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Does knowledge of a writer's private life help to explain his works? It's an age-old question, but it's
also one in which interest is aroused (激起) again by Antonia Fraser's book about her life with Harold
Pinter, Must You Go?. The book is obviously a personal account rather than a study of the plays. All the
same, I'd argue it throws a good deal of light on Pinter the dramatist (剧作家).
I start from the belief that all information about a writer is helpful. In fact, one of the pleasures of
writing Pinter's biography was discovering that nearly all his plays were started by some strong personal
memory. This got me into trouble with some scholars. I remember Martin Esslin, a great Pinter scholar,
arguing that I had reduced the value of Pinter's Betrayal by linking it to the dramatist's seven-year-long
love affair with Joan Bake well. But, as I saw it, that was simply the play's origin. All I had done, I hoped, was to remind people that Pinter was a writer who would make use of his own life experience.
That point can also be seen from Antonia's book. There's an interesting account of a dinner with Tom
Stoppard where Pinter says that he doesn't plan his characters' lives and then asks his fellow dramatist:
"Don't you find they take you over sometimes?", to which Stoppard firmly replies: "No." That says a lot.
One reason why The Homecoming is a great play is that Pinter allows his characters, almost unconsciously, to take over. Despite Stoppard's many strengths, he tends to keep his characters under a much tighter
control.
Again, there's an eye-opening passage in Antonia's book where she recalls a moment in 1983 when
Pinter refers back to his relationship with his former wife, Vivien: "While she was alive, if you think about
it, so much of my work was about unhappy frozen married relationships."
In short-as Stoppard once wrote-information, in itself, about anything, is light. And modern biography, particularly in the hands of masters, has been helpful to literature by opening writers' lives to public eyes.
For that reason, among many others, I welcome Antonia Fraser's book.
B. It carries Antonia's views about biography.
C. It is helpful to the study of Pinter's works.
D. It includes serious studies of Pinter's works.
B. The literary value of the accounts of Pinter's life.
C. The truthfulness of the contents of Antonia's book.
D. The truthfulness of Pinter's love affair with Joan Bakewell.
B. Stoppard has more strengths than Pinter.
C. They often have dinners together.
D. They often argue with each other.
B. a book review
C. a news report
D. a biography
B.putting different parts of something together to cure the patient
C.operating on somebody without medical instruments
D.stealing dead bodies from graves to cut into pieces
B.Hunter was learning more about how out bodies worked
C.Hunter found new ways of operations
D.Hunter was very conscientious and responsible
One day I was doing an experiment in front of the classroom, wearing my favorite shirt. A voice came, “Nice shirt”. Then another 1 said, “That shirt belonged to my dad. Jimmy’s mother works for my family. We meant to throw the shirt away, but gave 2 to her instead.” Hearing the words, I was embarrassed. It was Mike. Mom worked for his family.
In the evening, I told my mom what had happened. She was silent for a while and then called her employer, “I will 3 work for your family.” That night, she knew her life’s 4 was something greater. She decided to find a more meaningful job.
The next day she 5 with the headmaster of a local public school. She was told that she could not teach without a proper education. So Mom decided to 6 a university.
A year later, she went back to the headmaster. He said, “You are serious, aren’t you? I think I have a 7 for you as a teacher’s assistant. This opportunity deals with some mentally disabled children with little or 8 chance of learning.” Mom accepted the opportunity very 9 .
For almost three years, she saw many teachers give up on the children and 0 , feeling upset. Then one day, the headmaster 11 in her classroom, saying, “We have watched how you 12 the children over the last three years and admire your hard-working spirit. We all agree that you should be the 13 of this class.”
My mom spent over 20 years there. I was proud of her 14 she never gave up and also showed me how to deal with 15 situations. During her career, she was chosen as “Teacher of the Year”.
【小题1】
A.shout | B.noise | C.sound | D.voice |
A.it | B.them | C.one | D.this |
A.even so | B.in reality | C.no longer | D.more than |
A.goal | B.trick | C.problem | D.routine |
A.ran | B.met | C.stayed | D.worked |
A.visit | B.design | C.attend | D.start |
A.condition | B.function | C.promotion | D.position |
A.no | B.much | C.big | D.great |
A.angrily | B.bitterly | C.eagerly | D.strangely |
A.come | B.leave | C.return | D.succeed |
A.went up | B.took up | C.handed up | D.turned up |
A.accuse | B.blame | C.treat | D.cheat |
A.monitor | B.teacher | C.headmaster | D.librarian |
A.because | B.once | C.unless | D.if |
A.pleasing | B.challenging | C.exciting | D.amazing |
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑.
Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants(居民)of a country. If tourists create(引起)too much traffic, the inhabitants become angry and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country's economy(经济).It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the health and happiness of local(当地的)inhabitants.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country's economy can suffer.
On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, air-ports, first-class roads, and other support facilities(设施)needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourist hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not use most of the time, the owner of the hotel lose money.
Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers(阴沟)to handle waste and water. All of those support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.
1.Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraph that goes before this passage?
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A.It's very important to develop tourism.
B.Building roads and hotels is very important.
C.Support facilities are highly necessary.
D.Planning is very important to tourism.
2.Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ________.
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A.a bad effect on other industries
B.a change of tourists' customs
C.overcrowdedness of places of interest
D.pressure(压力)on traffic
3.Not enough tourism can cause ________.
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A.more people to lose their jobs
B.a decrease(减少)in tourist attractions
C.the high cost of support facilities
D.a rise in price and fall in pay
4.The word“handle”in the last paragraph most probably means ________.
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