2017-2018学年高中英语创新方案外研版必修5：课时达标训练(十二).docVIP

Module 3　课时达标训练(十二) Ⅰ.阅读理解 Jane Austen (1775－1817), one of Englands most famous novelists, was never publicly recognised as a writer during her lifetime. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire and the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. She was mainly educated at home, benefiting from her fathers library. Her closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra. Though Austen lived a quiet life, she had unusual access to the greater world, mainly through her brothers, Francis and Charles, officers in the Royal Navy, who served on ships around the world and saw action in the Napoleonic Wars. As a child Austen began writing comic stories, now referred to as the juvenilia (少年时代作品)．Her first mature work, written when she was about 19, was a novella (中篇小说), Lady Susan, written in epistolary (书信体的) form. This early fiction was preserved by her family but wasnt published until long after her death. In her early twenties Austen wrote the novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, one of her best-known novels, which was finished in 1797. When Austen was 25 years old, her father retired, and she and Cassandra moved with their parents to Bath. During the five years she lived in Bath, Austen began one novel, The Watsons, which she never completed. In 1811, Austen published Sense and Sensibility, which identified the author as “A Lady”. Pride and Prejudice followed in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814, and Emma in 1815. For some reason, all of them were published not using her name. Austen began writing the novel that would be called Persuasion in 1815 and finished it the following year, by which time, however, her health was beginning to fail. Austen died on July 18, 1817 because of her illness and a few days later she was buried in Winchester Cathedral. 1．How many boys were there in the Austens? A．Two. B．Six. C．Seven. D．Eight. 2．How did Jane Austen get her education when she was young? A．She studied at home in her fathe