Charles Dickens：A Man of Demonic Energy

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閱讀理解

1. What inspires Dickens' mind to write so many famous works？

A. His memories of unacceptable childhood experience.

B. His father's pathologically irresponsible with money.

C. His poor education experience and his poor family.

D. His demonic energy about sporting and walking.

2. According to the second paragraph， we know

A. Dickens often went on a trip to forget his work

B. Dickens loved his children too much to write his books

C. Dickens worked so hard that he was thought to be a superman

D. Dickens only wrote one book or one journalism at a time

3. How many newspapers and magazines were started by Dickens according to the passage？

4. What attitude does the author hold about Dickens？

A. Admiration.

B. Anger.

C. Mercy.

D. Disappointment.

5. From the last sentence， we know John Stuart Mill _______.

A. thought highly of Dickens' demonic energy

B. disliked Dickens' demonic appearance

C. ignored Dickens' writing ability

D. admired Dickens' special face

答案與解析

1.A。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段提到“The fuel that fed the furnace of Dickens' mind was his memories of his poor childhood”（狄更斯的童年生活很糟糕，對這段生活的記憶猶如燃料一般，點燃了他思想的火爐）?？芍狝正確。

2.C。推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段首句提到“Dickens grew up to be a man of demonic energy：it's like he was bitten by a radioactive scrivener that gave him superpowers.”（狄更斯長大后，成為一個擁有惡魔般旺盛精力的人：他好像被一個擁有放射性能量的抄寫員咬了一下，從此被賦予了超能力），以及下文提到他會同時寫兩本書，一本又一本，馬不停蹄地工作，可知C正確。

3.D。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段提到“He founded and ran newspapers and magazines without seeming to notice it-Master Humphrey's Clock，The Daily News，Household Words，All the Year Round.”（狄更斯還無心插柳地創(chuàng)辦并經(jīng)營過一些報刊，比如《漢普雷老爺?shù)溺姟贰睹咳招侣劇贰都页Ｔ挕泛汀兑荒晁募尽罚┛芍?/p>

4.A。作者態(tài)度題。根據(jù)文章第二段作者提到“As a working writer who，like Dickens，writes novels and journalism，I can only read about his output with awe.”（雖然我和狄更斯一樣，也是一個寫小說和新聞報道的職業(yè)作家，可面對他的高產(chǎn)，我只有肅然起敬的份）可知。

5.A。推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一段“John Stuart Mill said he had'a face of dingy blackguardism irradiated with genius.”（約翰·斯圖亞特·穆勒曾說狄更斯“長了一張無賴的臭臉，卻散發(fā)出天才的光芒”）可知A正確。

難句分析

1. As a working writer who， like Dickens， writes novels and journalism，I can only read about his output with awe.作為一個同樣寫小說和新聞報道的職業(yè)作家，對于狄更斯的高產(chǎn)量，我只能表示敬畏。

who引導定語從句，而且是被插入語like Dickens隔開。

2. The weird energy that possessed him comes through in contemporary descriptions of Dickens， of which there are some eloquent ones-Dickens was fortunate in his describers. John Stuart Mill said he had“a face of dingy blackguardism irradiated with genius.”他同時代的人在描述他的時候無一不會提及他身體里的這種古怪的能量，其中不乏生動有趣的描述——在那些人口中，狄更斯是幸運的。約翰·斯圖亞特·穆勒就說他有著“一張無賴卻散發(fā)著天才光芒的臉”。

這里有兩個句子，都是復合句。第一句中that possessed him為限制性定語從句，修飾the weird energy；后面of which there are...ones為非限制性定語從句，先行詞為descriptions。第二句則是包含了一個賓語從句，省略了that。