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【題目】短文填空

Alice Munro was b___【1】____ in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school t___【2】___. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, c___【3】___ out in 1950 while she was studying at the University of Western Ontario. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk (職員).

Munro’s f___【4】__ collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), w___【5】___ the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文學(xué)的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互關(guān)聯(lián)的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was p_【6】__. This book earned Munro a s__【7】___ Governor General’s Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. In 1980, Munro held the position of writer in residence (住校) at b___【8】_ the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection about once every four years.

On 10 October, 2013, Munro w__【9】__ awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is k___【10】__ as a “master of the contemporary (當(dāng)代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】born

【2】teacher

【3】came

【4】first

【5】won

【6】published

【7】second

【8】both

【9】was

【10】known

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了Alice Munro—現(xiàn)代短篇故事大師。出生在加拿大溫厄，安大略省，十幾歲開始寫作，出版了許多受人們喜歡的小說和書籍，2013年10月10，Munro被授予諾貝爾文學(xué)獎，成為加拿大第一個獲得諾貝爾文學(xué)獎的女人。

【1】句意：Alice Munro出生在Wingham, Ontario。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填born。

【2】句意：Anne Clarke Laidlaw是一名學(xué)校教師。 根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填teacher。

【3】句意：她的第一部故事The Dimensions of a Shadow在1950年出版。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填 came。

【4】句意：Munro的第一部故事集Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), 獲得了加拿大最高文學(xué)獎。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填first。

【5】句意： Munro的第一部故事集Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), 獲得了加拿大最高文學(xué)獎。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填won。

【6】句意：在1978年她的故事續(xù)集Who Do You Think You Are?被印刷。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填 published。

【7】句意：這部故事集為她贏得了第二次文學(xué)獎。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填second。

【8】句意：在1980年她在英國的哥倫比亞大學(xué)和the University of Queensland擁有作家職位。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填both。

【9】句意：在2013年10月10號Munro被授予諾貝爾文學(xué)獎。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填was。

【10】句意：她作為當(dāng)代短篇小說大師而聞名。根據(jù)句意及所給首字母此空應(yīng)填known 。