?

2. _____________

One reason undoubtly is the British government’s insistence that every child studies a Dickens novel at school. Alongside Willian Shakespeare, Charles Dickens is a compulsory (必讀的)writer on every English literature school reading list. His stories, though often over-long by today’s standard, are superbly written moral tales. They are filled with colorful characters.

3. ______________

But what makes his books stand out from other English writers is his insight into human nature. Dickens, like Shakespeare, tells us truths about human behavior that are as true to citizens of the 21st century as they were to his readers in the 19th century. Readers have returned to Dickens’s books again and again over the years to see what he has to say about readers’ own time.

4. _______________

The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time. A dark story about greed and money, it was the perfect story to illustrate the bad times. No surprise then that it was Dickens Britons turned to, during the economic crisis last year, to make sense of world rapidly falling apart.

5. _______________

Readers of the 19th and early 20th century usually prized Dickens’s earlier novels for their humor and pathos(悲痛). While recognizing the virtues of these books, critics today tend to rank more highly the later works because of  their formal coherence and acute perception(洞察力) of the human condition. For as long as Dickens’s novels have something to say to modern audiences, it seems likely that he will remain one of Britain’s best loved writers.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 B

 F

 D

 C

 E

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了狄更斯的小說為什么經久不衰，一是它是學校必讀的文學作品。二是作者能夠洞察人的本性。三是作者的幽默與洞察力。

 根據How then to explain Dickens’s enduring popularity?故選B。

 根據One reason undoubtly is the British government’s insistence that every child studies a Dickens novel at school. 他的小說是學生必讀的作品，故選F。

 根據But what makes his books stand out from other English writers is his insight into human nature.他能夠洞察人性，故選D。

 根據The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time.故選C。

 根據Readers of the 19th and early 20th century usually prized Dickens’s earlier novels for their humor and pathos(悲痛). While recognizing the virtues of these books, critics today tend to rank more highly the later works because of  their formal coherence and acute perception(洞察力) of the human condition.故選E。

考點：信息匹配。

點評：信息匹配題了解了各個人物所包含的不同關鍵信息后就要有針對性地對短文進行尋讀，對有關信息進行快速定位、匹配。基于“信息匹配題”的特點，最好用“逆向”法，即先讀匹配項，再讀短文。題頭（如“閱讀下列……”,“以下是……”）常暗示匹配對象信息。