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  3. A ) The first published sketch, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of

A ) The first published sketch, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of

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问题 A ) The first published sketch, "A Dinner at Poplar 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, became 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. Dickens’s mother supposedly came from a more respectable family. Yet two years before Dickens’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.
Order:
D→【B1】→【B2】→【B3】→【B4】→B→【B5】
【B1】
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答案F
解析 本填空处于文章第二段的位置，首段已经被明确为段落D)。通读段落D)会发现此段落是对狄更斯起始性的总体介绍，那么第二段自然应该是对狄更斯生平的顺延性描述。考虑到本题的诸多段落选项均由明显的标志性线索词汇引导，本空组合运用“上下文逻辑关系定位法”“无关词排除法”和“代词指代法”就能迅速排除无关选项，从而扫清外围，逐步缩小目标选项的范围，具体如下：段落C)开头出现的“Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared”说明该段落之前的文章信息至少提及了Sketches by Boz，否则无法形成上下文的衔接。由于文章首段D)的信息中没有出现过Sketches by Boz，因此可排除选项C)。段落E)开头出现的“Soon after his father’s release from prison”说明该段落之前的文章信息提及了狄更斯父入亲狱的事情。由于文章首段D)中没有出现过此信息，因此可排除选项E)。段落G)开头出现的“After Pickwick，”说明该段落之前的文章信息提及了Pickwick，由于文章首段D)中没有出现过此信息，因此排除选项G)。排除了上述三个选项后，再加上段落B)的位置也已明确给出，因此本题的答案只需要在段落A)和F)之间选择。段落A)主要谈论狄更斯的第一部作品，而段落F)从开始就介绍狄更斯的生平，如：他出生在哪里，他的父母以及他儿时的生活等。很明显在顺序上，段落F)的位置应该在段落A)之前，而且段落F)的信息与文章首段D)衔接更为紧密，因此本题的最佳答案为选项F)。
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