Question

DIRECTIONS: Read the article. Select the correction definition for each underlined word, and

write its letter on the line.

Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in South Wales to Norwegian parents. Imaginative, restless,

and have a voracious ____ appetite for adventure, he was not a great student. His mother offered

to pay for him to attend Oxford or Cambridge University when he graduated. But Dahl declined.

“No thank you,” he told her. “I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will

send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China.” After graduation in 1932, Dahl

joined an expedition ____ to Newfoundland.

Dahl suffered serious injuries to his skull, spine and hip. After hip replacement and two

spinal surgeries, Dahl was transferred to Washington D.C. and became an assistant air attaché

____. It was in Washington, D.C. that Dahl met the author C.S. Forrester, who encouraged Dahl

to start writing. Dahl was first published in the Saturday Evening Post, and afterwards in many

magazines, including the prestigious ____The New Yorker. Having started out writing realistic

fiction, he describes his stories as becoming increasingly “fantastic” ____. He credited C.S.

Forrester with the fact that he had a writing career at all, telling New York Times book reviewer

Willa Petschek

that if he’d never been asked to write, “I doubt if I'd ever have thought to do it.” His first story

for children was called The Gremlins, and he wrote it for Walt Disney in 1942. As it was

unsuccessful, Dahl resumed writing his macabre ____ stories for adult readers.

His own children were his first audience. “Children are ... highly critical. And they lose

interest so quickly,” he said in his New York Times book review interview. “You have to keep

things ticking along. And if you think a child is getting bored, you must think up something that

jolts it back. Something that tickles ____. You have to know what children like.” Dahl’s

reputation as a children’s writer was established in 1961 with the critically

and commercially acclaimed ____ James and the Giant Peach. Three years later he published

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He is also well known for the popular Fantastic Fox (1970),

The Witches (1983) and Matilda (1988).

Though they have always been popular, Dahl’s children’s books have also been

controversial ____, as not all critics or parents think that it’s healthy to portray children

wreaking ____ harsh revenge on adults who mistreat them. But Dahl defended himself by

saying that his stories appealed to a child’s natural, crude sense of humor. Roald Dahl died in

1990 at the age of 74.

A. on the staff of an ambassador

B. a journey undertaken by a group of people

C. inspiring respect and admiration for a particular purpose

D. unable to be satisfied


E. giving rise to public disagreement

F. imaginative and unreal

G. disturbing

I. amuses

H. well thought of

J. causing (a large amount of damage or harm)




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Answer 1

Answer:

dont know

Explanation:

sorry