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THE BRONTE FAMILY Yorkshire in England was the setting for two great novels of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister，Anne，was also a gifted novelist，and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters'. Their father was Patrick Bronte，born in Ireland. He moved with his wife，Maria Bronte，and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820.Soon after，Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died，leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy. Charlotte was born in 1816.Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820.Their brother Branwell was born in 1817.Left to themselves，the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely self－educated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes. As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte，as a young girl，alone wrote 22 books，each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore，they turned to writing for income. By 1847，Charlotte had written The Professor；Emily，Wuthering Heights；and Anne，Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher，but there was no interest shown in Charlotte's book.(It was not published until 1859.) However，one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her work. Jane Eyre was already started，and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once；thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847. Jane Eyre was immediately successful；the_other_two，however，did not do so well. People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild，too animal－like. But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book and Anne died in 1849. Charlotte published Shirley in 1849，and Villette in 1853.In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later，she died of tuberculosis(肺結(jié)核) as her sisters had. 1．What did the Bronte sisters want to do for Branwell? A．Help him write stories.　　　　　 B．Help him get trained in art. C．Teach him how to draw well.　　　 D．Teach him how to educate himself. 2．We know from the text that ______. A．Jane Eyre was published in 1847 B．Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all C．the Bronte sisters received good education D．Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writings 3．Which of the following was published after the death of its writer? A．Shirley　　 B. Villette　 C．Agnes Grey　 D．The Professor 4．The underlined words “the other two”，in the 5th paragraph refer to ______. A．Shirley and Villette　　　　　　　　 B. The Professor and Agnes Grey C．Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights　　 D．The Professor and Wuthering Heights 5．What do we know about the Bronte sisters from the text? A．Their novels interested few publishers. B．None of them had more than two books published. C．None of them lived longer than 40 years old. D．Emily was the least successful of the three.

 

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1. 文章第三段倒數(shù)第二句“The girls were determined to earn money for his art education.”表明，Bronte姐妹想資助Branwell學(xué)習(xí)美術(shù)。 2．文章第四段最后兩句話表明，姐妹三個(gè)在1847年各出了一本書，而Jane Eyre就是其中之一。因此正確答案為A項(xiàng)。 3．從文章中可知，Charlotte死于1855年，而她的著作The Professor 是在1859年出版的。因此正確答案應(yīng)為D項(xiàng)。 4．根據(jù)上文中敘述，姐妹三個(gè)每人出版了一本書，以及第五段中“Jane Eyre was immediately successful”可以推斷出 the other two 指的是Agnes Grey和Wuthering Heights。 5．Charlotte出生于1816年，死于1855年；Emily生于1818年，死于“a short while after the publication of the book”；Anne生于1820年，死于1849年。計(jì)算可知，姐妹三個(gè)都沒有活過40歲。