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  “I don't want to write a story about girls!I don't know anything about girls,”Louisa May Alcott told her publisher, Mr.Niles.But she was desperate for money.She seemed to be the only one in her family who could make any money.Niles had asked her to write about something she knew, instead of the romantic adventure stories she had been writing.“So I plod away,”Alcott wrote,“though I don't enjoy this sort of thing.”It was 1867, and the horrible Civil War was over.Now Alcott could turn her energy to making money.

  Alcott wrote a simple story of life in her family, their pillow fights on Saturday nights and the amateur(業(yè)余的)plays they performed.“Our experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.”(“Good joke,”she wrote years later.)Her book described her days growing up with four sisters in a family that had no money.She sketched(勾畫)a loving mother who took time to be interested in each child, and she told of the death of a beloved sister.She portrayed her family and friends in her book Little Women.Finally, in July of 1868, she finished writing.With a sigh and a headache, she sent off all 102 handwritten pages of her book.

  Niles thought the book was dull, and so did Alcott.But when she received her copies of the book, Alcott thought it seemed better than expected.“Not a bit sensational,”she wrote,“but simple and true.We really lived most of it.”Niles asked some girls to read Little Women, and they loved it.

  In three months, all the copies of Little Women had been sold.It was already time to print more books!Niles thought he could sell three or four hundred more copies.“An honest publisher and a lucky author made a dull book into a golden egg for an ugly duckling,”Alcott wrote in 1885.Later, with a great sigh of relief, she was able to write,“Paid off all the debts!Now I feel that I could die in peace.If my head holds out, I'll do all I once hoped to do.”

(1)

Which of the following would be used to describe Alcott's book?

[  ]

A.

magic

B.

boring

C.

funny

D.

skillful

(2)

In which order did the following happen?

a.Alcott began writing Little Women

b.Niles asked Alcott to write about girls

c.Alcott wrote romantic adventure stories

d.Alcott performed plays with her sisters

e.Niles was not pleased with Alcott's work.

[  ]

A.

a, b, e, d, c

B.

d, c, a, b, e

C.

c, b, e, d, a

D.

d, c, e, b, a

(3)

When she handed her first writing in, Niles was ________.

[  ]

A.

unsatisfied with the work

B.

happy about her work

C.

sure of her success

D.

unpleased with the publisher

(4)

We learn from the story that, after Little Women was sold out, ________.

[  ]

A.

Alcott wrote another book

B.

some girls started to read the book

C.

Niles published hundreds of books girls liked

D.

Alcott paid off all her bills

答案:1.C;2.D;3.A;4.D;
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