[冲刺中考]英语阅读与填空：5-Monday 作家 232词

5-Monday 作家 232词

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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．

生词

detective　n． 侦探：private detective私家侦探/store detective被商店雇用监视顾客防止其偷东西的人

front-page　adj． （新闻因重要等）登上头版的：front-page story/news/article头版报道/新闻/文章

drug　n． 药物，毒品：Some drugs can only be obtained with a prescription from a doctor．有些药物没有医生处方是买不到的。

Nile　n． 尼罗河（流经非洲的世界最长的河流之一）

mousetrap　n． 捕鼠器，捕鼠夹

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．

参考译文

阿加莎·克里斯蒂生于1890年9月15日。她没有上过学，因为她母亲想在家里教她。她在巴黎学过弹钢琴和唱歌。

1914年，她嫁给了一名飞行员，他们有一个女儿。第一次世界大战期间，她从事的职业是护士，她就是从那时起开始写侦探小说的。在医院的时候，她学到了许多关于药品的知识，她还把这些知识用在小说里。

1920年，她创作了第一部小说。小说的主人公是一位侦探，他叫赫尔克里·波洛。这本书很快成了畅销书，她出名了。

1928年，阿加莎·克里斯蒂一度失踪。警方两周后找到了她。她不记得发生了什么。这件事成了伦敦所有报纸的头版新闻，直至现在都没有人知道这两周发生了什么。

1929年，阿加莎·克里斯蒂去中东度假。1930年返回英国。

此后，她和丈夫多次游历中东，她后来的许多故事场景都选在那里，比如《尼罗河上的惨案》。她还写了另一位侦探马普尔小姐，她还开始写话剧。其中的《捕鼠器》于1952年在伦敦西区的一家剧院公演，至今仍在上演。

她一生共写了近80部侦探小说。她还以玛丽·韦斯特玛考特的笔名写了另外几部小说。她于1976年1月去世，享年86岁。

阿加莎·克里斯蒂的侦探小说以其出人意料的结尾而著称。

参考答案

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