A.need需要;B.disappearance消失;C.love爱;D.success成功。根据inspireothers可知,此处指作者希望能通过自己的作品激发别人对阅读和写作的喜爱。故选C。 【28题详解】 考查名词词义辨析。句意:我发现写我的故事是最好的方式来表达我的感情和想法在任何时候。A.stories故事;B.dreams梦想;C.suggestions建议;D....
Each story she wrote involved a mystery that had to be solved, but perhaps the greatest mystery is where she went for those 11 days. At the time of the disappearance in 1926, she was 36 years old and married to Archibald Christie. Her mother had died in the beginning of that year and...
My introduction was through the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Christie loved to use the set-up of a group of holiday-makers at a bucolic resort and Sayers seemed particularly committed to ensuring that her professional detective, Lord ...
as the entire book is more or less the above quote. It has no redeeming value other than comedic entertainment. Period. End stop. So if you are pretty serious about your reading materials, read something else. Something by Tolstoy. Or maybe Agatha Christie. Perhaps Audrey Niffenegger. Yeah...
Giving events misleading significance:A flashlight blinking on and off in a window at the same time every night might seem ominous at first. Yet we discover it's two teens way to signal to each other to get on a Skype call to discuss a friend's disappearance ...
8. Make the story unfold in a shorter space of time In a popular TV series like24or a tense thriller by Paula Hawkins or Gillian Flynn, characters are constrained by a time limit. A classic, Agatha Christie -like mystery novel set-up, in which a murder occurs at a country house over...
Christie to sincerely re-value the qualities Miss Marple displays. Today was student presentation day and in addition to some useful discussion of her life and works we did an exercise in crime solving ourselves based on her mysterious 11-day disappearance. Next up in this class: Nancy Drew–...
Christie uses words such as: security (implying its disappearance) suspicion (implying an atmosphere becoming full of it) There is also trailing off, self-interruption -the suspenseful inference of empty space,non-speech. Words (and silences) that imply uncertainty, unease and the potential for ...