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问题详情：

Charles Dickens is often thought of as one of England's greatest 133． ( writer )，yet his language is old-fashioned and his story plots often improbable. How then to explain Dickens's enduring (持久的) 134． (popular)?

His stories, though often overlong by today's standard，are well written moral (道德的)tales. They are filled with 135． (color) characters.

But what makes his books stand out from other English writers is his insight 136． human nature. Dickens, like Shakespeare, tells us truths about human behaviour that 137．  (be) as true to citizens of the 21st century as they were to his readers in the 19th century.

Readers 138． ( return ) to Dickens’s books again and again over the years 139． ( see ) what he has to say about readers’ own time. No surprise then that 140． was Dickens that Britons turned to, during the economic crisis last year, to make sense of a world 141． (rapid) falling apart.

The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama 142．introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time. It’s a dark story about greed and money which is the perfect story to explain the bad times.

As long as Dickens’s novels have something to say to modern audiences, it seems likely that he will remain one of Britain’s best loved writers.

【回答】

133．writers

134．popularity

135．colorful

136．into

137．are

138．have returned

139．to see

140．it

141．rapidly

142．that/which

【分析】

本文是一篇说明文，介绍了狄更斯的作品为什么现在还受欢迎。

133．考查名词复数。"one of +形容词的最高级+名词复数"结构表示"最……之一"，为固定用法。故填writers。

134．考查名词。空处作动词explain的宾语，且空前有形容词修饰，故用名词形式。故填popularity。

135．考查形容词。空处作定语修饰characters,故用形容词colorful表示"有趣的"。故填colorful。

136．考查介词。insight当"（尤指对复杂情况、看法的）顿悟，猛醒"讲时,后常与into搭配。故填into。

137．考查主谓一致。分析句子结构可知，that引导定语从句，在从句中作主语，从句谓语动词与先行词truths保持时态，人称和数一致；根据上文的tells可知，用一般现在时，故填are。

138．考查时态。根据时间状语over the years可知，本句应用现在完成时。故填have returned。

139．考查非谓语动词。分析句子结构可知，空处作目的状语，指人们一遍遍看狄更斯作品的目的，故用动词不定式。故填to see。

140．考查强调句型。分析句子结构可知，去掉强调结构后，Britons turned to Dickens是完整的句子，故此句是强调句型，故填it。

141．考查副词。分析句子结构可知，空处修饰falling apart,故用副词作状语，故填rapidly。

142．考查定语从句。"10 introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time"为定语从句，修饰 drama,空处是关系词且在从句中作主语,故用关系代词that/which。故填which/that。

【点睛】

语法填空考查动词时，做谓语动词应考虑时态，语态，主谓一致及是否应用谓语动词形式。如果动词作非谓语，则需考虑动词作主语，宾语，应由不定式或动名词担任；如果动词作状语或定语，需考虑被动关系，再确定是现在分词还是过去分词。例如小题6，分析句子可知，return是谓语动词，根据时间状语over the years可知，本句应用现在完成时。故填have returned。小题7，see是非谓语动词，做目的状语用不定式形式，故填to see。

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