2020版新高考英语考前保分训练江苏版课件：专题3 阅读理解 第4节 .pptxVIP

第4节　记叙文;;Dickens was born in Portsmouth，on England’s southern coast.His father was a clerk in the British navy pay office—a respectable position，but with little social status.His paternal grandparents，a steward and a housekeeper possessed even less status，having been servants，and Dickens later concealed their background.Dickens’ mother supposedly came from a more respectable family.Yet two years before Dicken’s birth，his mother’s father was caught stealing and fled to Europe，never to return.The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Ware