2022年自考《综合英语（一）》练习试题7.6

21.The story of Edwin Drood was ______.

A.written after Dickens’s other novels

B.written sometime before 1914

C.set near London

D.All of the above

22.The mystery remains a mystery because ______.

A.Cloisterham Cathedral doesn’t exist

B.the suspect died before being tried

C.the trial was inconclusive

D.Dickens never finished the story

23.The second paragraph of this article serves to ______.

A.raise some unanswered questions about the novel

B.introduce some of the novel’s central characters

C.suggest some supposed motives for the crime

D.Both A and B

24.The article implies that we don’t even know for sure that ______.

A.Dickens wrote the novel

B.Jasperwas Drood’s uncle

C.Drood was murdered

D.Chesterton was a writer

25.None of the proposed solutions to the mystery is really satisfactory because ______.

A.none of them explains Datchery’s identity

B.the story is unlike Dickens’s other mysteries

C.no one knows what Dickens intended

D.Both B and C