(2019·陝西省部分學校摸底檢測)ThomasHardy,probablythemostsearchinga...

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(2019·陝西省部分學校摸底檢測)Thomas Hardy, probably the most searching and knowledgeable novelist of his time, was born on June 2, 1840, in Dorsetshire, England. He died on January 11, 1928. In his youth, Hardy read much and dreamt of becoming a poet, but he studied and practiced architecture as an assistant to a London architect, winning a prize for design. The fine descriptions of structure in his novels were probably somewhat due to his architectural training.

For five years Hardy worked hard to practice writing poetry, but when he was twenty­seven, he turned to fiction. His first novel finished by 1867, but according to the advice of George Meredith he decided not to publish it. After he abandoned his first novel, his another novel DesperateRemedies, appeared in 1871. During the next twenty­five years he published ten more novels and two collections of short stories.

UndertheGreenwoodTree (1872) was never surpassed (超越) in happy and delicate perfection of art. This and his next novel, APairofBlueEyes (1873), began to show deep irony (諷刺) which is so obvious throughout Hardy's writings.

FarfromtheMaddingCrowd (1874) was his first popular success. It shows Hardy's amazing power of describing nature as symbolic background for his characters, an organic part of the action of his story. This was the earliest of what he called his novels of character and environment, which included TheReturnoftheNative, Tessofthed'Urbervilles, his masterpiece, and JudetheObscure. Not until he was fifty­eight years old was his first collection of poems published, and he was sixty­four when the first part of his drama TheDynasts surprised the literary world.

篇章導讀：本文是一篇記敘文，主要講述了作家Thomas Hardy和他的一些作品。

1．How did Thomas Hardy benefit from his architectural career?

A．He could practice writing while working.

B．He made a lot of money to support his writing.

C．He found material for his novels and poems.

D．He applied architectural knowledge in his novels.

2．What is Thomas Hardy's UndertheGreenwoodTree considered to be?

A．One of his masterworks.

B．His first popular success.

C．His best novel in perfection of art.

D．One of his best collections of poems.

3．Which of the following is one of his novels of character and environment?

A．DesperateRemedies.

B．APairofBlueEyes.

C．Tessofthed'Urbervilles.

D．TheDynasts.

4．What type of writing is this text?

A．A novel.  B．A biography.

C．A book review.  D．A news report.

【回答】

1.D　細節理解題。根據第一段最後一句“The fine descriptions of structure in his novels were probably somewhat due to his architectural training.”可知，在他的小說中細膩的結構描述可能得益於他在建築方面的學習訓練，即他把建築知識應用到了他的小說中，故選D項。

2.C　細節理解題。根據第三段第一句“UndertheGreenwoodTree (1872) was never surpassed (超越) in happy and delicate perfection of art.”可知，《綠樹林下》在藝術的恰當和熟練方面從未被超越。

3.C　細節理解題。根據第四段第三句“This was the earliest of what he called his novels of character and environment, which included TheReturnoftheNative, Tessofthed'Urbervilles, his masterpiece, and JudetheObscure.”可知，Tessofthed'Urbervilles是*格和環境小說，故選C。

4.B　推理判斷題。通讀全文可知，本文主要介紹了作家Thomas Hardy和他的一些作品，屬於人物傳記，故選B。

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