2015届高考英语第二轮专项突破复习题11.docVIP

温馨提示： 此套题为Word版，请按住Ctrl,滑动鼠标滚轴，调节合适的观看比例，答案解析附后。关闭Word文档返回原板块。 语篇训练卷(八) Unit 3　Learning about Language. 阅读理解 ADoes knowledge of a writer’s private life help to explain his works? It’s an age-old question, but it’s also one in which interest is aroused(激起)again by Antonia Fraser’s book about her life with Harold Pinter, Must You Go? The book is obviously a personal account rather than a study of the plays. All the same, I’d argue it sends a good deal of light on Pinter, the dramatist(剧作家). I start from the belief that all information about a writer is helpful. In fact, one of the pleasures of writing Pinter’s biography was discovering that nearly all his plays were started by some strong personal memory. This got me into trouble with some critics. I remember Martin Esslin, a great Pinter scholar, arguing that I had reduced the value of Pinter’ s Betrayal by linking it to the dramatist’s seven-year-long love affair with Joan Bakewell. But, as I saw it, that was simply the play’s origin. All I had done, I hoped, reminded people that Pinter was a writer who would make use of his own life experience. That point can also be seen from Antonia’s book. There’s an interesting account of a dinner with Tom Stoppard where Pinter says that he doesn’t plan his characters’ lives and then asks his fellow dramatist, “Don’t you find they take you over sometimes? ”, to which Stoppard firmly replies, “No. ”That says a lot. One reason why The Homecoming is a great play is that Pinter allows his characters, almost unconsciously, to take over. Despite Stoppard’ s many strengths, he tends to keep his characters under a much tighter control. Again, there’s an eye-opening passage in Antonia’s book where she recalls a moment in 1983 when Pinter refers back to his relationship with his former wife, Vivien, “While she was alive, if you think about it, so much of my work was about unhappy frozen married relationships. ” In short—as Stoppard once wrote—information, in itself, about anythin