【正确答案】：
① WITH HIS FIRST SENTENCE, HE ENGAGES THE READER’S ATTENTION AND HOLDS IT TO THE END. IN LANGUAGE, HE IS OFTEN COMPARED WITH SHAKESPEARE FOR HIS ADEPTNESS WITH THE VERNACULAR AND LARGE VOCABULARY WITH WHICH HE BRINGS OUT MANY A WONDERFUL VERBAL PICTURE OF MAN AND SCENE. DICKENS’S WORKS ARE ALSO CHARACTERIZED BY A MINGLING OF HUMOR AND PATHOS. HIS HUMOR AND WIT SEEM INEXHAUSTIBLE.  
②CHARACTER-PORTRAYAL IS THE MOST DISTINGUISHED FEATURE OF DICKENS’S WORKS. HIS WORKS BEST-DEPICTED CHARACTERS ARE THOSE INNOCENT, VIRTUOUS, PERSECUTED, HELPLESS CHILD CHARACTERS SUCH AS OLIVER TWIST, LITTLE NELL. DICKENS WRITES BEST WHEN SHE WRITES FROM THE CHILD’S POINT OF VIEW. AND HE IS ALSO FAMOUS FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THOSE HORRIBLE AND GROTESQUE CHARACTERS LIKE FAGIN, BILL SIKES, AND QUILP, AND THOSE BROADLY HUMOROUS OR COMICAL ONES LIKE MR. MICAWBER, SAM WELLER, AND MRS. GAMP. HOWEVER, THESE CHARACTERS ARE IMPRESSIVE NOT ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE TRUE TO LIFE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THEY ARE OFTEN LARGER THAN LIFE. THEY ARE, IN A WAY, THE EMBODIMENTS OF HUMAN BEINGS, WITH SOME PARTICULAR FEATURES EXAGGERATED AND HIGHLIGHTED, EXPOSED TO THE DEGREE OF EXTREMITY.
【题目解析】：① 小说第一句就完全吸引住读者，引导他读到最后一页。在语言方面，他对方言的熟练运用及巨大的词汇量可与莎士比亚相媲美。狄更斯的作品还有一个特点，是将幽默与哀伤的泪水交汇起来。他的才智与幽默也是永不枯竭的。②狄更斯对人物的塑造是他小说的最大特点。他笔下的形象既有典型性，又具独特性，人物类型纷繁多样，分别都拥有自己与众不同的性格、气质和谈吐举止。他所刻画得最鲜灵生动的形象是那些无辜又深受迫害的儿童，如奥立佛特维斯特、小奈尔、大卫・科波菲尔与小多利特。当狄更斯从儿童的视角来写世界时，他所创作的便最出色。同时他也擅长塑造那种可怕的、古板的角色，如菲金、比尔·塞克斯和奎尔普，以及像米考伯先生、韦勒先生和甘普太太这样幽默或滑稽的人。然而，这些人物之所以令人印象深刻，不仅是因为他们反映了真实的生活，还因为他们所代表的往往比生活还要丰富。在某种程度上，他们代表的是全人类，有些特别的特征被夸大和突出以及被极端地暴露。
