Born in 1830 in rural Amherst, Massachusetts,
Emily Dickinson spent her entire life in the household of her
parents. Between 1858 and 1862, it was later discovered, she wrote
like a person possessed, often producing a poem a day. It was also
during this period that her life was transformed into the myth of
Amherst. Withdrawing more and more, keeping to her room, sometimes
even refusing to see visitors who called, she began to dress only
in white -- a habit that added to her reputation as an
eccentric.
In their determination to read Dickinson's life
in terms of a traditional romantic plot, biographers have missed
the unique pattern of her life -- her struggle to create a female
life not yet imagined by the culture in which she lived. Dickinson
was not the innocent, lovelorn, and emotionally fragile girl
sentimentalized by the Dickinson myth and popularized by William
Luce's 1976 play, The Belle of Amherst. Her decision to shut the
door on Amherst society in the 1850s transformed her house into a
kind of magical realm in which she was free to engage her poetic
genius. Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affair,
but rather a part of a more general pattern of renunciation through
which she, in her quest for self-sovereignty, carried on an
argument with the Puritan fathers, attacking with wit and irony
their cheerless Calvinist doctrine, their stern patriarchal God,
and their rigid notions of "true womanhood."
1. What is the author's main purpose in the
passage?
A. To interpret Emily
Dickinson's eccentric behavior.
B. To promote the popular myth
of Emily Dickinson.
C. To discuss Emily
Dickinson's failed love affair.
D. To describe the religious
climate in Emily Dickinson's time.
2. According to the passage, the period from 1858 to 1862 was for
Emily Dickinson a period of great
A.
tragedy.
B.
sociability.
C.
productivity.
D. frivolity.
3. Which to the passage, biographers of Emily Dickinson have
traditionally
A.
criticized most of her poems.
B. ignored her innocence and
emotional fragility.
C. seen her life in romantic
terms.
D. blamed her parents for
restricting her activities.
4. Why does the author mention William Luce's play The Belle of
Amherst?
A. To give an example of the
sentimentalized Emily Dickinson myth.
B. To show how popular Emily
Dickinson's poems have become.
C. To show that Emily
Dickinson was also an actress.
D. To illustrate the
theatrical quality of Emily Dickinson's poems.
5. The author implies that many people attribute Emily Dickinson's
seclusion to
A. physical
illness.
B. a failed love affair.
C. religious
fervor.
D. her dislike of
people.
Emily Dickinson (1830–86) an
American poet whose work has had a strong influence on modern
poetry. Her poems were often about religion and death, and they
contain impressive images. She wrote nearly 1 800 of them, but only
seven were published during her life. Dickinson spent the last half
of her life alone in her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, writing
secretly.
我这人，有一阵子就会对一件事很有兴趣，过一阵子又没了兴趣。这几天偶尔把从前备考英语专业八级的书翻了出来，随便读一读，发现难度还可以，不像从前读着那么难懂，后面的选择题基本上都能做对，文章的难度虽然比高考大很多，题的设置似乎是都比较简单。而有些高考的阅读文就比较BT，文章能读懂，就是做不对答案。
还是感觉有必要提高自己，一方面多背一点单词，一方面多做一些阅读理解的文章，提高自己对这类题型的理解。所以决定从现在开始，每天至少读一篇专业八级的文章，精读一篇，背会其中的生词。还把从前无意中下到的一个背单词的小软件利用了起来，每天可以对自己的掌握情况进行测验和复习，很方便。接下来就看自己是不是能够坚持了。这一次，希望至少坚持三周以上，据说，任何一个习惯的养成，都需要至少三周的时间，一个方法到底好不好，管不管用就看三周二十一天之后的效果了。文章都是自己一个字一个字地输入的，我向来对自己文字录入的工作非常自信，尤其是录入英文，第一遍几乎很少出错，经过第二、三次检查，可以保证整篇文章无一处错误，PERFECT。
前段时间还跑到外研社的书店买了200多块钱的书，几本都非常不错，最贵的一本就是朗文高阶美国英语词典，100块，从前一直用的都是牛津高阶词典第五版英文原版，是我用过最好的词典了，简直太棒了，可惜国外印刷的词典装订不大好，书皮早几年就不知道哪里去了，现在书从中间断成了两截，最后的几十页也都掉得差不多了，所以需要买本新的而且是带汉语解释的词典，于是看了一下，感觉朗文还不错，排版印刷都比牛津第六版的双解版看着舒服。还有一个收获，从电驴上下到了一个牛津高阶第七版英文原版的电子版，Oxford
Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 7th
edition，这个版本目前中国还没有引进，不过电子光盘版早已经在网上流传了两年，还好，安装都比较顺利，还用了酒精120%这个虚拟光驱的软件，有了这本词典在电脑上，查词方便多了，里面的解释和例句还可以很轻易地复制下来。现在的网络真的是盗版的天下了，白拿白用基本上成了习惯，身在其中也只有享受它的方便了。
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