【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ikes D. has never been to CTHE BRONTE FAMILYYorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels of the 19th century. There 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 for 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 selfeducated. 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 ine. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor, Emily, Wuthering Heights。 and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher, 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 work. 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 animallike. 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 her 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(肺結(jié)核) as her sisters had. did the Bronte sisters want to do for Branwell Bronte?A. Help him write stories. B. Help him get trained in art.C. Teach him how to draw well. D. Teach him how to educate himself. know from the text that____.A. Jane Eyre was published in 1847B. Cgarlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in allC. the Bronte sisters received good educationD. Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writing of the following was published after the death of its writer?A. Shirley. B. Villette. C. Agnes Grey. D. The professor. underlined words “the other two” in the 5th paragraph refer to______.A. Shirley and Villette B. The Professor and Agnes GreyC. Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights D. The Professor and Wuthering Heights do we know about the Bronte sisters from the text?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.DTechnology today has stolen away our voices and robbed our children of memories. I’ve been keeping count of how often people sing around the house these days. The fact is, they don’t.My earliest memories are of my mother sang lullabies(催眠曲) in a gentle low voice as she rocked each infant in turn. She said she “didn’t have a singing voice,” but her low, wavering alto will always mean fort to me. Every time I have sat through the night with a feverish baby or held a preschooler through a nightmare, the melodies returned, words appearing and disappearing like fragments of a dream but held together by the hum(低聲吟唱) of love.Today, young mothers are routinely presented with lullaby tapes at the baby shower. When baby cries, the idea goes, they will be able to switch on the hightech audio system and the little one will drift off with the voices of strangers in his ears, perfectly on pitch. If I had my way, new parents would learn the songs themselves, throw out their stereos, and give their child the gift of their own sleepy voices through the midnight hours.These days, when we go on a trip, my daughters take along tiny personal stereos and headphones. They are lost in their private worlds, and I can’t help wishing that at least here, in the car my girls would be forced to listen to their mother’s voice raised in lostthewords again, sure I’m outoftune songs that they might then pass down to another generation. Those sophisticated earphones have robbed them of something I think every kid should carry from childhood car trips into adulthood.I drove away from that party humming, and all the way home the good old songs kept tumbling out. Damn it(該死), I thought, why did I ever stop singing in the car and start turning on the radio instead? Why don’t I sing any more while I’m doing the dishes? I’m going to yank(拉扯) those stereo wires right out of the wall when I get home. We’re going to sing grace before meals, sing carols around the piano, sing in the shower instead of switching on that waterproof radio that stole away our voices and our souls. author hates today’s technology becau