Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a
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Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school teacher. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, came 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 (职员).
Munro’s first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文学的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互关联的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was published. This book earned Munro a second 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 both 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 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is known as a “master of the contemporary (当代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
小题1: Where does Alice Munro come from?
A. the USA. B. Canada.
C. Australia. D. England.
小题2:Which of the following shows the correct order of the events?
① Munro wrote the collection—Lives of Girls and Women.
② Munro won the Governor General’s Award for the first time.
③ Munro did part-time jobs as a waitress, a tobacco picker and a library clerk.
④ Munro came to China for a trip.小题3: The best title of the passage should be “_________”.| A．The first woman Nobel Prize winner—Alice Munro | | B．Alice Munro—Master of the contemporary short story | | C．Munro’s collection of interlinked stories | | D．How can one receive the Nobel Prize in Literature |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:B |
解析
试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了Alice Munro—现代短篇故事大师。出生在加拿大温厄姆,安大略省，十几岁开始写作，出版了许多受人们喜欢的小说和书籍，2013年10月10日,Munro被授予诺贝尔文学奖，成为加拿大第一个获得诺贝尔文学奖的女人。
小题1:细节理解题。根据短文第一段Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario.，或第二段Munro’s first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文学的) prize.可知她来自加拿大。
小题2:归纳理解题。根据短文描述事件的时间，故选D
小题3:标题归纳题。根据短文的主旨大意主要介绍了Alice Munro—现代短篇故事大师，故选B。 |
举一反三
Two years ago, Martin was a “problem child” and he often caused a lot of trouble. But he didn’t usually give his mother much trouble. However, after his father’s death, Martin’s life became much more . His mother didn’t have enough money to for his education. To do this, she had to work hard, and so she was not often at home with him.
His mother looked after him as as she could, but Martin still caused problems. He was not interested in and he was often in trouble with the police. Luckily, his mother was very patient, and didn’t give up trying to help him. In the end, she made a difficult decision: to send him to a boys’ boarding school (寄宿学校). But Martin it very much. One day, he told his head teacher he wanted to leave the . The head teacher said it was necessary for Martin to talk with his . So Martin called his mother. To his surprise, this phone call changed his life.
“ was really what I needed,” he said later. “My mother helped me to understand how much she had given me. She also told me that my father was watching me, _ he had died, and he would always be proud of everything good I did. I realized that after my father died, I was to be alone, and I tried to make my mother pay more attention to me.”
Martin has really changed, and he is now a student in his class. How was he able to change? His mother’s love helped _ to feel good about himself. As Martin says it’s very important for parents to be there for their children.
| 小题1: | | A．careful | B．beautiful | C．difficult | D．wonderful |
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| 小题4: | | A．eating | B．playing | C．fighting | D．studying |
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| 小题5: | | A．had | B．liked | C．hated | D．took |
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| 小题6: | | A．room | B．library | C．street | D．school |
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| 小题7: | | A．mother | B．father | C．teacher | D．head teacher |
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| 小题9: | | A．if | B．than | C．although | D．because |
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| 小题10: | | A．nice | B．glad | C．afraid | D．careful |
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| 小题11: | | A．bad | B．good | C．healthy | D．lazy |
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One day a young girl was driving with her father and it started to rain. “What should I do?” the girl asked. “Keep driving,” her father said. Cars began to pull over (靠 …. 停车) to the side of the road. “What should I do?” the young girl asked. “小题1:____” her father said. “But don’t stop.”
A few feet up the road, she noticed that even more drivers were also pulling over. “小题2:_____Everyone else is pulling over!” she told her father. “Don’t give up, just keep driving!” her father told her.
The rain continued, but she never stopped driving and soon she could see a little more clearly. After a few miles she was again on dry land and the sun came out.
“小题3:____” her father said.
“But why now?” the girl asked.
“When you get out, look back at all the people that gave up and are still in the rain.
小题4: ” said her father. |
There were no classes that afternoon, so Henry went to a shop near his home. The shop sold many jackets. He looked them and at last chose a very nice one. He it on and then told the shopkeeper to put it a bag.
At that time his friend Bruce came into the shop. They hadn’t seen each other for a long time. They were so to meet again that they forgot else. Soon they were busy talking on and on happily. It was nearly six o’clock, they decided to go and have dinner together.
Henry picked up the bag, and walked the door of the shop. The shopkeeper stopped them and asked Henry to pay for the jacket. Henry looked at him in at first, but soon he remembered that he hadn’t paid for it. He said , gave him the money and then left the shop with his friend.
小题1:| A．fruit | B．book | C．food | D．clothing |
小题2:小题3:| A．put | B．try | C．tried | D．turned |
小题4:小题5:| A．worried | B．interested | C．excited | D．anxious |
小题6:| A．everything | B．anybody | C．anything | D．nobody |
小题7:| A．but | B．so that | C．because | D．so |
小题8:| A．through | B．to | C．out of | D．around |
小题9:| A．need | B．danger | C．trouble | D．surprise |
小题10:| A．goodbye | B．sorry | C．hello | D．yes |
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When you are in England, you must be very careful in the street because the traffic moves on the left. Before you cross a street, you must look to the right first then the left.
If the traffic lights are red, the traffic must stop. Then the people on foot can cross the road carefully! If the traffic lights are green, the traffic can go. People mustn’t cross. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come back from work, the streets are very busy. Traffic is the most dangerous then.
When you go by bus in Hong Kong, you have to be careful, too. Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. Have a look first, or you will go the wrong way.
In Hong Kong, there are big buses with two floors. You can sit on the second floor. From there you can see the city very well. It’s very interesting.
小题1:When you cross a street in England, you must _______________.| A．look to the left then the right | | B．look to the right first and then the left | | C．look to the cars and buses | | D．look to the left and the right at the same time |
小题2:If the traffic lights are red, ____________________.| A．the traffic must go | B．the people must go | | C．the traffic must stop | D．the people must stop |
小题3:Traffic is the most dangerous___________________.| A．in the morning | | B．in the evening | | C．when you go to the wrong way | | D．when people go to or come back from work |
小题4: In Hong Kong, the traffic moves _________________.| A．the same way as in most cities in China | | B．on the right | | C．the same way as in most cities in the UK | | D．in the middle of the roads |
小题5: If you take a bus with two floors in Hong Kong, you can sit on the second floor because__________________________________.| A．you can enjoy a better view | | B．it is cooler up there. | | C．you can have a larger seat | | D．it is easy for you to know the city well. |
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It was Mother’s Day, but the young mother was a little unhappy, because she was 800 miles away from her parents. In the morning, she phoned her mother to wish her a happy Mother’s Day, and her mother told her about the beautiful lilacs（丁香）in the garden.
Later that day, when she told her husband about the lilacs, he said, “I know where we can find all that you want. Get the children and come on.” So they went out, driving down the country roads.
There on a small hill, they saw a lot of beautiful purple lilacs. The young woman ran quickly to enjoy the flowers. Carefully she picked a few here and a few there. On their way home there was a smile on her face.
When they were passing a nursing home（养老院）, the young woman saw an old granny sitting in a chair. She had no children with her. They stopped the car and the young woman walked to the old woman, put the flowers in her hands, and smiled at her. The old granny thanked her again and again. She smiled happily, too.
When the young mother came back to her car, her children asked her, “Who is that old granny? Why did you give our flowers to her?”
“I don’t know her,” their mother said. “ but it is Mother’s Day, and she has no children. I have all of you, and I still have my mother. Just think how much those flowers mean to her.”
小题1:The young woman was a little unhappy on Mother’s Day because ______________.| A．she didn’t have a present | | B．she was a long way from her mother | | C．she didn’t know it was Mother’s Day | | D．she wanted to see her father |
小题2:There were many beautiful purple lilacs ________________.| A．in her garden | B．in the market | | C．on a hill | D．in the nursing home |
小题3:The young woman had ___________________.| A．one child | B．no child | | C．more than one child | D．a boy and a girl |
小题4:The young woman gave the flowers to the old granny because ______________.| A．she was her mother | | B．she didn’t like those flowers | | C．her mother asked her to do so | | D．she wanted the old granny to be happy |
小题5:What can you learn from the story?| A．After giving roses to others, fragrance（香味）keeps with your hands | | B．Like mother, like son. | | C．Rome was not built in a day. | | D．Never too old to learn. |
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