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Review
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
violation This novel, Diane Setterfield’s first, could best be described as a mystery story. Margaret Lee, a young biographer (传记作家), is invited by Vida Winter, a novelist of considerable fame, (1)_____ (write) her biography, which ts Margaret on a voyage of discovery, not only about Vida’s life, but about her own life too.
Vida has led a cretive life, during (2)_____ she has created many outlandish life histories for herlf, all of them purely fantasy. It is only when she comes to the end of her life (3)_____ she feels able to expo the crets of her past. Margaret travels to Vida’s home in Yorkshire, living there with Vida while she writes the biography. As a biographer, Margaret deals in fact not fiction, so as Vida tells her story, Margaret tries by herlf to establish the truth. It is (4)_____ the coming together of the two accounts that the reader
gradually discovers how the famous author has kept the family crets and made a success of her life following (5)_____ can only be described as a very disturbed childhood.my favourite food
Vida’s tale is one of gothic (哥特式的) strangeness (6)_____ (feature) the Angelfield family, headed by the beautiful but unstable Isabelle. Her twin daughters, who weird behavior brings trouble to tho around them, (7)_____ (call) Adeline and Emmeline. It soon becomes apparent from the twins’ behavior that (8)_____ is capable of leading a normal life, and when the hou they live in is deliberately t on fire one night, it ems at first that both the girls have been killed in the fire.
As Margaret gradually discovers the truth about Vida, it becomes apparent that none of the people (9)_____ (involve) with the twins, including the houkeeper and the gardener, escaped safe and sound, so the story is to a large extent one of tragedy. But by the end of the novel, all is resolved and even the smallest of details in Vida’s story has its place. Meanwhile, there is a hint (10)_____ Margaret herlf is about to find a happy ending.
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Passage 2
The Most Frightening Day of My Life
Several years ago, I was spending Christmas in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. My brother José was working there and he couldn’t get any time off (1)_____ (come) home, so I spent the holiday with him. We decided to go up Mount Teide, a volcano in the centre of the island, and officially the cond (2)_____ (large) mountain in Europe. This was the last day of my visit, so we hired a little car for the day—I couldn’t drive, but my brother (3)_____.
José and I t off in brilliant sunshine, but it got much colder and by the time we reached the crater (火山口) of Mount Teide it was snowing. All the restaurants, hotels and gas stations at the top of the volcano (4)_____ (clo), and we had almost run out of petr
ol. I started getting really worried (5)_____ I had to catch the plane home that evening, and if I didn’t, I would have to pay for a new ticket. So José decided to do something dangerous—he switched off the engine of the car and freewheeled down the other side of the mountain.
He did this for veral kilometres, round hairpin bends on dangerous, icy roads. Though (6)_____ (scare) to death, I didn’t tell him to stop for some reason.
Then the worst thing happened: the car slipped on the road and the two front wheels went over the edge. We were very lucky that the rest of the car didn’t go over. We sat in the car, not (7)_____ (dare) to move. A car came round the corner and out (8)_____ (jump) three enormous men. (9)_____ saying a word, the three men surrounded the car and literally lifted it back on the road. My brother and I got out to thank them, but the three men just repeated ‘Norway’ veral times—we assumed that that was (10)_____ they came from—then got back into their car and drove off. We were so relieved we could have kisd them! We got back into our car and continued down the side of the mountain. I have never felt so happy in my life as we reached the town at the bottom.
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Passage3
Without Hesitation
On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to enjoy walking the streets of New York, a city she (1)_____ (move) to nine months earlier from London to attend journalism school. “When the weather is good, it’s very hard to find a reason (2)_____ (be) dissatisfied with the city,” she said.
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At the City Hall station, she ttled onto a bench. It was just after Only a few people were at the station. A man leaned against a pillar (柱), the way anyone might, (3)_____ (wait) for the train. The stillness was interrupted by an announcement that the next train was two stations away. Then Tulic saw the man at the pillar collapsing forward onto the tracks.
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