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13. 小说 Mary Barton
Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to thesuffering of the
industrial worker in the England of the 1840’s. What is most impressive aboutthe book is the
intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to conveythe experience
of everyday life in working-class homes. Her method is partly documentary innature: the novel
includes such features as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect, theexact details of food
prices in an account of a tea party, an itemized description of the furnitureof the Bartons’ living
room, and a transcription (again annotated) of the ballad “The Oldham Weaver.”The interest
of this record is considerable, even though the method has a slightlydistancing effect.
As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-classlife
as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is alwaysconscious of this
fact. But there is genuine imaginative re-creation in her accounts of the walkin Green Heys
Fields, of tea at the Bartons’ house, and of John Barton and his friend’sdiscovery of the starving
family in the cellar in the chapter “Poverty and Death.” Indeed, for asimilarly convincing
re-creation of such families’ emotions and responses (which are more crucialthan the material
details on which the mere reporter is apt to concentrate), the English novelhad to wait 60 years
for the early writing of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite conveys thesense of full
participation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton,she still brings to
these scenes an intuitive recognition of feelings that has its own sufficientconviction.
The chapter “Old Alice’s History” brilliantly dramatizes the situation of thatearly
generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside to theurban industrial
centers. The account of Job Legh, the weaver and naturalist who is devoted tothe study of
biology, vividly embodies one kind of response to an urban industrialenvironment: an affinity
for living things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, intoa kind of crankiness.
The early chapters—about factory workers walking out in spring into Green HeysFields; about
Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the twig-gathering for brooms in thenative village that
she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on his impaled insects—capturethe
characteristic responses of a generation to the new and crushing experience ofindustrialism.
The other early chapters eloquently portray the development of the instinctivecooperation with
each other that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.
13.1. Which of the following best describes the author’s attitude towardGaskell’s use of the
method of documentary record in Mary Barton?
(A) Uncritical enthusiasm
(B) Unresolved ambivalence
(C) Qualified approval
(D) Resigned acceptance
(E) Mild irritation
C，这项感觉每次出来都是对的哈哈，作者对这个持褒义。。。
13.2. According to the passage, Mary Barton and the early novels of D. H.Lawrence share
which of the following?
(A) Depiction of the feelings of working-class families
(B) Documentary objectivity about working-class circumstances
(C) Richly detailed description of working-class adjustment to urban life
(D) Imaginatively structured plots about working-class characters
(E) Experimental prose style based on working-class dialect
个人感觉是A，觉得这题挺变态；首先B说了他的一个特性，但是文中有提到了Hermethod is partly documentary in nature，所以B挺模糊，但是说是跟DH的共同点，所以定位DH附近，往前看前一句：Indeed,for a similarly convincing re-creation of such families’ emotions and responses，提到了对family的描写。前文同样提到了detail，关于C，后面也提到了适应urbanlife，但是这都在DH后面所以认为不对。D么，感觉一下就能拍出。。。E的话dialect是个重点然后也是个定位，但是并不是prose style。。。
13.3. Which of the following is most closely analogous to Job Legh in MaryBarton, as that
character is described in the passage?
(A) An entomologist who collected butterflies as a child
(B) A small-town attorney whose hobby is nature photography
(C) A young man who leaves his family’s dairy farm to start his own business
(D) A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the roof of his apartmentbuilding
(E) A union organizer who works in a textile mill under dangerous conditions
C，同样式本来从事一行后来换一行。。。
13.4. It can be inferred from examples given in the last paragraph of thepassage that which of
the following was part of “the new and crushing experience of industrialism”(lines 46-47) for
many members of the English working class in the nineteenth century?
(A) Extortionate food prices
(B) Geographical displacement
(C) Hazardous working conditions
(D) Alienation from fellow workers
(E) Dissolution of family ties
定位这里：anaffinity for living things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, intoa kind of crankiness.
The early chapters—about factory workers walking out in spring into Green HeysFields; about
Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the twig-gathering for brooms in thenative village that
she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on his impaled insects—capturethe
characteristic responses of a generation to the new and crushing experience ofindustrialism. 第一句是答案 跟living things的关系harden成了怪癖，与跟环境相反；因此事D
13.5. It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes that MaryBarton might have
been an even better novel if Gaskell had
(A) concentrated on the emotions of a single character
(B) made no attempt to re-create experiences of which she had no firsthandknowledge
(C) made no attempt to reproduce working-class dialects
(D) grown up in an industrial city
(E) managed to transcend her position as an outsider
定位这里：IfGaskell never quite conveys the sense of full
participation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton,she still brings to
these scenes an intuitive recognition of feelings that has its own sufficientconviction.选E
13.6. Which of the following phrases could best be substituted for the phrase“this aspect of
Mary Barton” in line 29 without changing the meaning of the passage as a whole?
(A) the material details in an urban working-class environment
(B) the influence of Mary Barton on lawrence’s early work
(C) the place of Mary Barton in the development of the English novel
(D) the extent of the poverty and physical suffering among England’s industrialworkers in the
1840’s
(E) the portrayal of the particular feelings and responses of working-classcharacters
选E，this aspect指的就是mary的描写的特性。
13.7. The author of the passage describes Mary Barton as each of the followingEXCEPT:
(A) insightful
(B) meticulous
(C) vivid
(D) poignant
(E) lyrical
个人认为是D吧。。。其他感觉都有关
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