《广安市2016高考英语完形填空和阅读理解一轮选练3及答案》.docVIP

完形填空Charles Dickens was born in 1812. He was__1__of a clerk in a government office. When Charles was still a little boy, his father was sent to prison for__2__. In those days, men who__3__quite small amounts had to stay in__4__until the debt was paid. When Charles was 12, he had to work in a factory. The only formal education he__5__was a two-year schooling at a school for__6__children. His career as a__7__of novels began in 1833 with short stories and essays(散文)in periodicals, and in 1837, when he was 25, his short stories were__8__into the novel “The Pickwick Papers”， which made him the most__9__author of his time in England. Charles Dickens had__10__of the unhappy life of many poor people. In years of hard work in various__11__jobs, Charles met many people, young and old, rich and poor, happy and__12__. He had unusual energy and unusual powers of observation. Dickens__13__were much better or much worse than they would be in real life. The novels of Dickens are__14__of life, observation, and energy, and his own energy seemed__15__. Many of his novels like “Oliver Twist, David Copper field, Great Expectations”， __16__attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago. Dickens was loved by the broad mass of the people. “A Tale of Two Cities” is one of his famous novels. It was__17__in 1859. In this novel Dickens gives a vivid description of the French Bourgeois Revolution that__18__in 1789. His sudden death in 1870__19__thousands of people who were waiting for his next book. Instead, they bought and wept over(为……哭泣)a picture called“The Empty Chair”，__20__the desk and chair that he would no longer use. 1．A.the friend　　　　　　 B．the son C．the writer D．the daughter 答案：B　Charles Dickens出生于1812年，他是一个政府小职员的儿子。 2．A.murder B．debt C．crime D．stealing 答案：B　从下文特别是“...until the debt was paid”．可知，“……他爸爸因欠债而被关进了监狱”。 3．A.earned B．made C．owed D．stole 答案：C　由下文可知，此处是“当时，哪怕是欠很少数目的债也要蹲监狱直到还清债务”。 4．A.prison B．school C．street D．church 答案：A　st