Question

【題目】閱讀下列材料，在空白處填入適當?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考察引導詞。Which引導的定語從句修飾詩集。

【9】to fit 考察不定式。文意是適應規(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。