Question

根据短文内容，从下框的A-F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。

A．The secret of the writer’s success

B．A writer with enduring popularity

C．Well-received creation to encourage Brits

D．The insight into human nature

E. Writing styles in different stages

F. The story appreciate for school students

1. ____________

Charles Dickens is often thought of as one of England’s great writers. Yet for many his language is old-fashioned and his story plots often improbable. Why, Dickens, out of so many other great English writers, has made the list? How then to explain Dickens’s enduring popularity?

2. _____________

One reason undoubtly is the British government’s insistence that every child studies a Dickens novel at school. Alongside Willian Shakespeare, Charles Dickens is a compulsory (必读的)writer on every English literature school reading list. His stories, though often over-long by today’s standard, are superbly written moral tales. They are filled with colorful characters.

3. ______________

But what makes his books stand out from other English writers is his insight into human nature. Dickens, like Shakespeare, tells us truths about human behavior that are as true to citizens of the 21st century as they were to his readers in the 19th century. Readers have returned to Dickens’s books again and again over the years to see what he has to say about readers’ own time.

4. _______________

The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time. A dark story about greed and money, it was the perfect story to illustrate the bad times. No surprise then that it was Dickens Britons turned to, during the economic crisis last year, to make sense of world rapidly falling apart.

5. _______________

Readers of the 19th and early 20th century usually prized Dickens’s earlier novels for their humor and pathos(悲痛). While recognizing the virtues of these books, critics today tend to rank more highly the later works because of  their formal coherence and acute perception(洞察力) of the human condition. For as long as Dickens’s novels have something to say to modern audiences, it seems likely that he will remain one of Britain’s best loved writers.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 B

 F

 D

 C

 E

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了狄更斯的小说为什么经久不衰，一是它是学校必读的文学作品。二是作者能够洞察人的本性。三是作者的幽默与洞察力。

 根据How then to explain Dickens’s enduring popularity?故选B。

 根据One reason undoubtly is the British government’s insistence that every child studies a Dickens novel at school. 他的小说是学生必读的作品，故选F。

 根据But what makes his books stand out from other English writers is his insight into human nature.他能够洞察人性，故选D。

 根据The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time.故选C。

 根据Readers of the 19th and early 20th century usually prized Dickens’s earlier novels for their humor and pathos(悲痛). While recognizing the virtues of these books, critics today tend to rank more highly the later works because of  their formal coherence and acute perception(洞察力) of the human condition.故选E。

考点：信息匹配。

点评：信息匹配题了解了各个人物所包含的不同关键信息后就要有针对性地对短文进行寻读，对有关信息进行快速定位、匹配。基于“信息匹配题”的特点，最好用“逆向”法，即先读匹配项，再读短文。题头（如“阅读下列……”,“以下是……”）常暗示匹配对象信息。