indeed, he did not take the sterile and dishonest line of pretending that in every
I didn't know the answer, ______.
A.neither he did
B.neither did he
C.neither he knew
D.he didn't neither
Popular British author,Charles Dickens’(1812—1870)family could hardly make ends meet. They could only afford to send one of their six children to school. Dickens was not that child. His parents chose to send a daughter, who had a talent for music, to an academy. Then at the age of 12,Dickens’ life took another turn for the worse.
His father, a clerk, was placed in prison for unpaid debts. And, being the oldest male left at home, Dickens took up work at a factory. His horrible experience there became the fuel for his future writing. His father was freed three months later and inherited a small amount of money.Dickens was then sent to school.
From 1836 to 1837, he wrote a monthly series of stories. Thus The Pickwick Papers, came into being, which brought fame to him.
Throughout his career, Dickens covers various situations in his novels. He wrote about the miserable lives of the poor in Oliver Twist, the French Revolution in Tale of Two Cities, and social reform. in Hard Times. He also wrote David Copperfield, a book thought to be modeled on his own life.
“I do not write bitterly or angrily, for I know all these things have worked together to make me what I am,” he once said. His difficult childhood did indeed shape the person he became, as well as his writing career. There are shades of young Dickens in many of his most beloved characters, including David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.
Like the author, all these characters come from poor beginnings and are able to rise above their setbacks and achieve success. u Minds, like bodies, will often fall into an ill-conditioned state from too much comfort.’’ he once wrote. On June 9th, 1870, aged 58,Dickens died, leaving one unfinished work. The words on his tombstone read:“He was a sympathizer to the poor, the suffering and the oppressed,and by his death,one of England’ s greatest writers is lost to the world. ”
The book that first called public attention to Dickens was_____.
A.The Pickwick Papers
B.Oliver Twist
C.Tale of Two Cities
D.David Copperfield
The underlined word “shades”,in the passage means “_____”A.symbols
B.examples
C.signs
D.reminders
How did Dickens see his childhood?A.He felt grateful for it.
B.He felt it a pity that things weren, t in his favor.
C.He loved writing about it.
D.He chose to forget the bitterness about it.
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
A.wasn't he
B.didn't he
C.did he
D.had he
He didn' t fear new ideas, ______ the future.
A.nor feared he
B.nor he did fear
C.nor did he fear
D.nor did fear he
Why did the old man want to sell his shop?
A.Because he didn't like cutting hair any longer.
B.Because he was too old to cut hair.
C.Because he wouldn't like Roger to go there.
D.Because a young man wanted to buy his shop.
—How did your talk with the community resident go?
—________ He seemed to accept my explanation,but he didn’t sign his name here .
A、Perfect!
B、I’m not sure.
C、That’s right.
Born in rude and abject poverty, he never had any education, except what he gave himself, till he was approaching manhood. Not even books wherewith to inform. and train his mind were within his reach. No school, no university, no legal faculty had any part in training his powers. When he became a lawyer and a politician, the years most favourable to continuous study had already passed, and the opportunities he found for reading were very scanty. He knew but few authors in general literature, though he knew those few thoroughly. He taught himself a little mathematics, but he could read no language save his own, and can have had only the faintest acquaintance with European history or with any branch of philosophy.
The want of regular education was not made up for by the persons among whom his lot was cast. Till he was a grown man, he never moved in any society from which he could learn those things with which the mind of an orator to be stored. Even after he had gained some legal practice, there was for many years no one for him to mix with except the petty practitioners of a petty town, men nearly all of whom knew little more than he did himself.
Schools gave him nothing, and society gave him nothing. But he had a powerful intellect and a resolute will. Isolation fostered not only self-reliance but the habit of reflection, and indeed, of prolonged and intense reflection. He made all that he knew a part of himself. His convictions were his own—clear and coherent. He was not positive or opinionated and he did not deny that at certain moments he pondered and hesitated long before he decided on his course. But though he could keep a policy in suspense, waiting for events to guide him, he did not waver. He paused and reconsidered, but it was never his way to go back on a decision once more or to waste time in vain regrets that all he had expected had not been attained. He took advice readily and left many things to his ministers; but he did not lean on his advisers. Without vanity or ostentation, he was always independent, self-contained, prepared to take full responsibility for his acts.
It is said in the second paragraph that Abraham Lincoln ______.
A.was illiterate
B.was never educated
C.was educated very late
D.behaved rudely when he was young
—________ He seemed to accept my explanation, but he didn’t sign hisname here .
A.Perfect!
B.I’ m not sure.
C.That’ s right.