Frankenstein is one of the world’s most famous horror stories. It’s about a doctor who creates a new man from the body parts of dead people and brings it to life. But the experiment goes wrong and the monster(怪獸) kills the doctor and many others. The story has been read by millions since it was first published and in the last hundred years it has been made into dozens of movies. Many people are surprised to learn its writer was a 19-year-old woman, called Mary Shelley.
Mary was born into a rich London family in August 1797. She was educated by her parents and when she was 13 she decided to become a writer. In 1812, she met the famous writer Percy Shelley and they soon got married. Sadly for Mary, their first child died soon after birth in Italy. In her diary, Mary wrote about a dream：“I dreamt that my little baby came to life again---that it had only been cold and that we rubbed it before the fire and it lived.”
In 1816, Percy Shelley and 19-year-old Mary visited the poet Lord Byron at his home in Switzerland. Because of the bad weather they stayed indoors reading horror stories. On night, Byron asked everyone to write their own story. Mary thought of her dream and wrote the story of Frankenstein
Frankenstein was published when Mary was 21, and became a huge success. Many people didn’t think a 19-year-old woman could write so well and believed her husband was the real writer.
Although famous, Shelley’s life was full of sadness. Only one of her four children lived and in 1822 her husband died in a swimming accident. Mary was broken-hearted and decided not to marry again. She devoted herself to her child and continued to write until her death in 1851.
小題1:Where was Mary Shelley when she wrote the story Frankenstein ?
A．In EnglandB．In ItalyC．In SwitzerlandD．In France
小題2:In which order do the following take place?
a. Bad weather made everyone stay indoors reading horror stories.
b. The story Frankenstein was first published.
c. Mary wrote about a dream in her diary.
d. Mary met the famous writer Percy Shelley.
e. Movies based on the story of Frankenstein were made.
A．a(chǎn),c,b,e,dB．d,c,a,b,eC．c,a,b,d,eD．b,a,d,c,e
小題3:How old was Mary Shelley when she died?
A．43B．48C．51D．54

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D
文章介紹了Frankenstein的作者M(jìn)ary Shelley.的生平。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第三段可知是當(dāng)他們在瑞士的時候她寫了這本書。故C正確。
小題2:排序題。本題可以使用排除法。根據(jù)文章所述事情發(fā)生的順序可知B正確。
小題3:計算題。根據(jù)第三段可知1816年她19歲，說明她1797出生，根據(jù)文章最后可知她1851年去世，故去世時她54歲。
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