阅读理解。
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the French novelist “for the art of memory” with which he has “uncovered the lifeworld of the occupation”．
Although the 69yearold writer is a very popular literary figure in France, he is little known elsewhere.
So who is this Patrick Modiano, why does his memory have such an influence upon him, and what exactly has he uncovered?
Modiano was born in a suburb of Paris right after World War Ⅱ ended in Europe in July 1945.His father was a JewishItalian businessman who met his Belgian actress mother during the Nazi occupation of Paris.
As The New Yorker magazine put it, Europeans born in 1945 share a condition—They escaped the war, but “not the taint(污点) of the war”．
Modiano's life has been influenced by Nazi Germany's occupation during the war, and his family's connections to it.According to New Yorkbased newspaper Forward, his father survived the war dishonorably.When Paris' Jews were brought together to be sent to concentration camps, the businessman did not join them but spent the time making money from deals with Nazis on the black market.
“The novelist has a duty to record the lives of the people who have disappeared, the people who were made to disappear，” French writer Clemence Boulouque, also an expert in Jewish studies, told The New Yorker magazine.
In his more than three dozen novels, Modiano has returned again and again to the same themes：Jewishness, the Nazi occupation, and loss of identity.His characters collect pieces of old evidence, handwriting, photographs, police files, and newspaper cuttings.
His most admired novel，Missing Person, is a good example.It's the story about a detective who has lost his memory.He tries to find out who he really is by following his own steps through history.
Although Modiano's win is a surprise outside France, people are celebrating in his home country.Modiano is the 15th French literature winner.After Le Clezio's 2008 win, it seemed unlikely that there would be another so soon.
1.The passage is mainly about ________.
A．a literary figure's personal affairs
B．a famous novelist's family background
C．a Nobel Prize winner and his literary achievement
D．European people's sufferings during World War Ⅱ
2.Which of the following statements about Patrick Modiano is TRUE according to the passage?
A．He is a survivor of World War Ⅱ.
B．He tried to find back his lost identity.
C．World War Ⅱ has an impact on his life.
D．He was worldfamous before winning the Nobel Prize.
3.Modiano won the Nobel Prize because of ________.
A．his extraordinary character
B．his unique way of recording history
C．his characters' unusual experiences
D．his special connections to the war
4.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A．Modiano's parents were sent to the concentration camp
B．Modiano's winning the Prize was beyond expectation
C．Modiano's father had nothing to do with the Nazis
D．Clemence Boulouque is also of Jewish origin
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题
阅读理解。
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the French novelist “for the art of memory” with which he has “uncovered the lifeworld of the occupation”．
Although the 69yearold writer is a very popular literary figure in France, he is little known elsewhere.
So who is this Patrick Modiano, why does his memory have such an influence upon him, and what exactly has he uncovered?
Modiano was born in a suburb of Paris right after World War Ⅱ ended in Europe in July 1945.His father was a JewishItalian businessman who met his Belgian actress mother during the Nazi occupation of Paris.
As The New Yorker magazine put it, Europeans born in 1945 share a condition—They escaped the war, but “not the taint(污点) of the war”．
Modiano's life has been influenced by Nazi Germany's occupation during the war, and his family's connections to it.According to New Yorkbased newspaper Forward, his father survived the war dishonorably.When Paris' Jews were brought together to be sent to concentration camps, the businessman did not join them but spent the time making money from deals with Nazis on the black market.
“The novelist has a duty to record the lives of the people who have disappeared, the people who were made to disappear，” French writer Clemence Boulouque, also an expert in Jewish studies, told The New Yorker magazine.
In his more than three dozen novels, Modiano has returned again and again to the same themes：Jewishness, the Nazi occupation, and loss of identity.His characters collect pieces of old evidence, handwriting, photographs, police files, and newspaper cuttings.
His most admired novel，Missing Person, is a good example.It's the story about a detective who has lost his memory.He tries to find out who he really is by following his own steps through history.
Although Modiano's win is a surprise outside France, people are celebrating in his home country.Modiano is the 15th French literature winner.After Le Clezio's 2008 win, it seemed unlikely that there would be another so soon.
1.The passage is mainly about ________.
A．a literary figure's personal affairs
B．a famous novelist's family background
C．a Nobel Prize winner and his literary achievement
D．European people's sufferings during World War Ⅱ
2.Which of the following statements about Patrick Modiano is TRUE according to the passage?
A．He is a survivor of World War Ⅱ.
B．He tried to find back his lost identity.
C．World War Ⅱ has an impact on his life.
D．He was worldfamous before winning the Nobel Prize.
3.Modiano won the Nobel Prize because of ________.
A．his extraordinary character
B．his unique way of recording history
C．his characters' unusual experiences
D．his special connections to the war
4.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A．Modiano's parents were sent to the concentration camp
B．Modiano's winning the Prize was beyond expectation
C．Modiano's father had nothing to do with the Nazis
D．Clemence Boulouque is also of Jewish origin
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics went to three scientists who gave lighting a big change by inventing blue LED lights. A big change in lighting efficiency is under way around the world.
Save and green
LEDs use less energy than other forms of lighting. A typical LED bulb(灯泡) can produce around 83 lumens per watt — a measure of how much brightness you can get from a unit of electrical power — much more efficient than other lighting facilities.
LEDs produce light by passing electric current through a semiconductor, while traditional bulbs pass current through a wire. The wasted heat energy is chiefly why traditional bulbs are so much less efficient.
LEDs also last about 30 times longer than traditional bulbs, and many LED bulb products promise up to 25,000 hours of use — more than 17 years if you used one for about four hours a day.
Lighting the world
The lighting application is not only in homes. LEDs are also being used for street lights, public holiday and decorative displays, commercial buildings, and other large energy users.
Car lighting is another application where LEDs are making progress. LEDs used to be used only for daytime running lights, but now many new cars have LED headlights for night-time use.
LEDs also hold promise for bringing light to the more than 1.5 billion people around the world without access to electricity, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted. Indeed, several proposed solutions to energy poverty include the distribution of LED lights, particularly solar-powered ones.
Digital displays
Without blue LEDs, the world wouldn’t have back-lit smart phones, TV and computer LCD screens, blu-ray(蓝光) players, many forms of lighting, and countless other products.
In the electronics industry, LEDs provide back lighting for the liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in many smart phones, laptops, and televisions. The LEDs are more energy efficient and allow for very thin displays.
Blu-ray players use blue LED lasers(激光) to read data off a digital optical disc. When these systems switched from using an infrared(红外线) laser to a blue LED laser, it became possible to store five to 10 times as much data.
LEDs are now being explored for their potential to transmit(传送) data from the Internet across open space, similar to WiFi. Such a system could transmit a lot more data than WiFi alone. This high bandwidth is possible because LEDs can turn on and off millions of times per second.
The rise of LED lighting came at a time when people were just starting to be concerned about global warming. Because of LEDs’ energy efficiency, using them for the world’s lighting would have “an extreme impact” on society.
I1.___________ for Blue LED Lights to win the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics
●They2._______ big changes in lighting.
II3.________ of LEDs
●Save and green
1. Compared with other forms of lighting, LEDs are much more efficient because of the different4._________ they pass electric current
2. LED bulbs can be used 30 times longer than traditional bulbs.
●Lighting the world
1. Besides5._ ___________ of LED bulbs they can also be used as street lights and car headlights.
2. Because of their high efficiency, LEDs, especially solar-powered ones, promising to light areas6.____________ electricity.
●Digital displays
1. Many smart phones, laptops and televisions use LEDs to back-light their LCD7._________.
2. By using blue LED lasers, blu-ray players are likely to8.___________.
3. People are now exploring more9._________ uses of LEDs such as transmitting data.
III Conclusion
LED lighting will10._________ on environmental protection.
高三英语填空题中等难度题查看答案及解析
French writer Patrick Modiano, 69, devoted himself to his writing, and won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.
A. entirely B. extremely C. gradually D. generally
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
American singer Bob Dylan has become the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The 75-year-old was given the 1. (respect) honor for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
Born in America in 1941, Bob Dylan was an ordinary boy 2. favor of folk music. In the University of Minnesota, he joined a rock band and determined to become a great folk musician, 3.he dropped out of college at the end of his first year and went to New York 4.(seek) his dream. The artistic life of New York provided a rich5.(music) education6.he could not have received anywhere else. By the time of Dylan’s second album, The Freewheel in Bob Dylan, in May 1963, he 7.(begin)to make his name as a singer and a songwriter. At that time, he wrote many protest songs on the subjects of war and the civil-rights movements in America. In the songs , people heard anger and 8. (satisfaction). After the 1960s, he devoted9. (him)to Blues and Jazz
His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is 10. (general) considered to be his songwriting. As a songwriter and musician, he has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards..
高三英语短文填空困难题查看答案及解析
It’s hard to find Alice Munro in the media. Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight. On Dec 29, she still didn't seek the spotlight（聚光灯）when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.
In Munro's eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas. So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people. She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with. She writes about the ordinary things in the village－fox forming, trees filled in the Ontario wilderness, poor country alcohol and long last illnesses. Above all, she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune.
She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic. Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.
Runaway, one of Munro’s representative works, is a good example of her writing style. One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark. The story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee. The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love. It is about lost children and lots of chances that we can all find in life, There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart.
Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor. On Oct 10, 2013, the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the “master of the contemporary short story”.
1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro_____
A．didn't get on well with the media
B．remained modest though very successful
C．didn’t value the title of Women of the Year
D. was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize
2.What makes Alice Munro’s stories fascinating according to the text?
A．Her writing techniques
B．The complicated plots
C．The humorous language
D．Her rich imagination
3.In her representative work Runaway, Carla_____
A．leads a happy life with Clark
B．is a faithful wife to her husband
C．loses all hopes for a better life
D．tries to run away from her husband
4.What is the text mainly about?
A．Alice Munro and her hometown
B．The awards Alice Munro won
C．Alice Munro and her writing style
D．Alice Munro’s literary life
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It’s hard to find Alice Munro in the media. Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight. On Dec 29th, she still didn’t seek the spotlight when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.
In Munro’s eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas. So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people. She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with. She writes about the ordinary things in the village — trees in the Ontario wilderness, poor country schools and long last illnesses. Above all, she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune.
She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic. Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.
Runaway, one of Munro’s representative works, is a good example of her writing style. One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark. The story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decides to flee. The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love. It is about lost children and lost chances that we can all find in life. There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart.
Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor. On Oct 10th, 2013, the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the “master of the contemporary short story”.
1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro ________. .
A. didn’t get on well with the media
B. was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize
C. didn’t value the title of Women of the Year
D. remained modest though very successful
2.Many of Alice Munro’s works ________. .
A. center on the happy life of country women
B. are about betrayals of love and violence
C. focus on everyday life of ordinary people
D. are romantic stories setting in her hometown
3.What makes Alice Munro’s stories fascinating according to the text?
A. The complicated plots.
B. Her rich imagination.
C. The humorous language.
D. Her writing techniques.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Alice Munro and her hometown.
B. Alice Munro and her writing style.
C. Alice Munro's representative works.
D. The awards Alice Munro won.
高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Not until 2012 _____ to a Chinese writer for the first time.
A．the Nobel Prize in literature was awarded
B．was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature
C．was the Nobel Prize in literature awarded
D．the Nobel Prize was awarded in literature
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature _____ to Mo Yan, Chinese writer ,whose novel Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987.
A. returned B. distributed C. awarded D. went
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, has a number of strings to his bow, or rather his guitar. The 64-year-old is world-famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great singer and songwriter, like 2016’s winner, Bob Dylan.
As his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a British citizen who writes in English. He was educated at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers.
Ishiguro’s writing is highly self-contained. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to whom he is often compared. The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day, which later became a successful film.
The central character of the book is a butler (男管家) called Stevens. He is a loyal servant to an English lord, and a character who some people might call repressed. He misses out on affection and love because he will not admit his feelings to anyone. We have to read between the lines to uncover the “real” story, which isn’t quite the one the butler is telling. Stevens finds it a challenge to communicate, and communication is often a theme in Ishiguro’s novels.
In this author’s works, there is a gap between our feelings and our ability to communicate them. The Nobel Committee stressed it when talking about Ishiguro’s works: The writer has uncovered the abyss (深渊) beneath our unreal sense of connection with the world.
1.What did Ishiguro want to be in the beginning?
A. A famous writer. B. A guitar player.
C. A second Bob Dylan. D. A singer and songwriter.
2.Why is the story not quite the one Stevens tells in The Remains of the Day?
A. Because he is not allowed to tell the truth.
B. Because he misses out on what he desires.
C. Because he doesn’t express himself truly.
D. Because he has low social status as a servant.
3.What does the underlined word “it” refer to?
A. The author’s sense of the world.
B. The theme of Ishiguro’s works.
C. The reason for choosing the winner.
D. Our ability to communicate feelings.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Remains of the Day
B. Quiet writing style of a great author
C. Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
D. How Kazuo Ishiguro’s writing made him the Nobel Prize winner
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country _________ has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
A．which B．who C．where D．as
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析