2022考研英语新题型小练（5）

[A]. The first published sketch,"A Dinner at Polar Walk"brought tears to Dickens's eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine From then on his sketches,which appeared under the pen name"Boz" in The Evening Chronicle,earned him a modest reputation.

[B]. The runaway success of The Pickwick Papers,as it is generally known today,secured Dickens's fame.There were Pickwick coats and Pickwick cigars,and the plump,spectacled hero,Samuel Pickwick,because a national figure.

[C]. Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared,a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments,as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the then-famous artist Robert Seymour,who had originated the idea for the story.With characteristic confidence,Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour's pictures illustrate his own story instead.After the first installment,Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt,was not faithful enough to his prose.Seymour made the change,went into his backyard,and expressed his displeasure by committing suicide.Dickens and his publishers simply pressed on with a new artist.The comic novel,The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club,appeared serially in 1836 and 1837 and was first published in book form in 1837.

[D]. Charles Dickens is probably the best-known and,to many people,the greatest English novelist of the 19th century.A moralist,satirist,and social reformer,Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

[E]. Soon after his father's release from prison,Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament.At the same time,Dickens,who had a reporter's eye for transcribing the life around him,especially anything comic or odd,submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

[F]. Dickens was born in Portsmouth,on England's southern coast.His father was a clerk in the British Navy Pay office--a respectable position,but with little social status.His paternal grandparents,a steward and a housekeeper,possessed even less status,having been servants,and Dickens later concealed their background.Dicken's mother supposedly came from a more respectable family.Yet two years before Dicken's birth,his mother's father was caught stealing and fled to Europe,never to return.The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse,a shoe-polish factory,where the other working boys mocked him as"the young gentleman."His father was then imprisoned for debt.The humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens's greatest wound and became his deepest secret.He could not confide them even to his wife,although they provide the unacknowledged foundation of his fiction.

[G]. After Pickwick,Dickens plunged into a bleaker world.In Oliver Twist,he traces an orphan's progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London.Nicholas Nickleby,his next novel,combines the darkness of Oliver Twist with the sunlight of Pickwick.The popularity of these novels consolidated Dickens' as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters.

D → 41. → 42. → 43. → 44. → B →45. 

答案：FEACG

[A]出版的第一幅草图《极地步道的晚餐》被狄更斯在月刊杂志上发现时泪流满面 从那时起，他的草图以笔名“博兹”出现在《晚间纪事》中，为他赢得了名气不大。

[B]今天众所周知的匹克威克报纸的巨大成功确保了狄更斯的名气。有匹克威克外套和匹克威克雪茄，还有身材丰满、戴眼镜的英雄塞缪尔·匹克威克，因为它是一个全国性的人物。

[C]在 Boz 的 Sketches 出现后不久，一家出版公司找狄更斯分期写一个故事，作为当时著名艺术家罗伯特·西摩（Robert Seymour）的一系列木刻的背景，他是这个故事的创意者。带着特有的自信，狄更斯成功地坚持让西摩的画代替他自己的故事。第一部分后，狄更斯写信给艺术家，要求他更正狄更斯认为对他的散文不够忠实的一幅画。西摩做出改变，走进他的后院，并通过自杀表达了他的不满。狄更斯和他的出版商只是继续寻找一位新艺术家。漫画小说《匹克威克俱乐部的遗书》于 1836 年和 1837 年连续出现，并于 1837 年首次以书籍形式出版。

[D]查尔斯·狄更斯可能是 19 世纪最著名的英国小说家，对许多人来说，他也是最伟大的。作为道德家、讽刺作家和社会改革家，狄更斯精心设计了复杂的情节和引人注目的人物，捕捉了英国社会的全景。

[E]父亲出狱后不久，狄更斯在律师事务所找到了一份更好的跑腿工作。他自学速记，后来成为法庭速记员和议会记者，获得更好的工作。与此同时，狄更斯，谁有记者的眼光，可以记录他周围的生活，尤其是任何滑稽或奇怪的东西，向晦涩的杂志提交了简短的草图。

[F]狄更斯出生在英格兰南部海岸的朴茨茅斯。他的父亲是英国海军薪酬办公室的一名文员——一个受人尊敬的职位，但社会地位很低。他的祖父母，管家和管家，地位更低，有曾经是仆人，后来狄更斯隐瞒了自己的背景。据推测，狄更斯的母亲来自一个更受人尊敬的家庭。然而在狄更斯出生前两年，他母亲的父亲因偷窃而逃往欧洲，再也没有回来。家庭日益贫困迫使狄更斯离开12 岁上学，在沃伦的黑金仓库（一家鞋油厂）工作，在那里其他工作的男孩嘲笑他为“小绅士”。他的父亲随后因债务入狱。涂黑工厂是狄更斯最大的伤口，也成为他最深的秘密。他甚至无法向他的妻子倾诉，尽管它们为他的小说提供了未被承认的基础。

[G]在匹克威克之后，狄更斯陷入了一个更加黯淡的世界。在奥利弗·特威斯特，他追溯了一个孤儿从济贫院到伦敦犯罪贫民窟的过程。尼古拉斯·尼克比，他的下一部小说，将奥利弗·特威斯特的黑暗与匹克威克的阳光结合起来。这些小说巩固了狄更斯作为国内和国际知名文学家的地位。