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The earliest surviving Jane Austen's manuscript (手稿),a handwritten draft for a book with the name of The Watsons that was never published ,sold for 993,250 pounds in the Lon- don sale.
The sale of The Watsons draft has provided a chance to have a deep understanding of how the author wrote it and her reworkings on it, which this manuscript uniquely displays. Probably written in 1804, the novel tells the story of Emma Watson, the youngest of four sisters who is raised by a wealthy aunt but then forced to return to her family while two of her sisters search for husbands.
The novel is only a quarter complete but critic Margaret Drabble described it as “a delightful and highly complete novel, which must surely have proved the equal of her other six novels, had she finished it. ”
The Watsons contains themes found in other Austen's works and also displays her wisdom. The Watsons displays Jane Austen's unique writing style and the influence of this novel on her later works can clearly be seen. It was Austen's only literary work during the period between finishing Northanger Abbey in 1799 and starting Mansfield Park in 1811. It is not known why Austen abandoned the manuscript, though it was possibly related to her father's death in 1805.
Besides the sale of The Watsons in the London sale, the earliest rules of soccer, part of the archive (档案)of the oldest football club in the world, Sheffield FC, sold for 881,250 pounds, which attracted many people.
The Sheffield soccer sale included handwritten drafts from 1858 and the only existing copy of the printed "Rules, Regulations Laws of the Sheffield Football Club” dating from 1859, two years after the club was formed.
64. According to the text, the value of the sale of The Watsons draft lies in ____.
A. making more readers interested in the novel
B making readers know the author's writing process
C. making readers know the author's sad life better
D. making readers know the story of the novel better
65. It can be inferred from what Margaret Drabble said that ____.
A. most of the novel, The Watsons, had been finished
B. Austen wrote seven novels at the same time
C. Austen's father's death made her give up completing The Watsons
D. it is a pity that The Watsons was not finished
66. Which is TRUE about The Watsons?
A. It was Austen's first novel.
B. It was Austen's only literary work.
C. The writing style in it influenced that in Northanger Abbey.
D. It has similar themes to other Austen's works.
67. What character do the two sales share in common?
A. Both of them have handwritten drafts.
B. Both of them date back to the 18th century.
C. Both of them were widely read at the same time.
D. Both of them told us the reason for writing them.
BD DA
Language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change, either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.
There are several major language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.
1. The early language had ______.
A.a lot of problems |
B.words and easy grammar |
C.words but no grammar |
D.grammar but not many words |
2.In the next few hundred years we can expect language to ______.
A.stay exactly the same |
B.change a great deal |
C.change only a little |
D.add more words and drop some grammar |
3.What this article shows is that ______.
A.languages change fast |
B.languages really don’t want to change |
C.language changes with changes of society |
D.Spanish and English change |
4. From this article we can see that ______.
A.language can change very slowly or very quickly |
B.Though our life changes, our language won’t change. |
C.we should give our plants new names |
D.English and Spanish are the only languages that have changes |