Which writer wrote the book explaining bow to celebrate Christmas?A.Beth Webb.B.Lois Rock.
Which writer wrote the book explaining bow to celebrate Christmas?
A.Beth Webb.
B.Lois Rock.
C.Pat Alexander.
D.Elizabeth Goudge.
Which writer wrote the book explaining bow to celebrate Christmas?
A.Beth Webb.
B.Lois Rock.
C.Pat Alexander.
D.Elizabeth Goudge.
第1题
Which writer wrote the book explaining how to celebrate Christmas?
A.Beth webb.
B.Lois Rock.
C.Pat Alexander.
D.Elizabeth Goudge.
第2题
听力原文: Tom Smith was a writer. He wrote detective stories for magazines. One evening he couldn't find an end for a story. He sat with his typewriter in front of him, but he had no ideas. So he decided to go to the cinema.
When he came back, he found that he had had a visitor. Someone had broken into his room. The man had had a drink, smoked several of Tom's cigarettes and had read his story. The visitor left a note,
I have read your story and I don't think much of it. Please read my suggestions and then you can finish it. By the way, I am not a thief. I am not going to steal anything tonight, but if you become a successful writer, I will return!
Tom read the thief's suggestions. Then he sat down and wrote the rest of the story. He is still not a successful writer, and he is waiting for his thief to return. Before he goes out in the evening, near his typewriter he always leaves a story, which has not been finished.
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A.Because he had been invited by a friend.
B.Because he couldn't find a good end for his story.
C.Because he had nothing to do in his spare time.
D.Because there was a very fantastic film in the cinema.
第3题
第4题
He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc. , and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London. I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms--a bedroom and a sitting room--in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.
We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father ________.
A.made an important contribution
B.insisted that he choose writing as a career
C.opposed his becoming a writer
D.insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
第5题
Which of the following is the right order of the events?
a. became a doctor
b. became a full time writer
e. started to publish comic short stories
d. wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper
e. entered the Moscow University Medical School
A.e, c, a, d, b
B.d, a, b, c, e
C.e, c, b, a, d
D.a, e, c, b, d
第6题
The writer of the passage wants us to know ______.
A.Copernicus didn't publish his book until his death
B.Copernicus dared to do nothing against the church
C.urged by his friends, Copernicus wrote his great book
D.before he went back to Poland, Copernicus started to work for the church
第7题
M: Yeah. The novelist Charles Dickens has been a best selling author for a very long time, in fact since his work appeared a hundred and fifty years ago. It' s here in this house that he completed "The Pickwick Paper". It was here, too, that he wrote "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Oliver Twist". They followed on the success of "The Pickwick Papers" and established his reputation as a leading author.
W: Dickens really was the first great popular novelist, wash' t he?
M: Exactly. He and his publishers had discovered the very useful means of writing in monthly parts so you could buy parts of novels serially, quite cheaply. Dickens' works were absolutely best-sellers and this continued throughout the thirty or forty years of his writing life.
W: Why is he still so popular, when so many writers go out of fashion?
M: I think in the end you put it down to nothing short of genius, that what he was doing was writing for a popular audience in his own time.
Which is NOT the place where they are talking?
A.London University.
B.The home of Charles Dickens.
C.London.
D.The Dickens Museum,
第8题
Did Sarah Josepha Hale write “Mary’s Little Lamb,” the eternal nursery rhyme(儿歌)about girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb? This is still disputed, but it’s clear that the woman 26 reputed for writing it was one of America’s most fascinating 27 characters. In honor of the poem publication on May 24,1830, here’s more about the 28 supposed author’s life.Hale wasn’t just a writer, she was also a 29 fierce social advocate, and she was particularly 30 obsessed with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgivinx xg meals that she claimed had “a deep moral influence,” she began a nationwide 31 campaign to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the 32 traditional festivals. In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it. President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, issued a 33 proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.The true authorship of “Mary’s Little Lamb” is disputed. According to New England Historical Society, Hale wrote only one part of the poem, but claimed authorship. Regardless of the author, it seems that the poem was 34 inspired by a real event. When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in 1816, it caused some problems. A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it. However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the 35 rest of her life that “Some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem”.
A)campaign
B)career
C)characters
D)features
E)fierce
F)inspired
G)latter
H)obsessed
I)proclamation
J)rectified
K)reputed
L)rest
M)supposed
N)traditional
O)versatile
第9题
听力原文:M: Hi, Janet. How's your oral presentation coming along?
W: What oral presentation are you talking about? I can't give mine until next week.
M: You haven't started working on it yet, have you?
W: No, I have so many other things to do. I need to finish summarizing 30 articles for Dr. Thompson. See, I've been working for him as a research assistant. I know what the pressure of a deadline feels like.
M: I have more time than you do. But I can't concentrate unless I know I have plenty of time. I wanted to get my presentation out of the way because I have a big biology test next week.
W: What's your presentation on?
M: Sinclair Lewis.
W: Isn't he a writer? I thought we were supposed to focus only on poets.
M: No, yon can work on novelists too.
W: Are you positive? I didn't know that.
M: Anyway, I like most of Lewis' novels but especially Main Street which he wrote in 1920. It's a satirical portrait of a conservative small town in the Midwest.
W: Are you going to give yours on Wednesday?
M: Yes, I am. You wouldn't mind listening to my talk and giving me some feedback, would you? Also, I'd appreciate it if you would time my speech.
W: No problem. Where shall we get together?
M: That sounds good.I'll see you at the hall. It'll be quieter than our dormitory.
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A.Their oral presentations.
B.Sinclair Lewis.
C.American novelists.
D.American poets.
第10题
Which of the following is true about the weddings in the Nineteen-Sixties and Seventies?
A.They wrote their own books to mark their wedding ceremonies.
B.They didn't wear special clothes or went even without shoes.
C.They had their wedding ceremonies in a church or a law office.
D.They spent their honeymoons on a sandy beach or on a mountainside.