Question

【題目】閱讀下列材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（一個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family, Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before【1】______(return) to her family’s house in Amherst where she lived【2】______ peaceful life. She kept in touch with her friends by writing letters and was 【3】_____(willing) to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room.

Dickinson’s poems are unique(獨(dú)一無二的) for the time she lived in; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use half rhyme. Many of her poems deal 【4】______ themes(主題) of death and immortality(永生). Dickinson wrote about 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but few of 【5】 _______ were published. Although most of her friends probably knew about Dickinson’s writing, they didn’t know 【6】_____ she had produced so many poems until after her death in 1886, when her younger sister Lavinia discovered the place where the poems were hidden. 【7】______ her sister had not discovered them, the broadness of Dickinson’s work wouldn’t have become known.

Dickinson’s first collection of poetry was published in 1890, the content(內(nèi)容) of 【8】_______was heavily edited(編輯) by the publishers 【9】 ______ (fit) the conventional poetic rules of the time. A complete and mostly unedited collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955. Now Dickinson 【10】 _______ (consider) to be one of the most important American poets.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】returning

【2】a

【3】unwilling

【4】with

【5】them

【6】that

【7】If

【8】which

【9】to fit

【10】is considered

【解析】

【1】returning考察動名詞主語。句意：返回到她居住的家鄉(xiāng)。

【2】a考察冠詞。文意是一個寧靜的生活。

【3】unwilling考察名詞。文意是她不想會客，在晚年的時候甚至不想離開房間。

【4】with考察介詞。With the theme of 是固定搭配，表示“…的主題”。

【5】them 考察人稱代詞。文意是只有極少數(shù)的詩被發(fā)表出來。

【6】that考察引導(dǎo)詞。1886年她去世的時候已經(jīng)創(chuàng)作了很多詩集。

【7】If 考察連詞。文意是如果不是她的姐姐發(fā)現(xiàn)它們，或許它們就不會被世人所知了。

【8】which考察引導(dǎo)詞。Which引導(dǎo)的定語從句修飾詩集。

【9】to fit 考察不定式。文意是適應(yīng)規(guī)則。

【10】is considered考察被動語態(tài)。文意是她被看作為美國最重要的一位作家。