2015-2016学年高一英语下册知识点同步练习题29.docxVIP

语篇训练卷（八） Unit 3 Learning about Language I ?阅读理解 ■4AX： OXI.F,R A S F R；MARIEAxtolnetteDoes kno wledge of a writer private life help to expla in his works? It ■4 AX： OXI. F,R A S F R； MARIE Axtolnette I argue it sends a good deal of light on Pin ter, the dramatis剧 作家）. I start from the belief that all information about a writer is helpful. In fact, one of the pleasures of writi ng Pin ter biography was discover ing 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 Pin ter scholar, arguing that I had reduced the value of Pin ters Betrayal by linking it to the dramatist seven-year-long love affair with Joa n Bakewell. But, as I saw it, that was simply the playorig in. All I had don e, I hoped, remin ded people that Pin ter was a writer who would make use of his own life experienee. That point can also be seen from Antonia book. Theres an in terest ing acco unt of a dinner with Tom Stoppard where Pin ter says that he doesnpla n his characterslives and the n asks his fellow dramatist, “Dortyou find they take you over sometimes? ”，to which Stoppard firmly replies, “ No” That says a loOne reason whyThe Homecomingis a great play is that Pin ter allows his characters, almost uncon sciously, to take over. Despite Stoppard s many strengths, he tends to keep his characters un der a much tighter con trol. Aga in, there an eye-ope ning passage in Antonias book where she recalls a mome nt in 1983 whe n Pin ter refers back to his relati on ship with his former wife, Vivien, “ While she was alive if you think about it, so much of my work was about un happy froze n married relatio nships” In short— as Stoppard once wrote—information, in itself, about anything, is light. And modern biography, particularly in the hands of masters, has been helpful to literature by opening writers lives to public eyes. For that reason, among many others, I welcome Antonia Frasers book. What is TRUE about