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him. He hated the blue and white, the hum and heat of the south; the landscape
seemed to him as hard and as romantic as a cardboard background on the stage,
and the mountain but a wooden screen against a sheet painted blue. Two roads led out ofthe town; one branched off towards the Ambroses’ villa, the other struck into the country, eventually reaching a village on the plain, but many footpaths led off from it, across great dry fields, to scattered farm-houses. Hewet stepped off the road on to one of these, in order to avoid the hardness and heat of the main road, the dust of which was always being raised in small clouds by carts and ramshackle flies which carried parties of festive peasants, or turkeys swelling unevenly like a bundle of air balls beneath a net. A. passionate B. idealistic C. quixotic D. unrealistic [单项选择]A. Because he was of ill health.
B. Because he was in a bad mood. C. Because his wife abandoned him. D. Because his immune system was not strong enough. [填空题]How did he go to London
（）. [单项选择] Steve Courtney wrote historical novels. Not, he was quick to explain, over-colorful love stories of the kind that made so much money for so many women writers, but novels set, and correctly set, in historical periods. Whatever difference he saw in his own books, his readers did not seem to notice it, and his readers were nearly all women. He had studied in university, and he had been a particularly good student, and he had never afterwards let any academic knowledge he had achieved interfere with his writing.
Helen, his wife, who did not have a very high opinion of her husband’’s ability as a novelist, had been careful to say when she married him she was not historically minded.
Above all, Helen was doubtful whether her relationship with Steve would work at all in the village of Stretton, to which they had just moved. It was Steve who had wanted to move to the country, and she had been glad of the change, in principle, whatever doubts she was now having about Stretton as
A. He would have liked to earn as much money as they did. B. He was afraid of being compared unfavourably with them. C. He did not think he could write about the same subjects. D. He had a low opinion of the kind of books they wrote. [单项选择]Why didn’t he go to see the doctor immediately
A. He took medicine. B. He forgot. C. He was out. D. He was busy. [单项选择]
[填空题]He will go home after he finishes his work．
He won’t go home ______ he finishes his work． 我来回答: 提交
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