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Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. obedience B. adapted G. supervision H. harmony C. conflict I. interpreted

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys (31)__________ on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.

The novel has been critically well (32)__________. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time, it soon went on to become a best-seller. It has been (33)__________ for film twice in English, in 1963 by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook.

The book takes place in the middle of an unspecified nuclear war. A plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down over the Pacific. The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of the boys survive the crash and find themselves deserted on an island, where they are alone without adult (34)__________. Some of them arrive as a musical choir(合唱队) under an established leader , while others are ordinary students. With the (35)__________ of the choirboys, some children like Sam and Eric, appear never to have encountered each other before. The book portrays their gradually becoming extremely cruel and violent. Left to themselves on a heavenly island, far from modern civilization, the well-educated children return to a primitive state.

Golding wrote his book as a counterpoint(对照) to R.M. Ballantyne's youth novel The Coral Island (1858), and included specific references to it, such as the rescuing naval officer's description of the children's (36)__________ of Ralph, one of the kid leaders on island, as \jolly(pleasant) good show, like the Coral Island\—Ralph, Piggy and Jack—have been (37)__________ as exaggerated versions of Ballantyne's Coral Island leading characters.

D. received E. will F. stranded J. exception K. pursuit