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Emily Brontë, one of the three gifted Brontë sisters, is the author of the famous English novel Wuthering Heights.
She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in England, the fifth of six children. In 1820, her family moved to
Haworth, 39 her mother died in 1821 and her two elder sisters died in 1825. Her father, a minister, was a stern and
sullen man, and the aunt who took over the household was more strict than loving. The four surviving children
became a close-knit group and 40 one another with emotional and creative support. 41 in a small and remote
community, the four siblings paired off and used their unusual literary gifts to write about imaginary lands. Emily and
her younger sister Anne 42 the imaginary country of Gondal and wrote literature for it that included legends and
poetry. Gondal remains a source of Emily’s later art, providing the setting, characters, and situations for many of her
best dramatic poems and for her novel Wuthering Heights. 【題組】42 (A) destroyed (B) protected (C) created (D) invaded