Mary is ______ a translation of a French nove...

Mary is ______ a translation of a French novel.

A．engaged with       B．busy in            C．absorbed to        D．occupied with

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Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities is set in the years before and during the French Revolution (1789 - 1799). During its course, French revolutionaries brought down the empire and established a republic of free and equal citizens.

In reading the work, one sees that Dickens distorted some details of the French Revolution. At the beginning, Dickens notes that, in 1775, France was busy spending money. This mention of France’s spending touches briefly on what is perhaps the major cause of the French Revolution. Before the revolution, the government often borrowed money because it spent more than it raised in taxes. The increased spending and borrowing made many people’s blood boil, yet Dickens focused instead on the nobility’s oppression and exploitation of the working class, including peasants, as the causes of the revolution.

The Marquis, one of the book’s characters, ill-treats and kills many people. Thus, he represents the nobles who mistreat the lower classes. One reviewer criticized this picture as an unfair representation of French society in the mid-1700s. The reviewer pointed out that the government would have punished nobles who mistreated or murdered. Nobles may have been guilty of other evils, however, such as not feeding the starving masses after bad weather ruined crops in 1789.

Dickens’ account of the storming of the Bastille fails to mention that the gang that stormed the prison was looking for bullets and bombs to use in defense against a possible attack by the king’s troops. Dickens does include some accurate details, however, such as the crowd’s finding only seven prisoners and freeing them and the pack’s executing (处决) the prison administrator and sticking his head on a post. The scene that the women knit (编织) as they watch the executions may seem to be an odd detail, but actually many women did knit stockings for the war effort as they watched the killing machine at work.

Dickens’ descriptions of the steady stream of sentenced people into prison and the carts taking them to their deaths give readers some idea of the frequency with which officials jailed and executed people during the Rule of Terror, which lasted about a year. During the Terror, the government jailed about 250 thousand people, tried (审判) and killed about 17 thousand, and executed about 12 thousand without a trial. Those executed included people who opposed the revolution, people who offended the revolutionaries, and even some revolutionaries. About 15 percent were members of the ministry or nobility.

1.What does the word “distorted” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?

A.Discussed. B.Revealed.

C.Provided. D.Twisted.

2.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A.A wild crowd rushed into the Bastille to fight with the royal soldiers.

B.The nobles’ mistreating and killing people is the main cause of the revolution.

C.About thirty thousand people lost their lives in the course of the Rule of Terror.

D.Women were forced to work for the war supplies while watching people killed.

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A.Dickens was once among the revolutionaries storming the Bastille.

B.There was an extreme disorder and horror during the revolution.

C.Nobles of those days in France were loaded with heavy social responsibilities.

D.Classic literary works may serve as history textbooks to a great degree.

4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A.The Collapse of the French Empire

B.Unknown Facts during the Rule of Terror

C.Dickens’ Description of the French Revolution

D.A Critical View on A Tale of Two Cities

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---The novel gone with wind is said _____ into several languages.

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---The novel gone with wind is said _____ into several languages.

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The novel is said _____ into many languages.

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He wrote a lot of novels，none of________was translated into a foreign language.

A．them  B．what  C．that  D．which

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He wrote five novels, two of_____ translated into English.

A. it       B. them      C. which       D. that

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The novel is said _____ into many languages.

A. being translated         B. having been translated

C. to translate             D. to have been translated

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---The novel gone with wind is said __________ into several language.

A. to translate          B. being translated

C. having been translated  D. to have been translated

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Translation

1.      这位女士忙着为她的孩子做衣服。（engage）

2.      在这家超市里可以买到各种土特产。（available）

3.      他迟到了，我不知道他是否有足够的时间完成考题。（wonder）

4.      经过长期的努力，他出国的梦想终于实现了。（come true）

5.      他是如此热衷于文学以至于他放弃了教学从事写作。（keen）

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