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9.The passage implies that buffalo chips were needed ________.
A.in greater amounts in winter
B.in greater amounts in summer
C.only in summer
D.only in winter
10.Which of the following does the author NOT express surprise at?
A.The children needed competitions to stimulate them.
B.The buffalo chips gave off no smell.
C.Young men took bags of buffalo chips to their girlfriends.
D.Buffalo chips were the answer to the settlers' fuel problem.
Passage 3
Born in 1830 in rural Amherst,Massachusetts,Emily Dickinson spent her entire life in the household of her parents.Between 1858 and 1862,it was later discovered that she wrote like a person possessed(
着魔的
)
，
often producing a poem a day.It was also during this period that her life was transformed into the myth of Amherst.Withdrawing more and more,keeping to her room,sometimes even refusing to see visitors who called,she began to dress only in white
—
a habit that added to her reputation as an eccentric(
古怪的人
).
In their determination to read Dickinson's life in terms of a traditional romance,biographers(
传记作者
)have missed the unique pattern of her life
—
her struggle to create a female life not yet imagined by the culture in which she lived.Dickinson was not the innocent,lovelorn,and emotionally weak girl sentimentalized by the Dickinson myth and popularized by William Luce's 1976 play,
《
The Belle of Amberst
》
.Her decision to shut the door on Amherst society in the 1850's transformed her house into a kind of magical realm in which she was free to engage her poetic genius.Her seclusion(
隔离
) was not the result of a failed love affair,but rather a part of a more general pattern of renunciation(
脱离关系
) through which she,in her quest for self
sovereignty,carried on an argument with the Puritan fathers,attacking with wit and irony cheerless Calvinist doctrine,their patriarchal God and their rigid notions of true womanhood.
11.According to the passage,the period from 1858 to 1862 was for Emily Dickinson a period of great ________.
A.tragedy
B.sociability
C.productivity
D.frivolity
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