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The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

Rabindranath Tagore( 1913)

Prize motivation: "because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"

William Faulkner (1949)

Prize motivation: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"

Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954)

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea"

John Steinbeck (1962)

Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953)

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values"

Claude Simon (1985)

Prize motivation: "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition"

Mo Yan (2012)

Prize motivation: “he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary".

Bob Dylan (2016)

Prize motivation: "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

1.Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?

A. William Faulkner.　　　　　　　　　 B. Bob Dylan.

C. Rabindranath Tagore.　　　　　　　 D. Claude Simon.

2.Which writer won Noble Prize for his specific work instead of his lifelong achievements?

A. Ernest Hemingway.　 　　　　　 B. John Steinbeck.

C. William Faulkner.　　　　　　 D. Winston Churchill.

3.Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song writing Nobel Prize winner?

A. Mo Yan’s.　　　　　　　　　 B. Bob Dylun’s.

C. Claude Simon’s. 　　　　 D. Rabindranath Tagore’s.

4.Who described real life experience in his historic works?

A. John Steinbeck.　 　　　　　　　 B. Mo Yan.

C. Ernest Hemingway. 　　　　　　 D. Winston Churchill.

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The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

Rabindranath Tagore (1913)

Prize motivation:“because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse (诗歌), by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”

William Faulkner (1949)

Prize motivation: “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1953)

Prize motivation: “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory(演讲) in defending exalted human values.”

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1954)

Prize motivation: “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.”

John Steinbeck (1962)

Prize motivation: “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.”

Claude Simon (1985)

Prize motivation: “who in his novel combines the poet’s and the painter’s creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition.”

Mo Yan (2012)

Prize motivation: “who with hallucinatory(幻觉般的) realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.”

Bob Dylan (2016)

Prize motivation: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

1.Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?

A. William Faulkner.　　 B. Bob Dylan.

C. Rabindranath Tagore.　　 D. Claude Simon.

2.Which writer won Noble Prize mostly for his specific work?

A. Ernest Hemingway.　　 B. John Steinbeck.

C. William Faulkner.　　 D. Winston Churchill.

3.Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song-writing Nobel Prize winner?

A. Mo Yan’s.　　 B. Bob Dylan’s.

C. Claude Simon’s.　　 D. Rabindranath Tagore’s.

4.Who described real life experiences in his historic works?

A. John Steinbeck.　　 B. Mo Yan.

C. Ernest Hemingway.　　 D. Winston Churchill.

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Controversy erupted after winners for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature were announced on Oct 10. 1. was different was that two prizes were given, one for the 2. (cancel) 2018 award and the other for 2019. The choice for 2018 — Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who also 3. (win) the Man Booker International Prize in 2018, was well-received. The 2019 winner, however, caused quite a stir. Peter Handke, from Austria, has 4. (previous) been accused of defending war crimes.

In 2008, French-American writer Jonathan Littell said this about Handke: “He might be a fantastic artist, but 5. a human being he is my enemy.” Hari Kunzru, a British-Indian novelist, was so outspoken as 6. (call) giving Handke the Nobel “a troubling choice” in the Guardian.

But the Swedish Academy didn’t think the 7. (accuse) was relevant. “It is not in the Academy’s mandate (权限) to balance literary quality against political considerations,” Mats Malm, the Swedish Academy’s secretary, told The New York Times.

When it comes to the literary quality of Handke’s work, there’s no argument. “Handke is a great German prose stylist (散文作家), 8. has spent his career 9. (explore) both the natural world and the world of human consciousness with precision, humor, and courage, ” Jonathan Galassi, president of the Farrar, said in a statement.

So in the end, these controversies come down to a simple question: Should a person’s morals and political views 10. (take) into consideration when we evaluate literature?

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Today the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded journalist Svetlana Alexievich approximately $970,000 in recognition of a lifetime of excellence. The 67-year-old author of Voices From Chernobyl and War's Unwomanly Face was praised by the Swedish Academy “for her polyphonic(复调式的) writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

Prizes like the Nobel inspire much expectations before the announcement. People give their best guesses as to who will win, look back on past winners, and even place bets as if spectators at a Derby(赛马会).

Literary prizes reward artistic brilliance. They help writers earn a decent living. But is the public’s fascination with prize-winning authors healthy? Our impulse seems to increasingly contribute to a culture of turning authors into celebrities, where readers follow the author instead of the book.

A story should stand on its own, as a considered, complete book, without biographical information from author. It’s an idea perhaps best conveyed in Roland Barthes’s 1968 essay The Death of the Author. “The image of literature to be found in contemporary culture is arbitrarily centered on the author, his person, his history, his tastes, his passions.”

Nearly 50 years later, a few still agree. “I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors,” New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante once wrote. “If books have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t,”she continued. “True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known.”

①But the rules for submission for the Man Booker International Prize, for example, strongly encourage authors to “make themselves available for publicity”. And the foundation behind the National Book Award requires finalists to participate in their “website-related publicity”.

② In 2007, a reporter who showed up uninvited at Doris Lessing’s house was the first to inform her that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Today the Twitterati came knocking on Alexievich’s digital door hour before the award was even official. To be considered for a prize is to be a public figure.

③ Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling, with over 5.6 million Twitter followers, has actively addressed readers through public appearances and social media, revealing much more than we could have imagined when we closed the final Harry Potter book. We now know the house Harry's children will be sorted into, that Dumbledore is gay,“Voldemort” is actually pronounced with a silent “t”, and a whole host of the other minor and major details about the backstory of the characters.

The magical world Rowling created in her books—a relatively tight mystery with well-laid clues that led to a satisfying conclusion, which had to prove their merits to the reader based on an internal logic—is being unraveled by her own hand.

④ Of course, public attention also has very important benefits for authors. For three months after receiving the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad sold about triple its print sales from before the prize, Publishers Weekly reports. On Oct. 5, 2010, in the first FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards, as Nigerian-born Chigozie Obioma accepted the prize for fiction with an easy smile, his excitement was appreciable. Given the cash prize of $40,000 for each winner, it’s hard to downplay the importance of such an honor. Such awards bring necessary visibility and funding to writers facing a literary landscape dominated by white men.

But our culture of celebrity is often too wrapped up in the way we read: How might the meaning of a work change if the author really didn’t grow up in a poor neighborhood, or if he or she was abused in childhood? Readers studied the author’s life as if it were the key to interpreting his or her novels.

Behind our fascination is the question that drives all such questions: What did the author intend? By all means, let us praise brilliant work and in doing so trust that the author has already told us enough, and that the story he or she meant to tell ended with the final page.

1.What can we learn from the passage?

A.People wait for the Nobel Prize announcement calmly and patiently.

B.Roland Barthes thinks it necessary to read literature centered on authors.

C.Elena Ferrante holds that books should be read independently of authors' life.

D.The Man Booker International Prize discourages authors from publicity.

2.What does the underlined word “unraveled” in Paragraph 9 probably mean?

A.Underlined. B.Unfolded. C.Updated. D.United.

3.Which of the following is NOT the benefit of prize winning for authors?

A.It reveals more details about the characters in the book.

B.It dramatically increases the sales of the book.

C.It brings in necessary funding to authors.

D.It brings about changes in dominance in literary landscape.

4.Where can the sentence “Some authors satisfy, even encourage their fans. ” be best put in the passage?

A.① B.② C.③ D.④

5.What is the author's attitude towards our fascination with prize-winning authors?

A.Approval. B.Critical. C.Indifferent. D.Neutral.

6.What is the main idea of the passage?

A.To be awarded a prize is to be a public figure.

B.Public fascination with authors brings benefits.

C.Turning authors into celebrities is a bad culture.

D.There are big challenges for prize-winning authors.

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Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday．The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its Ⅲ-year history．Informed of his win today, the author, who was having dinner at home, was “overjoyed and scared"．

Born in 1955 to parents who were farmers, Mo Yan－a pen name for Guan Moye，grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in eastern China. At the age of 12, he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976 he joined the army and during this time began to study literature and writing．

He published his first book in 1981, but found literary success in 1987 with Hong Gaoliang Jiazu, which was successfully filmed in the same year, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou. In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth and his works show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs. Mo Yan is known as a prolific（多产的）writer. In addition to his novels, he has published many short stories and essays on various topics. Despite his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the most famous contemporary authors. Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French, Japanese and many other languages．

The awarding ceremony will be held on December 10．The winner will win a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of about $l  million．

1.How did Mo Yan feel when he was told about the news?

A．Excited and proud．                     B． Happy and surprised．

C．Worried and cautious                    D． Uncertain and shocked．

2.Mo Yan developed his ability for writing when he was________．

A．on a farm         B．in a factory        C．in a school         D．in the army

3.One of Mo Yan's characteristics of writing is that he

A．writes about topics he is familiar with        B．focuses on social problems in the country

C．describes his characters in a unique way      D．explains difficult matters in simple words

4.What's the best title for this passage?

A．How Mo Yan Gets Nobel Prize              B．An Introduction to Nobel Prize

C．Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature        D．A World Famous Writer, Mo Yan

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Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday. The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its 111-year history. Informed of his win today, the author, who was having dinner at home, was “overjoyed and scared”.

Born in 1955 to parents who were farmers, Mo Yan — a pen name for Guan Moye, grew up in Gaomi, Shandong province in eastern China. At the age of 12, he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976 he joined the army and during this time began to study literature and writing.

He published his first book in 1981, but found literary success in 1987 with Hong Gaoliang Jiazu, which was successfully filmed in the same year, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou. In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth and his works show the life of Chinese people as well as the country’s unique culture and folk customs. Mo Yan is known as a productive writer. In addition to his novels, he has published many short stories and essays on various topics. Despite his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the most famous contemporary authors. Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French, Japanese and many other languages.

The awarding ceremony has been held on December 10. The winner has won a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of about $1 million.

1.How did Mo Yan feel when he was told about the news?

A. Excited and proud.　　 　　　　　　　　 　 B. Worried and cautious.

C. Uncertain and shocked. 　　　　　　 　 D. Happy and surprised.

2.One of Mo Yan’s characteristics of writing is that he ________.

A. focuses on social problems in the country　　

B. writes about topics he is familiar with

C. describes his characters in a unique way

D. explains difficult matters in simple words

3.What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 　

B. An Introduction to Nobel Prize

C. How Mo Yan Gets Nobel Prize

D. A World Famous Writer, Mo Yan

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Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday. The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its 111-year history. Informed of his win today, the author, who was having dinner at home, was “overjoyed and scared”.

Born in 1955 to parents who were farmers, Mo Yan — a pen name for Guan Moye, grew up in Gaomi, Shandong province in eastern China. At the age of 12, he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976 he joined the army and during this time began to study literature and writing.

He published his first book in 1981, but found literary success in 1987 with Hong Gaoliang Jiazu, which was successfully filmed in the same year, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou. In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth and his works show the life of Chinese people as well as the country’s unique culture and folk customs. Mo Yan is known as a productive writer. In addition to his novels, he has published many short stories and essays on various topics. Despite his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the most famous contemporary authors. Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French, Japanese and many other languages.

The awarding ceremony has been held on December 10. The winner has won a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of about $1 million.

1.How did Mo Yan feel when he was told about the news?

A. Excited and proud.                                   B. Worried and cautious

C. Uncertain and shocked.                            D. Happy and surprised

2.One of Mo Yan’s characteristics of writing is that he ________.

A. focuses on social problems in the country

B. writes about topics he is familiar with

C. describes his characters in a unique way

D. explains difficult matters in simple words

3.What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

B. An Introduction to Nobel Prize

C. How Mo Yan Gets Nobel Prize

D. A World Famous Writer, Mo Yan

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In 1911, Madame Curie received a second Nobel Prize for her research, the first person in the world ______ two Nobel Prizes.

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Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday. The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its 111-year history. Informed of his win today, the author, who was having dinner at home, was “overjoyed and scared”.

Born in 1955 to parents who were farmers, Mo Yan — a pen name for Guan Moye, grew up in Gaomi, Shandong province in eastern China. At the age of 12, he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976 he joined the army and during this time began to study literature and writing.

He published his first book in 1981, but found literary success in 1987 with Hong Gaoliang Jiazu, which was successfully filmed in the same year, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou. In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth and his works show the life of Chinese people as well as the country’s unique culture and folk customs. Mo Yan is known as a productive writer. In addition to his novels, he has published many short stories and essays on various topics. Despite his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the most famous contemporary authors. Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French, Japanese and many other languages.

The awarding ceremony will be held on December 10. The winner will win a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of about $1 million.

1.How did Mo Yan feel when he was told about the news?

A．Excited and proud.                      B．Worried and cautious.

C．Happy and surprised.                     D．Uncertain and shocked.

2.One of Mo Yan’s characteristics of writing is that he ________.

A．writes about topics he is familiar with

B．focuses on social problems in the country

C．describes his characters in a unique way

D．explains difficult matters in simple words

3.What’s the best title for this passage?

A．How Mo Yan Gets Nobel Prize

B．An Introduction to Nobel Prize

C．Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

D．A World Famous Writer, Mo Yan

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Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday．The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its 111-year history．Informed of his win today, the author, who was having dinner at home, was “overjoyed and scared"．

Born in 1955 to parents who were farmers, Mo Yan－a pen name for Guan Moye, grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in eastern China． At the age of 12, he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976, he joined the army and during this time began to study literature and writing．

He published his first book in 1981, but found literary success in 1987 with Hong Gaoliang Jiazu, which was successfully filmed in the same year, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou. In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth and his works show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs．Mo Yan is known as a prolific（多产的）writer．In addition to his novels, he has published many short stories and essays on various topics. Despite his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the most famous contemporary authors．Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French, Japanese and many other languages．

The awarding ceremony will be held on December 10．The winner will win a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of about $l million．

1.Mo Yan developed his ability for writing when he was_ .

A. on a farm        B. in a factory       C. in the army       D. in a school

2.One of Mo Yan's characteristics of writing is that he ________.

A. explains difficult matters in simple words

B. focuses on social problems in the country

C. describes his characters in a unique way

D. writes about topics he is familiar with

3.What's the best title for this passage?

A. How Mo Yan Gets Nobel Prize

B. Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

C. An Introduction to Nobel Prize

D. A World Famous Writer, Mo Yan

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