[沖刺中考]英語(yǔ)閱讀與填空：5-Monday 作家 232詞

5-Monday 作家 232詞

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Agatha Christie was born on September 15th，1890．She didn't go to school because her mother wanted to teach her at home．She studied the piano and singing in Paris．

She got married in 1914 to a pilot and they had one daughter．During the First World War，when she was working as a nurse，she began to write detective novels．In the hospital，she learned a lot about drugs，and she used these in her novels．

She wrote her first novel in 1920．The hero was a detective，Hercules Poirot．The book soon became a best-seller and made her famous．

In 1928，Agatha Christie was lost．The police found her two weeks later．She didn't know anything．This was front-page news in all the newspapers in Britain，and even today nobody knows what happened to her during those two weeks．

In 1929，Agatha Christie went on holiday to the Middle East．She came home to England in 1930．

After that，she travelled with her husband to the Middle East many times，and a lot of her later stories took place there，for example，Murder on the Nile ．She also wrote the detective Miss Marple，and began to write plays．One of them，The Mousetrap ，opened at a theatre in the West End of London in 1952，and is still on today．

During her life she wrote nearly eighty detective stories．She also wrote other novels under the pen name of Mary Westmacott．She died in January 1976 at the age of eighty-six．

Agatha Christie's detective novels are famous for their surprise endings．

生詞

detective　n． 偵探：private detective私家偵探/store detective被商店雇用監(jiān)視顧客防止其偷東西的人

front-page　adj． （新聞因重要等）登上頭版的：front-page story/news/article頭版報(bào)道/新聞/文章

drug　n． 藥物，毒品：Some drugs can only be obtained with a prescription from a doctor．有些藥物沒(méi)有醫(yī)生處方是買(mǎi)不到的。

Nile　n． 尼羅河（流經(jīng)非洲的世界最長(zhǎng)的河流之一）

mousetrap　n． 捕鼠器，捕鼠夾

1．Christie began to write detective novels during World War Ⅰ．

2．The detective in Christie's first novel is Marple．

3．Nobody knows why Christie was lost for two weeks in 1928．

4．Murder on the Nile was written by Poirot．

5．Mary Westmacott is Christie herself．

6．Her detective novels interested so many readers for their sad endings．

參考譯文

阿加莎·克里斯蒂生于1890年9月15日。她沒(méi)有上過(guò)學(xué)，因?yàn)樗赣H想在家里教她。她在巴黎學(xué)過(guò)彈鋼琴和唱歌。

1914年，她嫁給了一名飛行員，他們有一個(gè)女兒。第一次世界大戰(zhàn)期間，她從事的職業(yè)是護(hù)士，她就是從那時(shí)起開(kāi)始寫(xiě)偵探小說(shuō)的。在醫(yī)院的時(shí)候，她學(xué)到了許多關(guān)于藥品的知識(shí)，她還把這些知識(shí)用在小說(shuō)里。

1920年，她創(chuàng)作了第一部小說(shuō)。小說(shuō)的主人公是一位偵探，他叫赫爾克里·波洛。這本書(shū)很快成了暢銷(xiāo)書(shū)，她出名了。

1928年，阿加莎·克里斯蒂一度失蹤。警方兩周后找到了她。她不記得發(fā)生了什么。這件事成了倫敦所有報(bào)紙的頭版新聞，直至現(xiàn)在都沒(méi)有人知道這兩周發(fā)生了什么。

1929年，阿加莎·克里斯蒂去中東度假。1930年返回英國(guó)。

此后，她和丈夫多次游歷中東，她后來(lái)的許多故事場(chǎng)景都選在那里，比如《尼羅河上的慘案》。她還寫(xiě)了另一位偵探馬普爾小姐，她還開(kāi)始寫(xiě)話劇。其中的《捕鼠器》于1952年在倫敦西區(qū)的一家劇院公演，至今仍在上演。

她一生共寫(xiě)了近80部偵探小說(shuō)。她還以瑪麗·韋斯特瑪考特的筆名寫(xiě)了另外幾部小說(shuō)。她于1976年1月去世，享年86歲。

阿加莎·克里斯蒂的偵探小說(shuō)以其出人意料的結(jié)尾而著稱(chēng)。

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