問題詳情
III. Passage Completion (20%)“Dickens,” George Orwell once remarked, “is one of those writers who are well worth ___26___,” which waswhy so many different groups were eager to claim him as one of their own. Did Orwell foresee that someday he toowould become just such a writer? Almost certainly he did not. In 1939, when he wrote those words about Dickens, hewas still a relatively ___27___ figure, and, among those who knew his work at all, a highly controversial one. Only ayear earlier, his book about the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia, had been rejected ___28___ politicalgrounds by his own publishers in both Britain and the United States; and far from being claimed by contendingfactions as one of their own, he was ___29___ to being excommunicated and excoriated by them all. Nevertheless, bythe time of his death in 1950 at the age of forty-six, he had become so famous that his very name entered the languageand has ___30___ there in the form of the adjective “Orwellian.” At first, this great status rested almost entirely onthe tremendous success, both ___31___ and commercial, of his two last novels, Animal Farm (1945) and NineteenEighty-Four (1949). Thanks to them, all his other books, including several early novels that were scarcely noticed atthe time of their publication, ___32___ literary essays, book reviews, and even fugitive pieces of dated journalism,3 of 5came back into print and are still easily available. As these earlier works became better known, they graduallyenhanced Orwell’s posthumous reputation. For example, the much-maligned Homage to Catalonia was pronounced“one of the important documents of our time” by Lionel Trilling when it was finally published in the United Statesafter Orwell’s ___33___. And when in 1968 The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell cameout in four massive volumes, the occasion was ___34___ upon by another American critic, Irving Howe, to proclaimOrwell not only “the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr. Johnson,” but also “the greatest moral forcein English letters during the last several decades.” Bernard Crick, one of Orwell’s most recent British biographers,goes, if possible, even further, ___35___ him with Thomas Hobbes and Jonathan Swift as one of the three greatestpolitical writers in the history of English literature.
(A) above
(B) as well as
(C) closer
(D) critical
(E) death(AB) excluding (AC) obscure (AD) on (AE) placing (BC) precocious(BD) regardless of (BE) remained (CD) seized (CE) stealing (DE) vital
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參考答案
答案：C,E
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(2),B(2),C(0),D(0),E(0)