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Margaret Mitchell, the author of the enormously popular novel Gone With the
Margaret Mitchell, the author of the enormously popular novel Gone With the
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Margaret Mitchell, the author of the enormously popular novel Gone With the Wind, died in 1949 at the age of forty-nine. She was killed by a reckless driver whose own excuse for his carelessness was "everybody does it".
"Peggy" Mitchell wrote her only book in 1936. It【S1】______a Pulitzer Prize and the motion picture adaptation won the Academy Award for best picture, in 1939.
In the summer of 1949, Margaret Mitchell had been considering beginning【S2】______again. Before she could begin another work, however, she was killed while crossing a street in her hometown of Atlama, Georgia. She and her husband were【S3】______their way to see the film A Canterbury Tale. As they were crossing file avenue to the theater, a car【S4】______by twenty-nine-year-old, off-duty taxi driver named Hugh D. Gravitt tore around the corner. It braked, skidded and veered(改变方向) as the driver attempted to avoid the threatening disaster. But Miss Mitchell, frightened, pulled away from her husband, and ran in the direction the car had veered. She was hit and fell ’unconscious. She died of a skull fracture after five days in critical condition.
The driver unconscious was sentenced to eighteen months【S5】______prison for involuntary manslaughter (过失杀人). He had already been arrested twenty-eight times in the previous ten years for reckless driving. Eight of the arrests had resulted in convictions(定罪). Yet, on the day after his conviction【S6】______ the manslaughter of Margaret Mitchell, and the day【S7】______he was to begin【S8】______his sentence, he and his wife【S9】______when he crashed【S10】______a track.
A—serving B—won C—driven D—into
E—were injured F—for G—on H—in
I—to write J—after K—by L—bring
M—because N—before [br] 【S8】
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A
解析
serve one’s sentence作“.服刑”解,如:He served two years of his three-year sentence and then was released for good behavior.他被判刑三年,服刑两后,因有悔改表现,提前获释。
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