42. E。【解析】根據41空的F選項后半段,大量提到了狄更斯父親被判入獄的事情以及對其后期寫小說的影響,觀察剩下的幾個選項,E選項的段首提到了soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a…,E選項的首句和F選項的內容能夠構成最大銜接,故選E。
43. A。【解析】觀察E選項末句,提到了狄更斯對于生活有獨特的視角,并能根據生活內容來創作,把創作內容提交給雜志,其中submitted short sketches to obscure magazines和A選項的首句the first published sketch “A Dinner at Poplar Work”能夠構成銜接連貫,故選A。
44. C。【解析】44小題可以根據A選項的最后一句或B選項的段首句來進行判斷,根據B選項首句,提到了特指the runaway success of The Pickwick Papers,再觀察剩下的選項,C選項的末句提到了The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Clubs…,故44空選C。