首页
登录
职称英语
When Zadie Smith finished her most recent novel, On Beauty, she drank a bott
When Zadie Smith finished her most recent novel, On Beauty, she drank a bott
游客
2023-08-28
86
管理
问题
When Zadie Smith finished her most recent novel, On Beauty, she drank a bottle of wine, lay down among the rotting apples in her garden, and cried. Since then Smith has taught writing at Columbia University in New York, lived in Italy, and, most recently, given birth【C1】______a girl, Katherine. What she hasn’t done is write another novel.
Which doesn’t mean she’s stopped writing.【C2】______. she’s quietly been establishing herself as one of the most【C3】______literary critics of our time. In pieces for The New York Review of Books, she’s championed "difficult" writers such as Kafka and David Foster Wallace. These【C4】______, along with some other previously【C5】______pieces on travel, movies, and her family, are【C6】______in her frustrating new book, Changing My Mind. I mean frustrating【C7】______the highest praise. Smith’s graceful prose【C8】______Forster, Nabokov, and Hurston makes you want to read, or reread, their fiction. But, even【C9】______, you want to read Smith’s. You want to see her put into action the ideas she【C10】______.
Smith has already established her bona fides(真诚,善意)with White Teeth, The Autograph Man, and On Beauty.【C11】______, she insists that she’s a different writer from the 21-year-old who wrote White Teeth. "I don’t【C12】______that writer anymore, and I find her idea of the novel oppressive,【C13】______, useless," she writes about her younger self, and claims that she【C14】______tried to read her first novel, but was "overwhelmed with nausea" after 10 sentences, which she【C15】______to having written it at such a young age.
Smith is slightly elusive(难以捉摸的)on the subject of her next【C16】______of fiction. "I don’t like to write something【C17】______I feel I really must," she said. She has the beginning of a novel she started several years ago, but then she got "a bit【C18】______and never finished. You can be not in the【C19】______for writing fiction," she says. "It’s quite hard to write when your mind is elsewhere. My father died, I moved to Italy—life things got【C20】______the way." [br] 【C14】
选项
A、seldom
B、just
C、once
D、never
答案
C
解析
考查语义逻辑。从后面的描述“读了10句话便吐了”可知,Smith曾试图去读她的第一部小说,选once“曾经”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2964433.html
相关试题推荐
Wemustturntosomerecenthumaninventions__________________(为了完全理解这意味着什么).
Researchcarriedoutinrecentopinionpollsshowsthat______.[br]Thepassage
Researchcarriedoutinrecentopinionpollsshowsthat______.[br]Accordingt
ItwasnotuntillastFriday______(他读完了他妈妈送给他的那本书).thathefinishedreadingth
[originaltext]Inrecentyears,therehasbeenanunusuallylargenumberof
[originaltext]Inrecentyears,therehasbeenanunusuallylargenumberof
[originaltext]Inrecentyears,therehasbeenanunusuallylargenumberof
[originaltext]M:Howisyourtermpapercomingalong?W:Ihavejustfinishedt
Withtherecentrapidadvancesininformationtechnologies,【B1】______researc
Withtherecentrapidadvancesininformationtechnologies,【B1】______researc
随机试题
VisitorstoBritainmayfindthebestplacetosamplelocalcultureisina
Inamaritalrelationship,powerdetermineswhichspousemakesdecisions,wh
A、Adornmentattractsfemalesonthebasisofunconsciousaestheticpreferences,
Peopletodayspenda_____portionoftheirtimeconferringontheproperwaytob
Retrofittinghousestouselessenergys
咳血方与小蓟饮子中均含有的药物是A.山栀子 B.青黛 C.炙甘草 D.生地
用寒远寒,用热远热属于A、因地制宜 B、因人制宜 C、因时制宜 D、未病先
1.文明礼貌是()。 (A)人类社会进步的产物(B)从业人员的基本素
研究表明,近15年来全球平均气温没有显著的增温趋势,这似乎与温室气体排放造成全球
商品流通渠道系统中的垂直渠道系统是指由制造商、批发商和零售商按照纵向一体化的原则
最新回复
(
0
)