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第4讲 词义猜测题（一） 词义猜测题(一) A (2016·福建厦门毕业班质检)Harper Lee, whose 1961 novel To Kill a Mockingbird on the racial troubles of the American deep south, has died at the age of 89. Until last year, Lee had been something_of_a_one－book_literary_legend. To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies around the world and earned her a Pulitzer prize, remaining a towering presence in American literature. Another novel, Go Set a Watchman, was controversially published in July 2015 as a “sequel” to Mockingbird, though it was later confirmed to be Mockingbirds first draft. But from the moment Mockingbird was published to almost instant success, the author consistently avoided public attention. Lee had lived for several years in a nursing home near the house in which she had grown up in Monroeville, Alabama—the setting for Maycomb of her famous book. Her neighbor for 40 years, Sue Sellers, said, “She was such a private person. All she wanted was privacy, but she didnt get much. There was always somebody following her around.” James Naughtie, BBC Books Editor, commented on the novels of Harper Lee: “I think she stands, particularly among American readers, as someone who shone a light into a very dark place. She was writing at a time when people were beginning to lift the lid on everything in the South which theyd chosen not to understand. That all changed in the 1960s. So I think her status for writing that book in its extraordinarily direct way will remain.” 体裁：记叙文　题材：人物故事　主题：美国著名作家哈珀·李 语篇导读：文章介绍了美国著名女作家哈珀·李及其成名作《杀死一只知更鸟》。 1．What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A．Lee became successful with stories on American south. B．People owe Lees success to luck to some degree. C．Mockingbird makes Lee a wonder in American literature. D．Mockingbird was a bestseller by selling 40m copies. 【解析】　C　词义猜测题。根据画线部分后一句可知，这本书的销量超过4 000万册，且一直在美国文学史上独占鳌头。正是这本书使她成为美国文学史上的一个奇迹，故选C项。 2．What does “Maycomb” in Paragraph 3 probably refer to? A．A nursing home. B．Lees hometown. C．A fi