时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:中级类英语听力


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 When Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, sat down to write the story of an orphaned 1 girl sent from India to the Yorkshire moors 2, where she helps herself and others find redemption and health by reviving a forgotten garden, she composed it not in the north of England but in her new home on Long Island. Born in 1849 and raised in Manchester, England into a middle class family, she moved as a teenager to Tennessee when her widowed mother decided 3 they should emigrate at the end of the Civil War. Although they were poor, Burnett was delighted at giving up the grit 4 and smoke of a factory city for the stunning 5 landscapes of eastern Tennessee. In America she soon began to publish her romantic stories in some of the most popular magazines, eventually becoming hugely famous when she published her sixth novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy, in 1886. From the first her work had never been turned down by any publisher, but with Fauntleroy she became, and remained, the highest paid woman writer of her time, churning out books and stories with great regularity 6. Despite the enormous success of Fauntleroy, and later of A Little Princess, most of her novels and plays were not for a juvenile 7 audience.


1. When Frances Hodgson Burnett was a teenager, where did she and her mother move to?


 Manchester, England


 Tennessee


 India


 Yorkshire moors


 


2. What kind of stories did she write that were published in popular magazines?


 Romance


 True crime


 Drama


 Comedy


 


3. What was her sixth novel?


 The Secret Garden


 A little Princess


 Little Lord Fauntleroy


 None of the above


 


 


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1. Tennessee


2. Romance


3. Little Lord Fauntleroy


 

1 orphaned
[计][修]孤立
  • Orphaned children were consigned to institutions. 孤儿都打发到了福利院。
  • He was orphaned at an early age. 他幼年时便成了孤儿。
2 moors
v.停泊,系泊(船只)( moor的第三人称单数 )
  • the North York moors 北约克郡的漠泽
  • They're shooting grouse up on the moors. 他们在荒野射猎松鸡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
4 grit
n.沙粒,决心,勇气;v.下定决心,咬紧牙关
  • The soldiers showed that they had plenty of grit. 士兵们表现得很有勇气。
  • I've got some grit in my shoe.我的鞋子里弄进了一些砂子。
5 stunning
adj.极好的;使人晕倒的
  • His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
  • The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。
6 regularity
n.规律性,规则性;匀称,整齐
  • The idea is to maintain the regularity of the heartbeat.问题就是要维持心跳的规律性。
  • He exercised with a regularity that amazed us.他锻炼的规律程度令我们非常惊讶。
7 juvenile
n.青少年,少年读物;adj.青少年的,幼稚的
  • For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人,他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
  • Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。
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