Module 3 课时达标训练(十二)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
Jane Austen (1775－1817), one of England's most famous novelists, was never publicly recognised as a writer during her lifetime. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire and the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. She was mainly educated at home, benefiting from her father's library. Her closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra. Though Austen lived a quiet life, she had unusual access to the greater world, mainly through her brothers, Francis and Charles, officers in the Royal Navy, who served on ships around the world and saw action in the Napoleonic Wars.
As a child Austen began writing comic stories, now referred to as the juvenilia (少年时代作品)．Her first mature work, written when she was about 19, was a novella (中篇小说), Lady Susan, written in epistolary (书信
