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7. .小说Mary Barton（原题）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 about thebook is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, ElizabethGaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working-class homes. Hermethod is partly documentary in nature: the novel includes such features as acarefully annotated reproduction of dialect, the exact details of food pricesin an account of a tea party (teaparty: n.
茶话会), an itemized description of the furniture of the Bartons’ livingroom, and a transcription (a recording(as on magnetic tape) made especially for use in radio broadcasting)(again annotated) of the ballad “The Oldham Weaver.” The interest of this recordis considerable, even though the method has a slightly distancing effect.As amember of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-classlife as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel isalways conscious of this fact. But there is genuine imaginative re-creation inher accounts of the walk in Green Heys Fields, of tea at the Bartons’ house,and of John Barton and his friend’s discovery of the starving family in thecellar in the chapter “Poverty and Death.” Indeed, for a similarly convincingre-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 novel had to wait 60 years for the early writing of D. H. Lawrence.If Gaskell never quite conveys the sense of full participation that wouldcompletely authenticate this aspect of MaryBarton, she still brings to these scenes an intuitive recognition offeelings that has its own sufficient conviction.
Thechapter “Old Alice’s History” brilliantly dramatizes the situation of thatearly generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside tothe urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the weaver andnaturalist who is devoted to the study of biology, vividly embodies one kind ofresponse to an urban industrial environment: an affinity for living things thathardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a 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 forbrooms in the native village that she will never again see; about Job Legh,intent on his impaled insects—capture the characteristic responses of a generationto the new and crushing experience of industrialism. The other early chapterseloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with eachother that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.
17. Which of thefollowing best describes the author’s attitude toward Gaskell’s use of themethod of documentary record in MaryBarton?
(A) Uncritical enthusiasm
(B) Unresolved ambivalence
(C) Qualified approval
(D) Resigned acceptance（C）
(E) Mild irritation
18. According to thepassage, Mary Barton and the earlynovels 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 tourban life
(D) Imaginatively structured plots about working-class characters（A）
(E) Experimental prose style based on working-class dialect
19. Which of thefollowing is most closely analogous to Job Legh in Mary Barton, 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 hisown business
(D) A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the roof of hisapartment building（D）
(E) A union organizer who works in a textile mill under dangerousconditions
20. It can beinferred from examples given in the last paragraph of the passage that which ofthe following was part of “the new and crushing experience of industrialism”(lines 46-47) for many members of the English working class in the nineteenthcentury?
(A) Extortionate food prices
(B) Geographical displacement
(C) Hazardous working conditions
(D) Alienation from fellow workers（B）
(E) Dissolution of family ties
21. It can beinferred that the author of the passage believes that Mary Barton 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 nofirsthand knowledge
(C) made no attempt to reproduce working-class dialects
(D) grown up in an industrial city（E）
(E) managed to transcend her position as an outsider
22. Which of thefollowing phrases could best be substituted for the phrase “this aspect of Mary Barton” in line 29 without changingthe meaning of the passage as a whole?
(A) the material details in an urban working-class environment
(B) the influence of MaryBarton on lawrence’s early work
(C) the place of Mary Bartonin the development of the English novel
(D) the extent of the poverty and physical suffering amongEngland’s industrial workers in the 1840’s
（E）(E) the portrayal of the particular feelings and responses ofworking-class characters
23. The author ofthe passage describes MaryBarton as each of the following EXCEPT:
(A) insightful
(B) meticulous
(C) vivid
(D) poignant (being to thepoint: APT)（E）
(E) lyrical |
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