摘要: --Alice. you feed ihe bird today,_____ ? --But I fed it yesterday. A. do you B. will you C. didn't you D. don't you

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Too Much Happiness was written by Alice Munrowinner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literatureone of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction and the owner of the Man Booker Price for FictionHer stories have appeared in The New YorkerThe Atlantic Monthlyand other publicationsand her collections have been translated into thirteen languages

? The main character is Sophia Kovalevskya great Russian mathematicianwriter and advocator拥护者)of womens rights in the late nineteenth century. After visiting her lover Maxsim Kovalevsky in Rivierashe travels in Europeending up in Swedenwhere she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematicianThe book writes about her journey from Riviera to Sweden

??? The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual(知识分子)woman to achieve success and happinessHoweverwhen she is going to dieSophia saystoo much happiness”.I think its irony(讽*11的).As reading the storyshe has too many mental problems·Firstas a woman mathematicianshe was born in a wrong time She was married to Vladimir Kovalevsky without lovecalleda white marriage”.She explained thatno a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country.”She satisfied her marriage to seek her career

??? Furthermorewhen she sees a man look like Maxsim in the stationshe says to herself,“of courseit would not be Maxsimwhat could he be doing in Paris?”She doesnt want to face the fact because she doesnt want to lose her hopeShe believes they will marry in springAnd in her letter to Julia she says:“it is to be happiness after allhappiness after allHappiness.”She is cheating herself. In factthe man does not want to marry herand the happiness she expected doesnt take place at all

??? Finally, I conclude that the end must be a tragedy(悲剧).From the very first pages the atmosphere is gloomy黯淡的)and threatening.One of us will die this year.”“Because we have gone walking in a graveyard(墓地)on the first day of the New Year.Some pages further,“a black cat across their pathall reflect it will be a bad endingNot because she had some problems with her lungbut because her life does not bring her happinessand because of these disharmony things that happen in her life

1.We can infer from the passage that__·

ASophia was born in a wrong time and was mentally ill

Bwomen were not fairly treated in Europe in Sophias time

CSophia loved travelling around Europe to meet `different people

Dunmarried women were forbidden to learn mathematics at that time

2.The underlined phrasethe factin Paragraph 4 most probably refers to the fact that

Aher husband refuses to divorce Bshe cant teach in university

Cshe falls in love with Maxsim DMaxsim doesnt want to marry her

3.Why does the author name this book Too Much Happiness

AIt is used to suggest that the story must be a comedy

BIts a phrase repeatedly used by Sophia herself to her friend

CIts used in an ironic way to show that Sophia isnt happy at all

DIts to show Sophia is very happy to achieve success in her career

4.What can we conclude from Sophias experience

AIts hard for an educated woman to achieve success in Europe at that time

BRussian women were not allowed to go abroad without a white marriage

CMarried women could travel freely across Europe in the late nineteenth century

DSeeing a black cat across the path would bring people to death in the end

5.In a newspaperthis passage is most probably in the section of____

A. Entertainment B. Travel CCareer D. Culture

 

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