usband, then marry again. chris has seemed so convincing a figure to somefemale readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man.
but it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about chris. it is truly a novel of a place and its people. its opening section tells of kin addie’s long history, in a language that imitates the place's changing, patterns of speech and writing.
the story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. it is told from chris' point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where everybody knows everybody else's business and nothing is ever forgotten.
sunset song has a social theme too. it is concerned with what grassic gibbon
perceives as the destruction of traditional scottish rural life first by modernization and then by world war i. gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war. despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number of them to their deaths. in particular, it takes away chris' husband, evan avondale. the war finally kills evan, but not in the way his widow is told. in fact, the germans aren't responsible for his death, but his own side. he is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle.
if the novel is about the end of one way of life, it also looks ahead. it is a "sunset song" but is concerned too with the new kin addie, indeed of the new european world. grassic gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.
36. what is sunset song mainly about?
a.the first world war.
b.the beauty of the sunset.
c.the new european world.
d.the lives of rural scottish farmers
37. which statement is not true of chris?
a.she is the heroine of sunset song
b.she had a miserable childhood.
c.she is the creation of a man.
d.she married only once.
38. what is the opening section of the novel mainly concerned with?
a.the climate of kinraddie.
b.the history of kinraddie.(www．。com)
c.the geography of kinraddie.
d.the language spoken in kinraddie.
39. who killed chris' husband, ewan?
a.his own troops.
b.the french army.
c.the germans.
d.the russian soldiers.
40. the word "sunset" in the title of this novel most probably means
a. the end of the heroine's life.
b.the end of the story.
c. the end of the traditional way of life.
d. the end of the day.
第三篇centers of the great european cities
the centers of the great cities of europe are meeting places by tradition．people gather there to drink coffee and chat late into the night．a mixture of locals and tourists make for an exciting，metropolitan(大都市的)atmosphere．
squares，plazas(广场)and arcades(拱廊)form the heart of europe’s cities．
venice、in italy has the piazza san marco—a beautiful square surrounded by shops， churches，restaurants and cafes。in barcelona，spain，la becquerel is a lively market with hundreds of stalls
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