单选题 D．H. Lawrence was the fourth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall, and their first to have been born in Eastwood. Ever since their marriage in 1875, the couple had been on the move. Arthur's job as a miner had taken them where the best-paid work had been during the boom years of the 1870s, and they had lived in a succession of small and recently built grimy colliery villages all over Nottinghamshire. But when they moved to Eastwood in 1883, it was to a place where they would remain for the rest of their lives;the move seems to have marked a watershed in their early history.
For one thing, they were settling down. Arthur Lawrence would work at Brinsley colliery until he retired in 1909. For another, they now had three small children and Lydia may have wanted to give them the kind of continuity in schooling they had never previously had. It was also the case that, when they came to Eastwood, they took a house with a shop window, and Lydia ran a small clothes shop. presumably to supplement their income, but also perhaps because she felt she could do it in addition to raising their children. It seems possible that, getting on badly with her husband as she did, she imagined that further children were out of the question. Taking on the shop may have marked her own bid for independence.
Arthur's parents lived less than a mile away, down in Brinsley, while his youngest brother Waiter lived only 100 yards away from them in another company house, in Princes Street. When the family moved to Eastwood, Arthur Lawrence was coming back to his own family's center: one of the reasons, for sure, why they stayed there.
Lydia Lawrence probably felt, on the other hand, more as if she were digging in for a siege. Eastwood may have been home to Arthur Lawrence, but to Lydia it was just another grimy colliery village which she never liked very much and where she never felt either much at home or properly accepted. Her Kent accent doubtless made Midlands people feel that she put on airs.
单选题 This passage is mainly about the introduction of ______.
  • A.D.H. Lawrence
  • B.D. H. Lawrence's parents
  • C.D. H. Lawrence's residence
  • D.D. H. Lawrence's family background and education
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查考生对文章主要内容的理解。综观全文，主要讲了Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall的生活，他们开始一直不停搬迁，后来又为何在Eastwood定居。而不是讲他们最小的孩子D. H. Lawrence，也不是讲他们的住所或整个家庭的背景。因此B项为正确答案。
单选题 Which of the following is NOT the reason for D. H. Lawrence's family settling down in Eastwood? ______.
  • A.Children in the family needed consistent education.
  • B.D．H. Lawrence's father could be near to his family members.
  • C.D. H. Lawrence's mother could seek for her independence.
  • D.D. H. Lawrence could accumulate enough materials to write about in his novels.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有D项不是原因。根据文章第二段的第二句"For another,they now had three small children and Lydia may have wanted to give them the kind of continuity in schooling they had never previously had"可知，A项是一个原因。根据文章第三段最后一句"When the family moved to Eastwood,Arthur Lawrence was coming back to his own family's center：one of the reasons,for sure,why they stayed there"可知，B项是一个原因。根据文章第二段最后一句"Taking on the shop may have marked her own bid for independence"可知，C项是一个原因。
单选题 Which of the following might be an image of D. H. Lawrence's mother in other people's mind?______.
  • A.A mother who was quite amiable.
  • B.A wife who was considerate.
  • C.An arrogant woman.
  • D.A faithful wife.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有C项An arrogant woman(一个傲慢的女人)正确。这从文章最后一段的最后一句"Her Kent accent doubtless made Midlands people feel that she put on airs"可以推出，即南于Lydia有口音，所以当地人认为她装腔作势。put on airs的意思是“装腔作势”。
单选题 The family had been on the move, because ______.
  • A.they had to stay with the father who had to go everywhere to find a job in depression
  • B.the father could find better-paid jobs in the prosperity of economy
  • C.the father wanted to be near with his own home
  • D.the mother always wanted to change the location of their house
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有B正确。这从文中第一段第二句话"Arthur's job as a miner had taken them where the best-paid work had been during the boom years of the 1870s"可以推出，即在19世纪70年代的经济繁荣时期，Arthur不停地换地方工作是因为他在不停地寻找待遇更好的地方工作，由于他换地方工作，整个家庭也就跟着他不停搬迁。
单选题 Which of the following statement is NOT true?______.
  • A.The relationship between D. H. Lawrence's parents may not be so good.
  • B.D. H. Lawrence's mother was a woman of strong will.
  • C.D. H. Lawrence's mother did not like her home at Eastwood.
  • D.D. H. Lawrence was the first child in the family.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有D项不正确。这从文中第一段的第一句"D. H. Lawrence was the fourth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall,and their first to have been born in Eastwood"可以推出，D. H. Lawrence显然是这个家庭的第四个孩子。