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  Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890.She didn't go to school because her mother wanted to teach her at home.She studied the piano and singing in Paris.

  She got married(结婚)in 1914 to a pilot(飞行员)and they had one daughter.During the First World War(战争), when she was working as a nurse, she began to write detective novels(侦探小说), In the hospital, she learned a lot about drugs(药品), and she used these in her novels.

  She wrote her first novel in 1920.The hero(主人公)was a detective, Hercules Poirot.The book soon became a best seller(畅销书)and made her famous.

  In 1928, Agatha Christie was lost.The police found her two weeks later.She didn't know anything.This was the front page news in all the newspapers in Britain, and even today nobody knows what happened to her during those two weeks.

  In 1929, Agatha Christie went on holiday to the Middle East.She came home to England in 1930.

  After that, she travelled with her husband to the Middle East many times, and a lot of her later stories took place there, for example, Murder on the Nile.She also wrote the detective Miss Marple, and began to write plays.One of them, The Mousetrap, opened at a theatre in the Weat End of London in 1952, and is still on today.

  During her life she wrote nearly eighty detective stories.She also wrote other novels under the pen name of Mary Westmacott.She died in January 1976 at the age of eighty-six.

  Agatha Christie's detective novels are famous for their surprising endings(结局).

(1)

Christie began to write detective novels ________.

[  ]

A.

in 1914

B.

during World War I

C.

at home

D.

since she married

(2)

The detective in Christie's first novel is ________.

[  ]

A.

Poirot

B.

her mother

C.

Marple

D.

an archaeologist

(3)

Why was Christie lost for two weeks in 1928?

[  ]

A.

Because she was ill.

B.

Because she got married.

C.

Because she wanted to write novels herself.

D.

Nobody knows.

(4)

Why did her detective novels interest(使……感兴趣)so many readers? Because ________.

[  ]

A.

they have a sad ending

B.

they have an unusual ending

C.

there is always a murder in her novels

D.

Christie was very famous

答案:1.B;2.A;3.D;4.B;
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