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篇一：The Bronte Sisters

The Victorian poets

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

1. His life: the fourth son of a clergyman in the country; entered Cambridge in 1827 where he formed a lasting friendship with a college mate Arthur Henry Hallam who later was engaged to his sister Emily and who died in 1833 in Vienna; made poet laureate in 1850; created a baron in 1884 and became a court poet; an admirer of Keats; married Emily Sellwood in 1850

2. His works

a. In Memoriam A.H.H. 《悼亡诗——纪念汉勒姆》

Genre: a long lyric poem

Content: The poem expresses the poet’s regret for his lost friend and his anxiety about immortality

b. “Crossing the Bar”: a short lyric poem about the poet’s quiet attitude toward death c. “Break, Break, Break”: a short lyric poem in memory of the poet’s friend Authur Henry Hallam

d. “Ulysses”, a poem written in blank verse.

e. The Idylls of the King《亚瑟王传奇》

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

1. His life: son of a wealth banker in London with a library of 6,000 volumes of books; studied at London University for one year but educated at home; began to exchange correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett(1806-1861), an invalid since thirteen; eloped with her to Italy because of her father’s disapproval of their marriage and secretly married there; father of one son; returned to England after her death in 1861; lived with her sisters in London and often traveled to the country and abroad; died in Venice and was buried in the Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey; a follower of Shelley

2. His poems

Browning is famous for the dramatic monologue, I,e. apoem in which there is one imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience.

a. Men and Women《男男女女》: a collection of 51 poems about history, art, philosophy and religion including such well-known dramatic monologues as “ Any Wife to Any Husband” and “Fra Lippo Lippi”

b. The Ring and the Book《指环与书》

Genre: a long narrative poem

Structure: 21,000 lines in 12 books

Poetic form: blank verse

Setting: Rome in 1698

Plot: Pompilia Comparini and Count Guido Francheschini are a couple. Pompilia runs away with the help of a handsome young priest Caponsacchi. The paramour and the mistress are punished by the law. But Count Guido and his four henchmen（亲信）kill Pompilia’s parents and wound the young wife mortally. Finally the Pope pronounces Guido and his four accomplices guilty of murder: one is beheaded and the other four hanged.

c. My Last Duchess《我已故的公爵夫人》

The Bronte Sisters

By “the Bronte sisters” we are referring to Charlotte Bronte, the authoress of Jane Eyre, Emily Bronte, the authoress of Wuthering Heights, and Anne Bronte, the authoress of Agnes Grey. Their works are different from those of other Victorian

writers in the aspects below: 1.Their works are marked by strong romantic elements. 2. The role of nature is especially important in the works of the Bronte sisters. 3. Their works are also marked by a new conception of heroines of vital strength and passionate feelings.

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

Charlotte is a novelist. Her four novels, Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley《雪莉》(1849）、《维莱特》（Villette, 1853）、《教师》（The Professor, 1857） (1857) are all more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around her. And, her novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for life and love.

1. Features of Charlotte’s Novels

On the one hand, Charlotte presents a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy, inequality and other evils of the upper classes, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. On the other hand, by writing from an individual point of view, she projects herself into her leading character and allows her innermost feelings, her secret impulses to color her narratives, thus creating the story of her inner life with the dominant energies and sympathies on the side of passion.

All Charlotte’s works show an intense love for the beauty of nature and contempt for the worldly ambition and success. Her works are generally manifestations that man’s life is composed of perpetual battle between sin and virtue, good and evil. All her heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self, some human weakness overcome. She believes only in hard work, self-discipline and high intelligence.

Another obvious phenomenon with her novels is that her heroines are never endowed with the traditional virtues, such as brilliant beauty, gentleness and (What surprises the contemporary readers is that her favorite heroine Jane Eyre is such a small, plain, poor governess. Even when the girl is later transferred almost into a kind of Cinderella, she is never any more beautiful. Instead, she makes it up by picturing her as a typical Puritan who believes in hard work, in self-discipline, in denying herself every luxury, and in highly moral choice. On the contrary, the rich, beautiful Miss Ingram is reduced to an object of contempt because she is selfish, vain and empty-headed. Besides, the final endings of her heroines are exactly what we find in life. No wishful fancies, but everything is hard fought for; no perfect happiness or down-right success but a mixture of satisfaction and sacrifice.)

Charlotte is a subjective writer. The involvement of Charlotte in her novels is obvious. In Charlotte’s works it is easy to identify her own personalities and her intensity of a volcanic imagination and fiery passions and feelings.

At the same time, Charlotte’s writings are also notable for manipulation of pseudo-subjective means. She is exceptionally good at landscape painting and presentation of atmospheres of mystery, horror and prophesies. Her dreams, paintings, choice of books and mirror images often carry messages or predictions. They reflect either the inner mind or the natural predilection of the characters. Thus, her wonderfully depicted natural landscape becomes not just backdrop but objective

correlative of the subjective mind. It provides not only a sight but also a sensation and enables readers to see as well as to sense or feel what the characters can.

2. Analysis of Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is generally considered Charlotte’s most representative work. It has as its central theme the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-fulfillment.

1) The Story

The story is masterly plotted and constructed with five geographical sections corresponding to five major periods of time in the heroine’s life. Gateshead Hall, Lowood School, country mansion, St. John Rivers and his two sisters, Thornfield.

2) Themes

It is known as a work of critical realism as well as the first and one of the most popular works of the working middle-class women. The ill treatment of and despise for the unfortunate lower class by the rich and the privileged are clearly shown. On the other hand, the idle and vain life of the corrupted rich is also vividly depicted and sharply criticized.

It is the first governess novel in the history of English literature. We have a small, plain, poor governess who begins her life all alone, with no body caring for her and nothing attractive. What she has is an intense feeling, a ready sympathy and a strong sense of equality and independence. Her very unconventionality marks her as an entirely new woman.

Besides Jane’s exceptional personalities, the hook is also hailed as a representative work of feminist writings, i. e. works reflecting the experience and defending the interest of the weaker sex. Jane, small and weak as she is, becomes an image fighting for the emancipation of women.

3) Structure

In maintaining the conventional autobiographical form, Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Emily Bronte is generally acknowledged as the most gifted of the three Bronte sisters. Though her poetry is among the best in English literature, she is now chiefly remembered for her single novel, Wuthering Heights.

I. Wuthering Heights《呼啸山庄》

Genre: a novel

Setting: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange in northern England in the 18th century

Characters:

Mr. Earnshaw, owner of Wuthering Heights

Hindley, his eldest son

Hareton, Hindley’s son

Catherine, Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter

Little Cathy, Catherine’s daughter with Edgar

Heathcliff, a waif, adopted by Mr. Earnshaw

Mr. and Mrs. Linton, owners of Thrushcross Grange

Edgar, eldest son of Mr. Linton

Isabella, Edgar’s sister, Heathcliff’s wife

Linton Heathcliff, Isabella’s sick son by Heathcliff

Wuthering Heights is an extraordinary story of love and revenge. In many respects it is an unconventional work and Heathcliff and Catherine is unorthodox according to Victorian standards and Heathcliff represents savage forces the society tries in vain to eliminate. Through Heathcliff and Catherine, Emily Bronte ranges human passions against social conventions with extraordinary violence, while at the same time retaining a cool artistic control. The structure of the novel is also unique: the story is told through independent narrators unidentical with the author, whose personality is therefore completely absent from the book. Like her sister Charlotte, Emily Bronte also brings up the women question, but from another angle. She presents an image of the feminine personality under the social constrictions of the civilization of the time.

George Eliot ( 1819-1880)

1. Her life: her real name, Mary Ann Evans, daughter of a land agent on the farm in Warwickshire; had a few years’ schooling; went to London to be an editor of a magazine in 1851; lived with G. H. Lewes, a married man and an eminent critic from 1854 to 1878; married her financial adviser J.W. Cross who was 40 in 1880; died 7 months later

2. Her works

Genre: a novel

Setting: English countryside in the late 18th century

Characters;

Adam Bede, a country carpenter

Hetty Sorrel, a pretty, vain daughter of a farmer

Arthur Donnithorne: a young squire

Dinah Morris, Hetty’s cousin, a preacher

Seth, Adam’s brother, in love with Dinah

Plot: On the wedding night of Adam and Hetty, the latter finds herself pregnant and flies to look for the baby’s father, Arthur Donnithorne. Failing to do so, she murders the baby and is sentenced to death. Dinah Morris comes to her prison to preach for her. Finally the repentant Arthur appears to offer to marry her and Hetty is pardoned. Meanwhile Adam marries Dinah, and Adam’s brother Seth who has long been hopelessly in love with her resigns her to him.

弗洛斯河上的磨坊》

Genre: an autobiographical novel

Setting: English midlands

Characters;

Mr. Tulliver, a rich miller on the Floss

Tom, his son

Maggie, his daughter

Mr. Wakem, a lawyer

Philip Wakem, the lawyer’s deformed son

Plot: Mr. Tulliver, a rich miller in a lawsuit is defeated by Lawyer Wakem and goes bankrupt and dies soon afterwards. His son Tom and daughter Maggie are in conflict because the latter is in love with Philip, the deformed son of their father’s enemy Wakem, the lawyer. They are reconciled during a flood when both are drowned. c. Silas Marner《织工马南》

Genre: a novel

Setting: village of Raveloe

Characters:

Silas Marner: a linen weaver

Dunstan Cass, a local squire

Eppie, an orphan, adopted by Silas

Godfrey, Dunstan’s elder brother, Eppie’s real father

Plot: Silas is falsely charged with stealing church property and driven out of the community. He comes to live in Raveloe but his pile of gold is stolen by Dunstan Cass who disappears. The coming of a little girl called Eppie gives him new hope to survive and he adopts her. Many years later the draining of a pond near Silas’ door reveals Dunstan’s body with the gold. Silas is proved innocent. It turns out that Eppie is the daughter of Dunstan’s elder brother Godfrey who has child and comes to claim her. But she refuses to go with him.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ( 1810-1865)

1. Her life: daughter of a minister, and brought up by her aunt at Cheshire; married in 1832 William Gaskell, a minister in Manchester and mother of four daughters and a son who died in infancy; wrote novels to distract herself from her sorrow of losing her son; died of a heart failure

2. Her works (7 novels)

Mary Barton (1848)《玛丽巴顿》

Genre: her first novel

Setting: Manchester in the 1840s

Characters:

John Barton, worker and unionist

Mary Barton, his daughter

Henry Carson, son of an employer, Mary’s suitor

Jem Wilson, a young engineering worker, Mary’s admirer

Plot: Mary is loved by Henry Carson and she rejects Jem Wilson. A group of workers, exasperated by the failure of the employers to consider their grievances, decide to kill Henry Carson. And John Barton shoots him. But Jem Wilson is suspected as he is a rival to Henry. Mary, who now realizes that it is Jem that she really loves, comes to prove Jem’s innocence without betraying her father. Finally John confesses to Henry’s father as he dies.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist as well as a poet. He was very close to the English peasantry, and no other English writer had equaled Hardy’s achievement as both novelist and poet.

Hardy himself divided his novels into three groups:

1. Romances and Fantasies

篇二：The Bronte Sisters

The Bronte Sisters

1 The Bronte Sisters:

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

2 . the Lives of the Bronte Sisters

2.1 they came from a large family of Irish origin.

2.2 their father was a clergyman at Haworth Yorkshire’

2.3 when they were young, the Bronte Sisters weresent to a school for clergymen”sdaughters.

2.4 as they grew up, the sisters worked either as teacher or goveress in some private families.

2.5 in 1842, Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels to improve their foreign languages in order to open up a school of their own.

2.6 social life at Haworth was very limited for the Bronte Sisters.

2.7 when winter came, the Bronte children usually stayed at home.

2.8 in 1845, at Charlotte’s initiative, a volume of poetry entitled Poems by Currer , Ellis and Action Bell (the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily and Anne) was published at their own expense. 3 Misfortunes

3.1 Bronwell, the only boy in the family, the beloved of the sisters, died in September 1848.

3.2 Emily died of consumption in 1848.

3.3 Anne died of consumption in the summer in 1849.

3.4 Charlotte died a few months later in pregnancy.

4 Charlotte Bronte

4.1 Features

4.11 Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

4.12 Charlotte loves the beauty of nature but despises worldly ambition and success, In her mind, man’s life is composed of perpetual battle between sin and virtue, good and evil.

4.13 Allher heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.

4.14 She is a writer of realism combined with romanticism.

4.3 Jane Eyre《简爱》

4.31 Main Idea

Jane Eyre IS being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which Jane’s Uncle Reed died. While locked in, Jane, believing that she sees her uncle’s ghost, screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd, who suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane be sent away to school. To Jane’s delight, Mrs. Reed concurs.

Once at the Lowood School, Jane finds that her life is far from idyllic. The school’s headmaster is Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive man. Brocklehurst

preaches a doctrine of poverty and privation to his students while using the school’s funds to provide a wealthy and opulent lifestyle for his own family. At Lowood, Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns, whose strong attitude toward the school’s miseries is both helpful and displeasing to Jane. A massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, and Helen dies of consumption. The epidemic also results in the departure of Mr. Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the insalubrious conditions at Lowood. After a group of more

sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehurst’ s place, Jane’s life improves dramatically. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher.

After teaching for two years, Jane yearns for new experiences. She accepts a

governess position at a manor called Thornfield, where she teaches a lively French girl named Adèle. The distinguished housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax presides over the estate. Jane’s employer at Thornfield is a dark, impassioned man named Rochester, with whom Jane finds herself falling secretly in love. She saves Rochester from a fire one night, which he claims was started by a drunken servant named Grace Poole. But because Grace Poole continues to work at Thornfield, Jane concludes that she has not been told the entire story. Jane sinks into despondency when Rochester brings home a beautiful but vicious woman named Blanche Ingram. Jane expects Rochester to propose to Blanche. But Rochester instead proposes to Jane, who accepts almost disbelievingly.

The wedding day arrives, and as Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their vows, the voice of Mr. Mason cries out that Rochester already has a wife. Mason

introduces himself as the brother of that wife—a woman named Bertha. Mr. Mason testifies that Bertha, whom Rochester married when he was a young man in Jamaica, is still alive. Rochester does not deny Mason’s claims, but he explains that Bertha has gone mad. He takes the wedding party back to Thornfield, where they witness the insane Bertha Mason

scurrying around on all fours and growling like an animal. Rochester keeps Bertha hidden on the third story of Thornfield and pays Grace Poole to keep his wife under control. Bertha was the real cause of the mysterious fire earlier in the story. Knowing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane flees Thornfield.

Penniless and hungry, Jane is forced to sleep outdoors and beg for food. At last, three siblings who live in a manor alternatively called Marsh End and Moor House take her in. Their names are Mary, Diana, and St. John (pronounced “Sinjin”) Rivers, and Jane quickly becomes friends with them. St. John is a clergyman, and he finds Jane a job teaching at a charity school in Morton. He surprises her one day by declaring that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her a large fortune: 20,000 pounds. When Jane asks how he received this news, he shocks her further by declaring that her uncle was also his uncle: Jane and the Riverses are cousins. Jane immediately decides to share her inheritance equally with her three newfound relatives.

St. John decides to travel to India as a missionary, and he urges Jane to accompany him—as his wife. Jane agrees to go to India but refuses to marry her cousin because she does not love him. St. John pressures her to reconsider, and she nearly gives in. However, she realizes that she cannot abandon forever the man she truly loves when one night she hears Rochester’s voice calling her name over the moors. Jane immediately hurries back to Thornfield and finds that it has been burned to the ground by Bertha Mason, who lost her life in the fire. Rochester saved the servants but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. Jane travels on to Rochester’s new residence, Ferndean, where he lives with two servants named John and Mary.

At Ferndean, Rochester and Jane rebuild their relationship and soon marry. At the end of her story, Jane writes that she has been married for ten blissful years and that she and Rochester enjoy perfect equality in their life together. She says that after two years of

blindness, Rochester regained sight in one eye and was able to behold their first son at his birth.

4.32 Analysis

It is told from the person point of view, it is one of the most popular and important novel of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the exiting society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions and humiliation to be humble slaves the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt’s house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.

The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a final spirit and a longing to love and to be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master, a man superior to her in many ways, and even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him, cuts a complete new women image. She represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and her equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feeling and her thoughts and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.

4.33 Social class

Jane Eyre is critical of Victorian England’s strict social hierarchy. Bronte’s exploraton of the complicated positions perhaps the novel’s most important treatment of this theme.

4.34 Symbols

“fire and ice”: fire and ice appear through Jane Eyre. The former represents Jane’s passions,

anger, and spirit, while the latter symbolize the oppressive forces trying to extinguish Jane’s vitality.

5 Emily Bronte埃米利 勃朗特(1818-1848)

5.1 Features:

5.11 Emily was a reserved and simple girl, very much a child of nature. She was never tired of staying outside in the open moorland in all weathers and never at ease when she was away from it.

5.12 She was much more a genius than her elder sister.

5.13 As far as her literary creation is concerned, she is, first of all, a poet. Her 193 poems, mostly devoted to the matter of nature with its mysterious working an unaccountable influence upon people’s life, are works of strange sublimity and beauty.

5.2 Work: Wuthering Heights

5.21 Main idea

Wuthering Heights opens with Lockwood, a tenant of Heathcliff's, visiting the home of his landlord. A subsequent visit to Wuthering Heights yields an accident and a curious supernatural encounter, which pique Lockwood's curiosity. Back at Thrushcross Grange and recuperating from his illness, Lockwood begs Nelly Dean, a servant who grew up in Wuthering Heights and now cares for Thrushcross Grange, to tell him of the history of Heathcliff. Nelly narrates the main plot line of Wuthering Heights.

Mr. Earnshaw, a Yorkshire Farmer and owner of Wuthering Heights, brings home an orphan from Liverpool. The boy is named Heathcliff and is raised with the Earnshaw children,

Hindley and Catherine. Catherine loves Heathcliff but Hindley hates him because Heathcliff has replaced Hindley in Mr. Earnshaw's affection. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Hindley does what he can to destroy Heathcliff, but Catherine and Heathcliff grow up playing wildly on the moors, oblivious of anything or anyone else — until they encounter the Lintons.

Edgar and Isabella Linton live at Thrushcross Grange and are the complete opposites of

Heathcliff and Catherine. The Lintons welcome Catherine into their home but shun Heathcliff. Treated as an outsider once again, Heathcliff begins to think about revenge. Catherine, at first, splits her time between Heathcliff and Edgar, but soon she spends more time with Edgar, which makes Heathcliff jealous. When Heathcliff overhears Catherine tell Nelly that she can never marry him (Heathcliff), he leaves Wuthering Heights and is gone for three years.

While he is gone, Catherine continues to court and ends up marrying Edgar. Their happiness is short-lived because they are from two different worlds, and their relationship is strained

further when Heathcliff returns. Relationships are complicated even more as Heathcliff winds up living with his enemy, Hindley (and Hindley's son, Hareton), at Wuthering Heights and marries Isabella, Edgar's sister. Soon after Heathcliff's marriage, Catherine gives birth to Edgar's daughter, Cathy, and dies.

Heathcliff vows revenge and does not care who he hurts while executing it. He desires to gain control of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and to destroy everything Edgar Linton holds dear. In order to exact his revenge, Heathcliff must wait 17 years. Finally, he forces Cathy to marry his son, Linton. By this time he has control of the Heights and with Edgar's death, he has control of the Grange.

Through all of this, though, the ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff. What he truly desires more than anything else is to be reunited with his soul mate. At the end of the novel,

Heathcliff and Catherine are united in death, and Hareton and Cathy are going to be united in marriage.

5.22Analysis

The novel is a riddle which means different things to different people. From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused, betrayed and distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody. As a love story, this is one of the most moving: the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine pruves passion ever to be found possible in human beings.

The story is told from the third person point of view. It uses flashbacks which makes the srory all the more enticing and genuine.

5.23

? From the social point of ciew, the story is a tragedy of social inequality.

? At some deeper level, however, the story is more than a mere copy of real life.

? Apparently the harmony of the world in Wuthing Heights is to be perceived not only in

terms of balance between the membership and geographical positions of the two families, but also, and more importantly, between the nature or temperaments of the two families. ? It is a tale not of the society or people but of elemental, universal passions.

6. Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

6.1 Something about Anne Bornte

Relatively little is known about Anne Bront?'s life. Records indicate where she was and suggest general outlines of what she was doing; her published works suggest something of her experience and beliefs; but few records survive of her daily life and feelings, in her own words or those of

篇三：广东省东莞市第一中学2012届高三上学期期中考试(英语)

广东省东莞市第一中学2012届高三上学期期中考试（英语）

I. 语言知识及应用 (共两节。满分45分)

第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各小题所给的A、B、C和D项中，

选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Not too long ago, an incident that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest checking out of our Polynesian Village resort (度假胜地clerk she had had a(n) 2 vacation, but was very sad about 3 several rolls of Kodak color film she had not Luau, as this was a memory she especially treasured.

Now, please understand that we have no 6 service rules covering lost photos in the park. 7 , the clerk at the front desk understood Disney’s idea of caring for our 8 . She asked the woman to leave her a she would take the pictures of the rest of our show for her at Polynesian Luau. Two weeks later the guest received a 10 at her home. In it were photos of all the actors of our show, of the public procession and fireworks in the park, taken letter. She said that never in her life had she received such good service from any business.

not come from authoritative handbooks. It comes from people ---and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude.

1. A. expected

2. A. terrible

3. A. taking

4. A. developed

5. A. stubborn

6. A. written

7. A. Excitedly

8. A. workers

9. A. betting

10. A. film

11. A. violently

12. A. rules

13. A. case

14. A. advice B. realized B. wonderful B. dropping B. taken B. nervous B. spoken B. Fortunately B. guests B. permitting B. card B. personally B. pictures B. work B. experience C. paid C. uncomfortable C. losing C. washed C. calm C. kept C. Regularly C. managers C. promising C. camera C. gently C. handbooks C. time C. quality D. enjoyed D. regretful D. breaking D. loaded D. heartbroken D. confirmed D. Quietly D. clerks D. hoping D. packet D. frequently D. performances D. position D. service

15. A. care B. serve C. like D. know

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入

一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为

16～25的相应位置上。

crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and was considered to be in fashion _ 17 __ the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom 18 (keep) by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who consider it _ 19 _ a necessity to marriage procedure.

It is very much 20 same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. Otherwise, the bride’s neighbors would look down upon 21 as a poorly educated girl and she would become the was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

(false) sorrowful words. However, in the (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were

II.阅读 (共两节, 满分50分)

第一节 阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A

Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some forms—football, basketball, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering. Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks in high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as others, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of different kinds which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains

are free to use their own methods.

If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there

is obviously teamwork.

26. What sports are popular among people in winter in the passage?

A. Soccer and golf. B. Skiing and skating.

C. Cycling and hockey. D. Mountaineering.

27. The underlined word “passion” in Paragraph 2 could best be replaced by _______.

A. strong liking B. good way

C. good skill D. special ability

28. Mountaineering is a sport, not a game because________.

A. it must follow man-made rules

B. it is too dangerous for climbers

C. it can’t bring people joy or leisure

D. it is free for climbers to use their own methods

29. We know from the passage that ________.

A. mountaineering has no appeal for people

B. physical quality is more important than mental one for climbers

C. a mountain climber passes his best by the age of thirty

D. it is possible for an old man of fifty or sixty to climb the Alps

30. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Sports in winter B. Team work in climbing

C. Mountaineering D. The quality for mountaineering

B

The Bronte sisters were three sisters who became famous novelists. Patrick Bronte, the sisters’ father, was a poor Irishman who became the church clergyman of the small town of Haworth, Yorkshire. Bronte was somewhat strange and was strict. His wife died in 1821 and her sister brought up the family conscientiously, but with little affection or understanding. The sisters went to several boarding schools where they received a better education than usual for girls at that time, but in a harsh atmosphere.

Few jobs were available for women at that time, and the Bronte sisters, except for occasional jobs as governesses (女家庭教师) or schoolteachers, lived their entire lives at home. They were shy, poor, and lonely, and occupied themselves with music, drawing, reading and ---above all---writing. Their isolation(孤立) led to the early development of their imaginations. In 1846, under the male pen names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, the sisters published a joint volume of poems. Although only two copies were sold, all three sisters soon had their first novels published.

Charlotte Bronte was one of the three sisters. Her most famous novel Jane Eyre (1847) is largely governess in a large house. Rochester, the hero and master of the house, is fictional. Jane Eyre was enormously successful, and some readers thought that Rochester should marry her. But many readers thought Jane should be a thinking and independent person, rather than as a weak wife.

Charlotte Bronte wrote three other novels. The first one, The Professor, was not published until 1857, after her death. Shirley (1849) is set among the labour riots of the early 1800s. Villette (1853) the most popular of the three, is based on Charlotte’s unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels.

31. Of Charlotte Bronte’s novels, which is the first published?

A. Jane Eyre. B. The professor. C. Villette. D. Shirley.

32. The underlined word “autobiographical” in paragraph 3 most probably means ___________.

A. popular

B. likely to cause sympathy C. relating to her own life D. concerning female issues

33. We can infer from the passage that __________.

A. the three sisters were badly treated by their step-mother

B. The three Bronte sisters were brought up in Ireland

C. Haworth was suffering high unemployment at the time of the three Bronte sisters

D. writing was not popular for women in the 19th century in Britain

34. In many readers’ eyes, Rochester__________.

A. acted too rudely towards Jane

B. should not be Jane’s husband

C. was too bad to be truthful

D. should be Jane’s master as well as her husband

35. What will probably be discussed in the coming paragraphs of this passage?

A. The other two sisters’ works. B. How Jane Eyre was successful.

C. How Charlotte Bronte died. D. Why their novels outweighed their poems.

C

With large and small keyboards everywhere, neither children nor adults need to write much of anything by hand. That’s a big problem. Study after study suggests that handwriting is important for brain development — helping kids get fine motor skills and learn to express and create ideas. Yet the time devoted to teaching penmanship in most schools has decreased to just one hour a week. Is it time to give up handwriting? Have a look at the link between the brain and penmanship, and you may get the answer.

A test among students in grades 2, 4 and 6 found that they not only wrote faster by hand than by keyboard, but also created more ideas when composing essays with handwriting. And other research shows that the finger movements required to write by hand to activate brain areas involved with thought, language, and short-term

memory.

Studies show that this isn’t only an English-language phenomenon. Chinese and Japanese youths are suffering from “character amnesia”. They can’t remember how to write characters, thanks to computers and text messaging. Some experts fear that Chinese writing and reading are so closely linked in the brain that China’s reading ability as a nation could suffer.

36. According to the passage, it can be learned that __________.

篇四：The Bronte sisters, legendary and luminous beacons of literature

The Bronte Sisters, Legendary and Luminous Beacons of Literature After 160 years, the power of the Bronte sisters' brilliant splendor has not dimmed at all. The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in world literature and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. For the first time ever, readers unites these two enduring favorites with the lesser known but no less powerful work by their youngest sister, Anne. Drawn from Anne's own experiences as a governess, Agnes Grey offers a view of male chauvinism and prevalent materialism. Its inclusion makes The Bronte Sisters a required volume for anyone fascinated by this talented family.

Since I have very little knowledge about Ann Bronte and her works, In the following paragraphs, I would like strain myself to talk coarsely about some personal understanding of Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre.

1. Brief Living background

It is universally acknowledged that the living backgrounds of writers would have profound influence on their works. So, knowing something about the family background is necessary for us.

It is amazing that three writers who influenced the direction of the English novel happened to be sisters. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte were all born in Thornton, England in the early 1800s. Their father Patrick was a clergyman. He and his wife had

six children. The two oldest daughters, Maria and Elizabeth died before reaching adulthood. Of the remaining children, Charlotte was the eldest, followed by brother Patrick Barnwell, then Emily and Anne.

Shortly after Anne's birth, the family moved to another place for the father’s another job offer. Mrs. Bronte died soon after reaching the destination and the children were cared for by an aunt. Charlotte and Emily were sent to Clergy Daughters' School, but they returned within a year because of the harsh treatment. Charlotte later modeled Lowood School (Jane Eyre) after it.

Soon after nearly a decade of study and work, Charlotte's attempt was published in October, 1847. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography was an immediate success. Several months later Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights were published together in three volumes. Their career as writers really took off. However, misfortune befell on Emily soon after Wuthering Heights was published, she passed away tragically.

The next year was another tragedy for the Bronte sisters. Anne passed away due to tuberculosis. A few years later, Charlotte accepted an offer of marriage from Arthur Bell Nicholls .They enjoyed brief happiness. Unfortunately, Charlotte fell ill during pregnancy, and then tragically passed away with an unfinished work entitled Emma. 2. Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. After reading this novel,

I think the novel goes through five distinct stages:

①.Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins;

②. Her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression;

③.Her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her employer, Edward Rochester;

④.Her time with the Rivers family during which her earnest but cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her;

⑤.The story ended up with the reunion and marriage to her beloved Rochester. The story unfolds in these five scenes, and has been generally regarded as the autobiography of Charlotte herself. According to living background recounted in part one, the early sequences, in which Jane is sent to Lowood, a harsh boarding school, are derived from the author's own experiences. Helen's death from tuberculosis recalls the deaths of Charlotte Bronte’s sisters Elizabeth and Maria, who died of the disease in childhood as a result of the conditions at their school, the Clergy Daughters School. So Helen Burns is probably modeled on Charlotte's sister Maria. Additionally, John Reed's decline into alcoholism and dissolution recalls the life of Charlotte's brother Branwell, who became an opium and alcohol addict in the years preceding his death. Finally, like Jane, Charlotte becomes a governess. So obviously the whole novel was based on the narrator’s personal experience, thus making the story depicted vividly

and actual, and arouses reader’s empathy and inner shock.

In this splendid work, I think two factors impress me most:

1. Feminism: As a young woman, small and of relatively low social status, Jane encounters men during her journey, of good, bad, and morally debatable characters. However, virtually all of them, no matter what their intentions are, attempt to establish some form of power and control over Jane. One example can be seen in Mr. Rochester, a man who fervently loves Jane, but who constantly commands and orders Jane about. As a man, Mr. Rochester naturally assumes the position of the master in their relationship. He tends to demand rather than question Jane, manipulate her feelings as he wishes. Jane, however, believes in the importance of women's independence, and strives to maintain a position in life devoid of owing anything to others. Even after Jane agrees to marry Mr. Rochester, and is swept up in the passion of the moment, the feminist elements of her personality still shimmer. She is uncomfortable with the extravagant gifts, as she resents that they will make her further dependent on and owing something to Mr. Rochester, thus tries to resist them. Furthermore, Jane asserts that even after she is married to Mr. Rochester, she will continue to be Adele’s governess and earn her keep. This plan, which was entirely radical of for the time, illustrates Jane's drive to remain an independent woman. She would not rely on a man, even if he were her husband. Confronting all the men’s manipulation, she in most cases remains resistant at least to a certain degree, refusing to fully yield or lose all of her independence. This final adherence to her strong wish on the independence of women reflects Bronte’s similar views.

2. The yearning for family and home: Significantly, homes play a prominent part in the story.. The novel's opening finds Jane living at Gateshead Hall, but this is hardly a home. Mrs. Reed and her children refuse to acknowledge her as a independent girl, treating her instead as an unwanted intruder and an inferior.

Then Lowood Institution, a boarding school for orphans and destitute children, Jane finds a home, although her place here is ambiguous and temporary.

Jane subsequently believes she has found a home at Thorn field Hall, originally thinks the worst when she arrives; she is relieved when she is welcomed by Mrs. Fairfax. She feels genuine affection for Adele and is happy to serve as her governess. As her love for Mr. Rochester grows, she believes that she has found her ideal husband in spite of his eccentric manner and that they will make a home together at Thorn field. The revelation — as they are on the brim of marriage — that he is already legally married — brings her dream of home crashing into pieces. Fleeing from Thorn field, she literally becomes homeless and is reduced to begging for food and shelter. The opportunity of having a home presents itself when she enters Moor House, where the Rivers sisters and their brother are mourning the death of their father. She soon speaks of Diana and Mary Rivers as her own sisters, and is overjoyed when she learns that they are indeed her cousins. However, St. John Rivers' offer of marriage cannot cut off her emotional attachment to Rochester. In an almost visionary episode, she hears Mr. Rochester's voice calling her to return to him. The last chapter begins with the famous simple declarative sentence, "Reader, I married him," and after a long series of trials Jane's search for home and family ends in a union with her

篇五：高二英语第三次考试

南昌二中2014—2015学年度上学期第三次考试

高二英语试卷

命题人：熊 姿 审题人：唐思峰

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）。满分为150 分。考试用时120 分钟。

第I卷（共 105 分）

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节 听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What should the man do now?

A. Clean his room B. Keep himself busy C. Leave the room in a mess

2. Where is Elizabeth now?

A. On TV. B. In the hall C. On the stage.

3. How much should the man pay to rent a car for a week?

A. 80 dollars. B. 100 dollars. C. 120 dollars.

4. What?s wrong with the woman?s car?

A. Her car is being repaired.

B. Her car often breaks down halfway.

C. Her car is used as a taxi.

5. How did Louis go to Los Angeles?

A. By plane. B. By car. C. By train.

第二节 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What relationship do you guess the two speakers are?

A. Friends. B. Workmates. C. Strangers.

7.By what means does the woman advise the man to get to the Huanghai Hotel at last？

A. Taxi. B. Bus. C. Bike.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. How does the man feel now?

A. Tired. B. Depressed. C. Desperate.

9. How many courses did the man fail in the end-of-year exams?

A. Two B. Only one. C. Three.

10. What will the woman do if she fails an exam in her country?

A. Take the whole course again. B. Pay some money for it. C. Get a chance to take it again 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What has been done for the party?

A. A big cake has been ordered.

B. The invitations have been made.

C. The activities have been planned.

12. What will they serve at the party?

A. Red wine. B. French dishes. C. Chicken and beef.

13. What does the woman plan to do so that she can have fun?

A. The woman has planned the menu.

B. The woman has hired two people to help her.

C. The woman has prepared some paper products.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At a hotel. B. At a book store. C. In a shopping mall.

15. What does the man consider first when choosing a suitcase?

A. Its size. B. The material it is made of. C. Its color and fashion.

16. Why does the woman recommend the wallet?

A. Because it?s very cheap.

B. Because it?s popular and can be folded.

C. Because it?s big.

17. How much does the man pay the woman at last?

A. 580 yuan. B. 720 yuan. C. 1,3000 yuan.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Between what ages were the people when questioned in the survey?

A. 18 and 85. B. 80 and 85. C. 22 and 25.

19. What questions were asked in the survey?

A. Questions about emotions and mental stress.

B. Questions about emotional stress and physical health.

C. Questions about living conditions and physical health.

20. How does the emotion differ between women and men?

A. As they grow older, women are happier than men.

B. At all ages, women report more sadness, stress and worry than men.

C. As they grow older, women and men experience the same level of happiness.

第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；满分40分）

第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters'.

Their father was Patrick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy.

Charlotte was born in 1816, Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely selfeducated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.

As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher, but there was no interest shown in Charlotte's book (It was not published until 1859). However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her works. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847. not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like. But gradually it came to be considered as one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of her book, and Anne died in 1849.

Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis(肺结核) as her sisters had.

21. What did the Bronte sisters do for Branwell Bronte?

A. They helped him Write stories. B. They helped him get trained in art.

C. They taught him how to draw well. D. They taught him how to educate himself.

22. Which was published after the death of its writer?

A. Shirley. B. Villette. C. Agnes Grey. D. The Professor,

23. The underlined words "the other two" in the 5th paragraph refer to_____.

A. Shirley and Villette B. The Professor and Agnes Grey

C. Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights D. The Professor and Wuthering Heights

24. What do we know about the Bronte sisters?

A. Their novels interested few publishers.

B. None of them lived longer than 40 years old.

C. None of them had more than two books published.

D. Emily was the least successful of the three.

B

Many women all over the world are in shock and upset – Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch, 38, has announced that he is engaged (订婚) to be married.

The online mood was summed up by the user Evelyn Booth on Twitter, a social network: “Well Benedict Cumberbatch is off the market. Totally happy for him but inside I?m dying.”

However, his fans were still charmed by the traditionally British way that he announced his engagement to the 36-year-old theater director and actress Sophie Hunter. Instead of having his publicist pen a statement or posting a silly photo on social media, the actor instead chose to place a message in Britain?s The Times newspaper, the BBC reported.

Cumberbatch was following traditional British etiquette (礼仪), which states that a newly-engaged couple should tell their parents and friends first. The engagement “may then be announced publicly in the ?Forthcoming Marriages? column of a local or national newspaper”, according to the Debrett?s British etiquette website.

And indeed, the simple notice in The Times is headed “Mr B.T. Cumberbatch and Miss S.I. Hunter” and simply says: “The engagement is announced between Benedict, son of Wanda and Timothy Cumberbatch of London, and Sophie, daughter of Katherine Hunter of Edinburgh and Charles Hunter of London.”

So what happens next? Well, if tradition is to be followed, then the proud Mrs Cumberbatch -to-be (准新郎) should write to the bride-to-be?s parents, expressing her happiness at the engagement.”

But the friends of the soon-to-be Mr and Mrs Cumberbatch may also have an engagement party to look forward to after they send their congratulations. And although the father of the bride traditionally makes a speech at the wedding itself, Mr Hunter may also be needed at the party: “The bride-to-be?s father, if he is a host of a party, should make an informal speech and toast the couple.”

So if you?re still a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch despite feeling heartbroken, perhaps you should dry your tears and send him a letter of congratulations. A man of such British traditions would surely appreciate it.

25. According to the article, a great many of Benedict Cumberbatch?s fans felt ______ at the news that he was engaged.

A. annoyed B. excited C. happy and upset D. confused and anxious

26. The underlined phrase “get off on the right foot” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ____.

A. make a good start B. draw a lot of attentionC. settle down D. be accepted or supported

27. Which is the correct order of the following events when a couple decides to get engaged, according to traditional British etiquette?

a. hold an engagement party

b. announce the engagement publicly in a newspaper

c. tell your parents and friends about it

d. receive letters or cards of congratulations from your friends

A. a, b, c, d B. c, a, b, d C. c, b, d, a D. b, c, d, a

28. The main purpose of the article is to ______.

A. explain the reasons why Benedict Cumberbatch is so popular all over the world

B. advise fans of Benedict Cumberbatch to send him letters of congratulations

C. inform readers about Benedict Cumberbatch?s engagement and the relevant British etiquette

D. compare Benedict Cumberbatch?s announcement of his engagement with those of other celebrities

C

Miami Museum of Science

Ticket price includes entrance to all museum galleries, planetarium (天文馆) shows, and the wildlife center.

Regular Admission Prices

Adults: $14.95

Seniors (62+): $10.95

Students (w/ID): $10.95

Children (3-12): $10.95

Children (2 and under): Free

Hours

Open: Daily from 10 am to 6 pm (box office closes at 5:30 pm)

Closed: Thanksgiving and Christmas Day

Current Exhibits

Under the Sea!

Now on view through August are 26 award-winning photographs from the University of Miami?s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Annual Underwater Photography Contest. These delightful images provide Museum visitors a window into our hidden undersea world. The exhibition will be open exclusively on weekends, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday. Hurricanes

Prepare to be blown away by this new exhibition! Climb inside the cockpit (驾驶员座舱) of a real P-3 Hurricane Hunter airplane, construct a house and test its strength against a storm, and see remarkable film and artifacts (人工制品) from the most deadly storm to affect our community in recent history, Hurricane Andrew.

Wildlife Center

This unique outdoor experience exhibits alligators, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, and amazing birds of prey including bald eagles, hawks, and owls. Why are they here? The Falcon Batchelor Bird of Prey and Rehabilitation Center of the Miami Science Museum is a facility dedicated to the ecological research, rehabilitation (康复), and release of injured birds of prey. This behind-the-scenes space is now viewable to visitors and is dedicated to the treatment of local injured wildlife.

Heart Smart

How do you treat your heart? Do you love it like it deserves to be loved?

At Heart Smart visitors investigate their own heart health and evaluate their own personal risks. Using a computer tracking system, measure your own blood pressure, height, weight, waist size and health habits, then get some advice to help you take control of your own health. The results are stored on the web where, once you get home, you can privately review your statistics.

29. To see the photograph exhibition at Miami Museum of Science, you should ______.

A. come and visit on weekdays B. arrive before 5:30 pm on weekends in August

C. book the tickets online beforehand D. wait until Thanksgiving Day

30. Those who are not interested in indoor exhibitions should visit ______.

A. Under the Sea! B. Hurricanes C. the Wildlife Center D. Heart Smart

31. You can do all the following in Heart Smart EXCEPT ______.

A. measure your blood pressure B. get some health advice

C. store your results online D. play interactive health games

32. How much would it cost two middle-aged parents and a high school boy to visit the museum?

A. $ 32.85. B. $ 36.85. C. $ 40.85. D. $ 44.85

D

Can the way you stand or sit affect your success?

This is often discussed in business – “the importance of body language”, noted US news website Business Insider. “It actually has an impact on not just the way others look at us, but also how we actually perform.”

That?s perhaps why Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy shot to instant fame (一举成名) after giving a TED talk on the subject in 2012. According to The New York Times, Cuddy?s speech is among the most viewed TED talks of all time.

Cuddy and her team study body language, particularly what they call “high-power” and “low-power” poses. Their research showed that standing or sitting in a certain way, even for just two minutes, changes one?s body chemistry and self-perception.

“I wanted to equip people with tools that would help them feel stronger, less fearful, and better able to bring their full, spirited selves to stressful situations like speaking in class,” Cuddy told CNN.

“High-power” refers to the act of taking a posture of confidence, even when you don?t feel very confident. Typical high-power poses are about opening up. You stretch and expand your body to take up as much space as possible. For example, bosses are doing high-power poses when they lean back in their chairs, put their hands behind their heads, and kick their feet up onto their desks. Meanwhile, people take low-power positions when they?re feeling helpless or defeated. They close up, wrapping their arms around themselves and tucking their limbs in (缩起四肢).

“This isn?t about what your body language is communicating to others, it?s about what your body language is communicating to you. Your body language is changing your mind, which changes your behavior, which changes your outcomes,” said Cuddy.

The best-known high power pose is nicknamed the “Wonder Woman” pose. You just stand tall with your chest out and your hands on your hips. Why not give it a try, and see whether you feel more confident than before?

33. According to the article, Professor Amy Cuddy wanted her study on body language to ______.

A. help people to become more confident

B. make people fitter and stronger

C. teach people how to make a better speech

D. help distinguish between people of different social classes

34. Which of the following is probably a high-power pose, according to the article?

A. Folding your arms.

B. Looking down while in the presence of others.

C. Sitting with your arm spread out around the chair next to you.

D. Resting your chin on your hands as if wondering about something.

35. The main purpose of this article is to ______.

A. explain what has made Amy Cuddy?s TED talk so popular

B. give practical tips on how to communicate with others

C. help the reader to tell the difference between a high-power pose and a low-power one

D. tell the importance of body language in our success

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