3.Fagin must be .
A.a person in real life
B.a character in Oliver Twist
C.a character in Pickwick Papers
D.one of Dickens' works
B [细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句话可知答案。]
4.Which of the following is TRUE?
A.Dickens had a happy marriage to Catherine Hagarth.
B.Dickens was a successful actor.
C.Dickens' death had little to do with his hard work.
D.Dickens had wished to die in the course of his work.
D [推理判断题。根据最后一段最后一句话可知答案。]
IV .完形填空
I love a good murder mystery(小说).It is so 1 to watch or read an exciting and interesting detective story and try to solve the 2 yourself.Agatha Christie is undoubtedly queen of the detective story considering she 3 over eighty books.Many people have fallen in love with her 4 -Hercule Poirot,a famous Belgian detective and Miss Marple,an old lady who is also an amateur 5 .
As I am a big 6 of Agatha Christie,I was excited to 7 her house in Devon called Greenway.I travelled to her 8 by steam train.We went through a dark tunnel and there was lots of smoke.It was a 9 setting for a murder like in her famous novel Murder on the Orient Express. 10 ,all the passengers arrived safely!
After a pleasant walk through the woods,I 11 the splendid house.I did a tour and I loved seeing where she wrote her 12 .Many first editions were on display in a revolving(旋转的) bookcase.However,my 13 part of the estate(房产) was the boathouse.There was a lovely view of the river 14 the boathouse also served a more special purpose-inspiration for a crime 15 .In the Poirot novel,Dead Man's Folly,a girl's body is 16 in the boathouse.They even 17 the TV adaptation of the book at Greenway.
I really 18 my visit to Greenway.It was such a 19 place and I was interested