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第二套试题 Section Ⅱ prehension Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B,C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points) Text 1 The author of some forty novels, a number of plays, volumes of verse, historical, critical and autobiographical works, an editor and translator, Jack Lindsay is clearly an extraordinarily prolific writer —a fact which can easily obscure his very real distin ction in some of the areas into which he has ventured. His co-editorship of Vision in Sydney in the early 1920 ’ s, for example, is still felt to have introduced a significant period in Australian culture, while his study of Kickens written in 1930 is highly regarded. But of all his work it is probably the novel to which he has made his most significant contribution. Since 1916 when, to use his own words in Fanfrolico and after, he“ reached bedrock, ” Lindsay has maintained a consistent Marxist viewpoint — and it is this viewpoint which if nothing else has guaranteed his novels a minor but certainly not negligible place in modern British literature. Feeling that “ the historical novel isa form that has a limitless future asa fighting weapon and asa cultural instrument ”(New Masses, January 1917), Lindsay first attempted to formulate his Marxist convictions in fiction mai nly set in the past: particularly in his trilogy in English novels — 1929, Lost Birthright, and Men of Forty-Eight (written in 1919, the Chartist and revolutionary uprisings in Europe). Basically these works set out, with most ess in the first volume, to vivify the historical traditions behind English Socialism and attempted to demonstrate that it stood, in Lindsay ’s words, for the “ pletion of the national destiny. ” Although the war years saw the virtual disintegration of the left-wing writing movement of the 1910 ’ s, Lindsay himself carried on: delving into contemporary affairs in We Shall Return and Beyond Terror, novels in which the epithets former