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III. Contextual Blank-filling(10%)One of the greatest poets America has ever produced, Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 41. child of a conservative Christian family, she had a quiet, uneventful childhood. Though her early scholastic career was successful, she attended college for only one year 42. returning home in 1848 and living a life without friends and social activities.Accepting things as most other people saw them was 43. really her style. Rather than live up to the expectations of nineteenth-century New England society, she chose artistic honesty over fame, shutting herself up in her childhood home and writing poetry in a bold new 44. until the day she died.Cultivating the image of an eccentric recluse, Dickinson began dressing all 45. white, seldom left her family’s home, and was picky about the limited 46. she kept. As time went on, her social life was kept up increasingly through letters and less through personal contact.It 47. Emily Dickinson longer to gain widespread recognition than most other major American writers. Only eight of her 1,775 poems were published 48. her lifetime, appearing sporadically in newspapers and journals from 1850 to 1878. It was not until 1955 that all of her poems were published together in one volume. (RM 7-2)In a single year, 1862, Dickinson wrote a remarkable total of 366 poems, apparently the 49. of a failed romantic relationship. Her later years were spent mourning the deaths of her parents and a number of close friends, 50. marked the beginning of her poetic obsession with themes of mortality. Dickinson herself died in 1886, leaving behind a body of work that reveals one of the most brilliant and sensitive poetic imaginations the world has ever known.
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答案:A
難度:非常困難0
統計:A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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