四、短文填空
Agatha Christie is one of the most popular writers of all time. About four billion 1.______(
copies
)of her books have been sold. And they have been 2.______(
translated
)into 103 languages. She is often called “the queen of the whodunit(凶杀悬疑小说)”. A whodunit is a story that 3.______(
starts
)with a crime, usually murder. Then the main character of the story tries to discover who did it(or who - done - it). 4.______(
Readers
)love Agatha Christie's stories 5.______(
because
)there are lots of clues and puzzles(谜)for them to think about as they read. Her two most famous characters are the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the elderly amateur(业余的)detective Miss Marple. Christie always wrote about places that she knew, 6.______(
like
)Torquay, the English town where she was born in 1890.
Agatha Christie died in 1976 but her books continue to be popular today. For one week every year, lovers of her stories can go to the Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay. Most of 7.______(
them
)dress up in clothes from 8.______(
the
)1920s and 1930s, like characters in her stories. Jazz bands play at tea parties and there 9.______(
are
)dinners on old trains and at old country houses. “Murder” is everywhere, and visitors have a lot of fun 10.______(
trying
)to discover who the “killer” is — or whodunit.
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阿加莎·克里斯蒂是有史以来最受欢迎的作家之一。她的书已售出约40亿______（册）。并且它们已被______（翻译）成103种语言。她常被称为“凶杀悬疑小说女王”。凶杀悬疑小说是一种以犯罪（通常是谋杀）______（开头）的故事。然后故事的主角试图查明是谁干的（即“谁干的”）。______（读者）喜欢阿加莎·克里斯蒂的故事，______（因为）在阅读时，有很多线索和谜题供他们思考。她最著名的两个角色是比利时侦探赫尔克里·波洛和年长的业余侦探马普尔小姐。克里斯蒂总是写她熟悉的地方，______（比如）1890年她出生的英国小镇托基。
阿加莎·克里斯蒂于1976年去世，但她的书至今仍很受欢迎。每年有一周，她的故事爱好者可以参加托基的阿加莎·克里斯蒂节。他们中的大多数人会穿上______（20世纪）20年代和30年代的服装，就像她故事中的角色一样。爵士乐队会在茶会上演奏，还有在旧火车和旧乡村别墅里的晚餐。“谋杀”无处不在，游客们在试图查明“凶手”是谁（即“谁干的”）的过程中玩得很开心。
