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　　A tale of Two cities is a novel  1 the English author Charles Dickens. It tells us  2 a tale of action of adventure  3 in London and Paris at the time of French Revolution. So the two cities in the title  4 London and Paris.

　　The story  5 the fates of a small group of characters who are drawn into the  6 of the Revolution. One of the main character is Dr. Manette,  7 a French doctor. After  8 prison for 18 years, he settles in London with his beautiful daughter Lucie. She  9 Charles Darney, a noble heir(后裔) of Evre Monde family of French. Then  10 him. several years  11 , when Darney returns to Paris, he was caught by the revolutionaries. At this time there is  12 young man named Sydney Carton, an English lawyer, who loves Lucie  13 that he is ready to be sentenced to death instead of Darney, who is very much like Darnely only  14 can Darney escapes death shortly before his execution (死刑). Around this central plot (主要情节) is the  15 of revolutionary Pairs.

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　　A tale of Two cities is a novel  1 the English author Charles Dickens. It tells us  2 a tale of action of adventure  3 in London and Paris at the time of French Revolution. So the two cities in the title  4 London and Paris.

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt and when he was twelve, he had to go and work in a factory for making boot polish. The only formal education he received was a two-year schooling at a school for poor children. In fact, he had to teach himself all he knew. He worked for a time as junior clerk in a lawyer's office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later in parliament, for London newspapers. His career as a writer of fiction began in 1833 with short stories and essays in periodicals, and in 1837 his comic novel The Pickwick Papers made him the most popular author at his time in England.

　　He was a great observer of people and their places because he was attracted by life and conditions in mid-nineteenth century London. He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a realistic picture of all classes of England society, showing deep sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, exposing the injustice and inhumanity（不人道） of the bourgeoisie（布尔乔亚阶级）.

　　Many of his novels like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and so on drew attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago.

　　Dickens criticized capitalist society from the point of view of bourgeois humanism. He wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor, but failed to find any effective means to achieve that end.

1.Dickens only received a little formal education because______.

A．he wanted to teach himself

B．he wanted to work and made a lot of money

C．he was too poor to afford any more formal education

D．he wanted some working experiences to be a novelist

2.According to Dickens, the society at his time in England was________.

A．just

B．poor

C．comfortable

D．unsatisfying

3.Which of the following novel made Dickens the most popular writer at his time in England?

A．Oliver Twist	B．The Pickwick Papers
C．A Tale of Two Cities	D．Great Expectations

4.According to the passage, which of the following about Dickens is true?

A．He didn't go to school at all.

B．He only wrote about poor people and showed deep sympathy for them.

C．He began to write fictions when he was 21 years old.

D．He found some effective ways to improve the living conditions of the poor.

5.It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A．Dickens had a miserable childhood

B．Dickens tried many different jobs before he became a professional writer

C．Dickens wrote many novels but only some of them are popular

D．Dickens criticized capitalist society and helped to improve the living conditions of the poor

 

Those who know _______ it was that wrote A Tale of Two Cities, raise your hands.

A. why　B. when　?

C. how D. who?