(2019·陕西省部分学校摸底检测)ThomasHardy,probablythemostsearchinga...

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(2019·陕西省部分学校摸底检测)Thomas Hardy, probably the most searching and knowledgeable novelist of his time, was born on June 2, 1840, in Dorsetshire, England. He died on January 11, 1928. In his youth, Hardy read much and dreamt of becoming a poet, but he studied and practiced architecture as an assistant to a London architect, winning a prize for design. The fine descriptions of structure in his novels were probably somewhat due to his architectural training.

For five years Hardy worked hard to practice writing poetry, but when he was twenty­seven, he turned to fiction. His first novel finished by 1867, but according to the advice of George Meredith he decided not to publish it. After he abandoned his first novel, his another novel DesperateRemedies, appeared in 1871. During the next twenty­five years he published ten more novels and two collections of short stories.

UndertheGreenwoodTree (1872) was never surpassed (超越) in happy and delicate perfection of art. This and his next novel, APairofBlueEyes (1873), began to show deep irony (讽刺) which is so obvious throughout Hardy's writings.

FarfromtheMaddingCrowd (1874) was his first popular success. It shows Hardy's amazing power of describing nature as symbolic background for his characters, an organic part of the action of his story. This was the earliest of what he called his novels of character and environment, which included TheReturnoftheNative, Tessofthed'Urbervilles, his masterpiece, and JudetheObscure. Not until he was fifty­eight years old was his first collection of poems published, and he was sixty­four when the first part of his drama TheDynasts surprised the literary world.

篇章导读：本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲述了作家Thomas Hardy和他的一些作品。

1．How did Thomas Hardy benefit from his architectural career?

A．He could practice writing while working.

B．He made a lot of money to support his writing.

C．He found material for his novels and poems.

D．He applied architectural knowledge in his novels.

2．What is Thomas Hardy's UndertheGreenwoodTree considered to be?

A．One of his masterworks.

B．His first popular success.

C．His best novel in perfection of art.

D．One of his best collections of poems.

3．Which of the following is one of his novels of character and environment?

A．DesperateRemedies.

B．APairofBlueEyes.

C．Tessofthed'Urbervilles.

D．TheDynasts.

4．What type of writing is this text?

A．A novel.  B．A biography.

C．A book review.  D．A news report.

【回答】

1.D　细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句“The fine descriptions of structure in his novels were probably somewhat due to his architectural training.”可知，在他的小说中细腻的结构描述可能得益于他在建筑方面的学习训练，即他把建筑知识应用到了他的小说中，故选D项。

2.C　细节理解题。根据第三段第一句“UndertheGreenwoodTree (1872) was never surpassed (超越) in happy and delicate perfection of art.”可知，《绿树林下》在艺术的恰当和熟练方面从未被超越。

3.C　细节理解题。根据第四段第三句“This was the earliest of what he called his novels of character and environment, which included TheReturnoftheNative, Tessofthed'Urbervilles, his masterpiece, and JudetheObscure.”可知，Tessofthed'Urbervilles是*格和环境小说，故选C。

4.B　推理判断题。通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了作家Thomas Hardy和他的一些作品，属于人物传记，故选B。

知识点：人物传记 故事类阅读

题型：阅读理解