2018-2019学年高二英语外研版选修七课时阅读训练 十二 Module 3 Period 4 .docVIP

课时阅读训练 十二 Module 3　Period 4 Ⅰ. 完形填空 Charles Dickens was born in 1812. He was the　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 Copperfield, 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 Bourgeios 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. ? 【语篇概述】本文记叙了查尔斯·狄更斯的生平及他的主要作品。 1. A. friend B. son C. writer D. daughter 【解析】选B。Charles Dickens出生于1812年, 从下文可知他是一个政府职员的儿子。 2. A. murder B. debt C. crime D. stealing 【解析】选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 【解析】选C。由下文可