20xx年全國(guó)碩士研究生入學(xué)統(tǒng)考英語(yǔ)真題及答案(下)(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837, and was first published in book form in 1837. [D]Charles Dickens is probably the bestknown and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and social reformer. Dickens crafted plex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society. [E]Soon after his fathers release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament. At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporters eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything ic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines. [F] Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on Englands southern coast. His father was a clerk in the British navy pay office a respectable position, but wish little social status. His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background. Dickens mother supposedly came from a more respectable family. Yet two years before Dickens birth, his mothers father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return. The familys increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warrens Blacking Warehouse, a shoepolish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as the young gentleman. His father was then imprisoned for debt. The humiliations of his fathers imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens greatest wound and became his deepest secret. He could not confide them even to his wife, although they provide the unacknowledged foundation of his fiction. [G] After Pickwick, Dickens plunged into a bleaker world. In Oliver Twist, e traces an orphans progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London. Nicholas Nickleby, his next novel, bines the darkness of Oliver Twist with the sunlight of Pickwick. The popularity of these novels consolidated Dichens as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters. D 41. 42. 43. 44. B 45. 41. [F] Dickens was born in Portsmouth 42. [E] Soon after his fathers release from prison 43. [A]The first published sketch 44. [C]Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared 45. [G] After Pickwick, Dickens plunged into a bleaker world Part C Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) The growth of the use of English as the world`s primary language for international munication has obviously been conti
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