Question

(A) Some things about Emily Dickinson’s life were strange and mysterious(神秘的). She was born in 1830, in a rich and well-known family in Amherst, Massachusetts. She had a brother and a sister. Emily was shy and quiet, but she had friends. She went to parties like other young girls of her age and met young men. But she did not fall in love with any of them and never married.

(B) Dickinson died at the age of 55. Her sister found her poems, and they were finally published. Sadly, Emily Dickinson did not live to enjoy her great success.

(C)For a long time, Emily Dickinson did not want to see her friends. She stayed at home, read, worked in the garden and wrote poems. Emily wrote her poems everywhere. She wrote them on bits of newspapers or anything that was near. Later, she wrote them out carefully. When she was 28, something happened. Emily was very upset. No one knows why. Some people said she loved a married man. Others said she was unhappy because nobody wanted to publish her poems. She kept on writing anyway.

(D) Emily Dickinson was a very famous American poet. She wrote about 2,000 poems, but only four were published in her lifetime. No one wanted to publish her works because it was different from what other poets wrote. After Dickinson died, her poems were finally published. Then she became famous.

(E) As she got older, Emily often wanted to be alone. When someone came to her house, she ran upstairs to hide. For the last 16 years of her life, she never left her home. The curtains were always closed. She dressed only in white. One day Emily became ill, but she did not let the doctor go to her room. He could only see her from the doorway.

请阅读上面A、B、C、D 、E 五段话，然后给五段话排列顺序，使文章通顺，意思连贯。

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Answer

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.E

5.B

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文给我们介绍的是美国著名的诗人Emily Dickens。她一生写了很多诗，但是大多数的诗都是在她死后才出版的。她出生在一个富裕的家庭，开始的时候有很多朋友，但是不知道什么原因，她变得很自闭，不与外人接触，在55岁的时候就去世了。

1.这篇短文给我们介绍的是Emily Dickens，她是美国一个著名的诗人。因此首先我们先对Emily和她的诗做一个整体的介绍。由此可知，D应该是短文的第一段，它的第一句话就点明了这篇短文要介绍的人物Emily Dickens。

2.根据第一段的内容可知，Emily是美国的一个著名的诗人，她的诗到她死后才大量的出版。从这一段开始作者就来讲述Emily的生活，应该从她出生时起，故A中She was born in 1830, in a rich and well-known family in Amherst, Massachusetts可知，第二段应该是A。

3.根据上文的意思可知，Emily有很多的朋友，她经常和朋友们在一起聚会。但是后来有一段时间，她突然不想见到她的朋友了，还讲到了可能的原因。故选C。

4.根据这一段的开头As she got older可知，这一段讲述的是Emily老一点的时候的事情，她变得更加自闭，不与任何人接触，即使生病了，也不让医生进入她的房间。故选E。

5.这是短文的最后一段，根据B选项中Emily died at the age of 55可知，这一段中提到了Emily的死，因此它应该是短文的结束。故选B。

考点：人物类短文阅读。