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第二篇A Tale of Scottish Rural Life Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song（1932）was voted “t

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A Tale of Scottish Rural Life

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song（1932）was voted “the best Scottish novel of all time” by Scotland's reading public in 2005. Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspens of the lives of Scotland’s poor rural farmers. It has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades.

The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie, in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War l. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the community and a little outside it.

Grassic Gibbon gives US the most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine（女主人公）. We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father；experience tragedy（her mother's suicide and murder of her twin children）; and learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man.

But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris. 1t is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening section tells of Kinraddie's long history, in a language that imitates the place’s changing patterns of speech and writing.

The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. It is told from Chris’ point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where everybody knows eye, body else’s business and nothing is ever forgotten.

Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World War l. Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away Chris’ husband, Ewan Tavendale. The war finally kills Ewan, but not in the way his widow is told. In fact, the Germans aren’t responsible for his death, but his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle.

If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also looks ahead. It is a “Sunset Song” but is concerned too with the new Kinraddie, indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.

36 What is Sunset Song mainly about？

A The First World War.

B The beauty of the sunset.

C The new European world.

D The lives of rural Scottish farmers.

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根据下列材料请回答 30～34 题：A Tale of Scottish Rural LifeLewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Son

根据下列材料请回答 30～34 题：A Tale of Scottish Rural Life

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song (1932) was voted "the best Scottish novel of all time" by Scotland's reading public in 2005.Once considered shocking for its frankdescription of aspects of the lives of Scotland's poor rural farmers, it has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades.

The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kin Addie, in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War I.At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the community and a little outside it.

Grassic Gibbon gives us the most detailed and intimate account of the life of hisheroine (女主人公).We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel buthard-working father; experience tragedy (her mother's suicide and murder of her twinchildren); and learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman.We see her marrylose her husband, then marry again.Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to somefemale readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man.

But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris.It is truly a novel of a place and its people.Its opening section tells of Kin Addie’s long history, in a language that imitates the place's changing, patterns of speech and writing.

The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents.It is told from Chris' point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where everybody knows everybody else's business and nothing is ever forgotten.

Sunset Song has a social theme too.It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon

perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World War I.Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war.Despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number of them to their deaths.In particular, it takes away Chris' husband, Evan Avondale.The war finally kills Evan, but not in the way his widow is told.In fact, the Germans aren't responsible for his death, but his own side.He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle.

If the novel is about the end of one way of life, it also looks ahead.It is a "Sunset Song" but is concerned too with the new Kin Addie, indeed of the new European world.Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.

第30题：What is Sunset Song mainly about？

A．The First World War.

B．The beauty of the sunset.

C．The new European world.

D．The lives of rural Scottish farmers

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第三篇A Tale of Scottish Rural Life Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song （1932）was vote "t

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A Tale of Scottish Rural Life

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song （1932）was vote "the best Scottish novel of all Time" by Scotland's reading public in 2005. Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotland’s poor rural farmers, it has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades.

The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie, in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War l. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the community and a little outside it.

Grassic Gibbon gives us the most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine （女主人公）. We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father：experience tragedy（her mother's suicide and murder of her twin children）；And learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man.

But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris. It is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening section tells of Kinraddie's long history, in a language that imitates the place's changing patterns of speech and writing.

The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. 1t is told from Chris' point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where everybody knows everybody else's business and nothing is ever forgotten.

Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural| |life first by modernization and then by World War l. Gibbon tried hard to show how certain character：S resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the young men away. a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away Chris' husband, Ewan Tavendale. The war finally kills Ewan, but not in the way his widow is told. In fact, the Germans aren’t responsible for his death, but his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle.

If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also looks ahead. It is a "Sunset Song" butt is concerned too with the new Kinraddie, indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.

41 What is Sunset Song mainly about？

A The First World War. B The beauty of the sunset.

C The new European world. D The lives of rural Scottish farmers.

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根据下面短文内容，回答题。 A Tale of Scottish Rural LifeLewis Grassic Gibbon&39;s Sunset S

根据下面短文内容，回答题。

A Tale of Scottish Rural Life

Lewis Grassic Gibbon&39;s Sunset Song (1932) was voted "the best Scottish novel of all

time" by Scotland&39;s reading public in 2005. Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotland&39;s poor rural farmers, it has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades.

The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie, in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War I. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the community and a little outside it.

Grassic Gibbon gives us the most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine (女主人公). We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father;experience tragedy (her mother&39;s suicide and murder of her twin children); and learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a-figure to some female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man.

But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris. It is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening section tells of Kinraddie&39;s long history, in a language that imitates the place&39;s changing patterns of speech and writing.

The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. It is told from Chris&39; point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where everybody knows everybody else&39;s business and nothing is ever forgotten.

Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World War I. Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away Chris&39; husband, Evan Tavendale. The war finally kills Evan, but not in the way his widow is told. In fact, the Germans aren&39;t responsible for his death, but his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle.

If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also looks ahead. It is a "Sunset Song" but is concerned too with the new Kinraddie, indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.

What is Sunset Song mainly about？查看材料

A.The First World War

B.The beauty of the sunset

C.The new European world

D.The lives of rural Scottish farmers

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Recently in the Scottish Highlands, 260 theatergoers were led up a well-lit, pin-tree-line

d concrete path. Their destination？ A vacant water plant. The large concrete space had the impersonal feel of an army camp—exactly the atmosphere the producers of Black Watch hoped to reproduce. The play is based on the true story of a Highlands troop sent overseas in 2004.

Essentially, site-specific theater refers to plays produced in places directly relevant to their action. At the Museum Hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, audiences filed into room 217 to watch a tale about the various personalities who had occupied the room over time. " I think people are tired of the same old plays in the same confines of space, " says Paul McLaughlin, who produced Hotel. "Drama happens all around us—at the bus stop, in a supermarket—so we attempted to show how people can interact with the space that surrounds them. "

To be sure, on-scene productions present their own set of challenges. Producers of Black Watch had to scout around London for a location for when the show comes to the British capital. But for many audience members, leaving the comfort of their theater seats makes for a more meaningful experience. "A lot of site-specific work challenges the way you look and think, "says Nick Kaye, a drama professor at the University of Exeter.

Site-specific shows can also satisfy the growing desire for individualized entertainment fueled by on-demand television and the Internet. In Faust, which the London-based theater group Punch-drunk just wrapped up, audience members got to pick what they wanted to see. Housed in an old five-story storehouse in east London, the play featured different settings. Audience members could choose to watch a scene and follow certain actors from location to location. Felix Barrett, the director of Faust, says today's theatergoers expect more than just the traditional audience-actor relationship. "What I wanted to do was to create a piece where the audience can carve out the night they want to have, and it stays with them. " Creating a strong sense of place goes a long way toward a-chieving that.

Recently, 260 Scottish people went to a deserted water plant_______.

A．to tour a newly-built military base

B．to watch a play about military life

C．to visit a military troop back home

D．to attend a military training program

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Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they ar

e used to thinking of the British Isles as England. 【21】______ , the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others 【22】______ to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, 【23】______ the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed 【24】______ being classified as "English".

Even in England there are many 【25】______ in regional character and speech. The chief 【26】______ is between southern England and northern England. South of a 【27】______ going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, 【28】______ there are local variations.

Further north, regional speech is usually" 【29】______ "than that of southern Britain. Northerners are 【30】______ to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more 【31】______ . They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them 【32】______ . Northerners generally have hearty 【33】______ : the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous 【34】______ at meal times.

In accent and character the people of the Midlands 【35】______ a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.

In Scotland the sound 【36】______ by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be 【37】______ in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, 【38】______ inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently 【39】______ as being more "fiery" than the English. They are 【40】______ a race that is quite distinct from the English.

【21】

A．In consequence

B．In brief

C．In general

D．In fact

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Mt. Ben Nevis stands inA．the Scottish Highlands.B．Wales.C．England.D．Northern Ireland.

Mt. Ben Nevis stands in

A．the Scottish Highlands.

B．Wales.

C．England.

D．Northern Ireland.

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Many Scottish names begin with M, Mc or Mac, which means______.A．father ofB．sun ofC．son of

Many Scottish names begin with M, Mc or Mac, which means______.

A．father of

B．sun of

C．son of

D．some of

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A Tale of Scottish Rural LifeLewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song （1932) was voted "the best