西安市第一中学2011-2012学年度第一学期高三年级英语试题及答案

about human behavior that are as true to citizens of the 21st century as they were to his readers in the 19th century. Readers have returned to Dickens’s books again and again over the years to see what he has to say about readers’own time.

The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time. A dark story about greed and money, it was the perfect story to illustrate the bad times. No surprise then that it was Dickens Britons turned to, during the economic crisis last year, to make sense of world rapidly falling apart.

Readers of the 19th and early 20th century usually prized Dickens’s earlier novels for their humor and pathos(悲痛). While recognizing the virtues of these books, critics today tend to rank more highly the later works because of their formal coherence and acute perception(洞察力) of the human condition. For as long as Dickens’s novels have something to say to modern audiences, it seems likely that he will remain one of Britain’s best loved writers.

第三部分 写作（共三节，满分55分）

第一节 单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在答题卡指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。

66. We all hope those who are___________(遭受) from this disaster will be safe.

67. I am glad to accept your kind __________（邀请）。

68. We should have a positive __________(态度) towards life.

69. We congratulated him __________(真诚地) on his success.

70. Price and _________(质量) are the two chief considerations for most