【中级类英语听力】02（在线收听）

 When Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, sat down to write the story of an orphaned girl sent from India to the Yorkshire moors, where she helps herself and others find redemption and health by reviving a forgotten garden, she composed it not in the north of England but in her new home on Long Island. Born in 1849 and raised in Manchester, England into a middle class family, she moved as a teenager to Tennessee when her widowed mother decided they should emigrate at the end of the Civil War. Although they were poor, Burnett was delighted at giving up the grit and smoke of a factory city for the stunning landscapes of eastern Tennessee. In America she soon began to publish her romantic stories in some of the most popular magazines, eventually becoming hugely famous when she published her sixth novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy, in 1886. From the first her work had never been turned down by any publisher, but with Fauntleroy she became, and remained, the highest paid woman writer of her time, churning out books and stories with great regularity. Despite the enormous success of Fauntleroy, and later of A Little Princess, most of her novels and plays were not for a juvenile audience.

1. When Frances Hodgson Burnett was a teenager, where did she and her mother move to?

 Manchester, England

 Tennessee

 India

 Yorkshire moors

2. What kind of stories did she write that were published in popular magazines?

 Romance

 True crime

 Drama

 Comedy

3. What was her sixth novel?

 The Secret Garden

 A little Princess

 Little Lord Fauntleroy

 None of the above

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1. Tennessee

2. Romance

3. Little Lord Fauntleroy