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课时作业8 词义猜测题(1) 对应学生课时P182(限时:30分钟)
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(2023·广东广州市天河区高三二模)
This paragraph is not ordinary. Look at it. At first, it won't look too odd. Just a normal paragraph — you may think. But look at it again and you might find it a bit unusual. Can you spot it? Is anything...missing?
What you've just read is a lipogram—a text without a particular letter. It is the hardest kind as it doesn't contain the letter E—the most common letter in the English language. Try writing one yourself and you'll imagine the task faced by the French writer Georges Perec, when a friend challenged him to write a whole novel without using E—a letter which is even more common in French.
Perec was a frighteningly clever writer, a lover of word games and puzzles and also a master of the Chinese board game Go. As well as writing crossword puzzles for Paris magazines, he had already written a 5,000word palindrome, a text that reads the same forwards and backwards, like the wellknown “A man, a plan, a canal—Panama.” But his friends thought this task would be beyond him.
Perec took up the challenge. He was unable to use more than 70% of the French words, including those most commonly used. Surprisingly, he discovered this “impossible” rule unlocked his imagination. He later claimed he wrote this novel faster than any of his other books. He was forced to think and fight for every sentence. He had no choice but to be original.
The result was La Disparition, a detective story about the mysterious disappearance of a character named A.Vowl. The only Es were the four in his name on the cover. Despite the dozens of clues about the fantastically difficult rule, many original reviewers failed to spot what was staring them in the faces—the missing letter. Embarrassing for the critics, but hilarious for the writer and his friends.
Fortunately, the game Perec was playing did not destroy the book itself. Every sentence seems twisted slightly out of shape, and the resulting style is unique.
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