首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Fanny Kemble(1809—93)was the niece of two Shakespearean tragedians, Sarah Siddons and Siddons’s brother, John Philip Kemble.【R1】
Fanny Kemble(1809—93)was the niece of two Shakespearean tragedians, Sarah Siddons and Siddons’s brother, John Philip Kemble.【R1】
admin
2018-10-19
60
问题
Fanny Kemble(1809—93)was the niece of two Shakespearean tragedians, Sarah Siddons and Siddons’s brother, John Philip Kemble.【R1】______In fact her whole extended family constituted the foremost theatrical dynasty of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Handsome and gifted, they crop up in letters and diaries throughout the period, and were generally regarded as a kind of royalty: a race apart.
【R2】______As her friend Henry James noted: " in two hemispheres, she had seen everyone, had known everyone". What’s more, she recorded it all in many volumes of vividly written memoirs, all swarming with people, criticism, social commentary, anecdote, scenery, political o-pinion and superb set-pieces: the digging of Brunei’s Thames tunnel, for instance.
Kemble’s memoirs, especially her "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation" , are as important historically as they are engrossing. But what fascinates us now is the way that Fanny, clever and reckless as she was, broke the rules-or the way she appropriated and revised the role prescribed to her by gender politics.
【R3】______She spoke her mind and thought nothing of walking into a stream fully clothed if it was hot. It wasn’t until her marriage that her gender collided with the realities of power and money. Though she was never intended for the stage, the looming bankruptcy of her father obliged her to try her chances. Overnight, she became the toast of London. Money flowed, and yet more on a tour of America, where she met a seductive young man, Pierce Butler, heir to huge rice and cotton slave-plantations in Georgia. Hoping to escape the shallow emotionalism of the theatre, assuming a companionship of equals and somehow she managed to forget the slaves, she married him.
【R4】______ Butler, deeply illiberal exerted his rights. He appropriated her earnings, censored her writing and when she woke to the horrors of slavery, forbade her public opposition to it. She wept, she ran away, she returned. The birth of children, in whom she had no legal rights, further enchained her.
【R5】______The Butlers did divorce. She did lose the children. But on their majority, she recovered them. She made her own money again. Criss-crossing the Atlantic, she gave Shakespeare readings to packed audiences. Every summer, she climbed the Alps, startling the guides by singing loudly as she went. She met James in 1872 and he fell under her spell, fascinated by her proud idealism, her eccentric honesty and above all by her talk of "old London". "She reanimated the old drawing rooms, " he wrote, "relighted the old lamps, returned the old pianos. " When at last she died, he felt it, he said, "like the end of some reign or the fall of some empire. "
Questions 61 to 65
A. At a stroke she lost everything.
B. The rest of Kemble’s life was sheer indomitability.
C. The real competition for any biographer of Kemble is Kemble herself.
D. She forgot the existence of slavery in American plantations.
E. She never cared about such prescriptions.
F. The Kemble family was once a royal family that is separated from common people.
G. Her father and her French mother were also actors.
【R4】
选项
答案
A
解析
本段介绍的是写肯布尔的丈夫奴隶主观念很深,对她多加限制。A项说“肯布尔一时冲动嫁给他让她失去了一切”。最能连贯上下文。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TiyK777K
本试题收录于:
A类竞赛(研究生)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
A类竞赛(研究生)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
—YoumaythinkI’mmad,butafteragreatdealofthought,I’venowfinallycometoadecision:IwanttostudyinEngland.—__
Theannalsofnaturalhistorycontainmanyastonishingexamplesoftheabilityofanimalstofindtheirwayhomeaftermakingdi
Whatisthenumberthatisonehalfofonequarterofonetenthof400?
Insixteenth-centuryItalyandeighteenth-centuryFrance,waningprosperityandincreasingsocialunrestledtherulingfamilies
Insixteenth-centuryItalyandeighteenth-centuryFrance,waningprosperityandincreasingsocialunrestledtherulingfamilies
Oneofthequestionscomingintofocusaswefacegrowingscarcityofresourcesintheworldishowtodividelimitedresources
Whatisthenewdiscoveryabout?
Einsteinwasamanofuncommonly______intelligence.Hediscoveredwhatfewpeoplecoulddo.
Sheis______amusicianthanherbrother.
Oncetheyhadfame,fortune,securefutures:______isutterpoverty.
随机试题
物流企业的基础性服务功能主要包括()
A.热射病B.热痉挛C.热衰竭D.日射病E.混合型
某护士采血时将血常规管中的血液倒人生化管内检查离子、血糖,这样做会使患者的哪项数值增高
法律职业制度
下列有关企事业单位排放污染物的行政责任的下列说法正确的是:()
银行确立贷款意向后,为确信某笔贷款是否必须提交董事会决议,应()。
处分共有的不动产或者动产以及对共有的不动产或者动产做重大修缮的,应当经占份额()共有人或者全体共同共有人同意。
消费者市场是指所有为了()而购买商品或服务的个人和家庭所构成的市场。
王某于2010年共用360万元分别在某市的A、B两个小区各买一套住房,2013年两套住房都有所升值,A小区升值20%、B小区升值10%,在两套住房被卖出后,王某共赚到48万元,则王某最初在A、B两个小区购买两套房的投资比例是()。
Автобусавсенебыло,мыстали____,чтоопоздаемназанятия.
最新回复
(
0
)