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Jane Austen was an English novelist, who spent her life in middle-class soc

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问题     Jane Austen was an English novelist, who spent her life in middle-
class society, which she described intimately and with ironical humour in
her novels, the most famous which are Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield
Park, Emma, and Persuasion. She was the first English writer who gave the
novel their modern characteristics through the treatment of everyday life. 【M1】______
Since Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anon- 【M2】______
ymously. The most emergent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is 【M3】______
courtship and finally marriage. Austen herself never married. Jane Austen
was mostly tutored at home, and irregularly at school, but she accepted a 【M4】______
broader education than many women of her time. She started to write for
family amusement as a child. Her parents were avid reader. Very shy about 【M5】______
her writing, she wrote on small pieces of paper that she slipped under the
desk. In her letters she observed the daily lives of her family and friends 【M6】______
in an intimate and gossipy manner. Austen’s father supported his daugh
ter’s writing aspirations and tried to help her get a publisher. Austen never
married, but her social life was positive and she had suitors and romantic 【M7】______
dreams. Austen well connected with the middling-rich landed gentry that she 【M8】______
portrayed in her novels. Austen was focused on middle-class provincial life 【M9】______
with humor and understanding. She depicted minor landed gentry, country clergy
men and their families, there marriage mainly determined women’s social status. 【M10】______ [br] 【M7】
选项
答案 positive — active
解析 positive和active两个词虽然中文释义都是“积极的”，含义却有所不同。positive往往指(态度)积极，和negative相对；active指活动多的，主动的，和passive相对，文中的意思是奥斯汀交游甚广，非常活跃，所以应该用active。
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