题目内容
―It remains to be seen the plan can be put into practice.
―It depends on your determination.
A.whether B.where C.how D.that
This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar Allan Poe.Edgar Allan Poe,whose life was 21 and seemingly unhappy,wrote stories and poems of mystery and 22 ,insanity (疯狂) and death.Edgar went to live with the family of a wealthy Richmond businessman named John Allan after both his parents died.John Allan never officially 23 him as a son,but the boy became known as Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar A1lan Poe did something 24 for writers of his time:he used a narrator in a story to 25 what was happening.Edgar Allan Poe is also remembered as the father of modern 26 fiction,stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and other 27 .Arthur Conan Doyle,creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, wrote about how Poe 28 other crime writers:”Their main art must trace back to those admirable stories of Monsieur Dupin”.Dupin is a 29 that appears in a series of Allan Poe’s detective stories.
Allan Poe was born in 1 809 and died in 1 849.Every year on January nineteenth,Poe’s birthday,a man dressed in black 30 .His face is covered.He places a bottle of wine and three roses on Poe’s grave.No one really wants to know the visitor’s identity.They prefer that it remain a mystery,much like Edgar Allan Poe himself.
21.A.short | B.long | C.boring | D.simple |
22.A.happiness | B.science | C.society | D.terror |
23.A.adopted | B.adapted | C.treated | D.considered |
24.A.ordinary | B.horrible | C.favorite | D.unusual |
25.A.play | B.sing | C.describe | D.recite |
26.A.horror | B.detective | C.love | D.adventure |
27.A.accidents | B.crimes | C.events | D.incidents |
28.A.commented | B.influenced | C.judged | D.criticized |
29.A.writer | B.poet | C.character | D.actor |
30.A.speaks | B.performs | C.appears | D.dies |