1、Dickens, like some of his fictional characters, was forced to serve as a child labor in a shoe “blacking factory” to eke out a living at a very young age
2、Dickens' first novel( ) brought him instant success at the age of twenty-five.
A、Oliver Twist
B、The Pickwick Papers
C、David Copperfield
D、A Tale of Two Cities
3、Dickens harbors a strong sense of localism rooted in the modes of existence and landscape of the countryside.
4、The image of London offered by Dickens in Oliver Twist is generally charming and attractive.
5、In order to highlight Oliver’s first encounter with the shockingly filthy London underworld, Dickens portrays London with a series of unpleasant natural elements including ( ).
A、stones covered with thick mud
B、rain that falls sluggishly down
C、black mist
D、“everything felt cold and clammy to the touch”
6、The streets in Oliver Twist are marked by ( ).
A、cleaness
B、darkness
C、narrowness
D、muddiness
7、Dickens' depiction of those ruinous slums in London can find expression in (), the most notorious gutter alongside The Thames.
A、Jacob’s Island
B、Regent's Park
C、the “Folly Ditch”
D、Tottenham Court Road
8、The fall of those slum houses has been embedded by Dickens with two layers of implications, ( ).
A、the precarious state of existence of those disenfranchised groups
B、the extremely dire financial conditions
C、the rocketing development of capitalism
D、the fall of the hypocritical capitalist humanism
9、Dickens’depiction of the slums, those dilapidated houses in particular, pushes to the climax his critique of the government’s indifference towards the poor and, more generally, its non-performance in tackling the problem of poverty.
10、Dickens witnessed the rise of London as one of the largest metropolises in the European continent because it ( ).
A、constructed railways
B、built intricate sewer and street systems
C、erected all sorts of facilities
D、attained great achievements of industrialization and urbanization
