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Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called Alice Munro a “master of the contemporary short story”.

“She has taken an art form, the short story, which has tended to live a little bit in the shadow of the novel, and she has cultivated it almost to perfection,” he said.

The 82-year-old, whose books include Dear Life and dance of the Happy Shades, is only the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature since its start in 1901.

“I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win,” Munro told Canadian media.

Alice Munro: “I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art form.”

Munro, who began writing in her teenage years, published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, in 1950.

Dance of the Happy Shades, published in 1968, was Munro’s first collection, and it went on to win Canada’s highest literary prize, the Governor General’s Award.

In 2009, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her entire body of work — but she downplayed her achievements.

“I think maybe I was successful in doing this because I didn’t have any other talents,” she once said in an interview.

BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz said Munro had been “at the very top of her game since she started”.

“Very few writers are her equal,” he said, adding “She gets to the heart of what it is to be human”.

The award “probably won’t make a commercial difference” to the author, he added, but it “makes a huge difference to how her work will be viewed in historical terms”.

“If she hadn’t won it before she died, I think it would have been a terrible, terrible omission (遗漏).”

Often compared to Anton Chekhov, she is known for writing about the human spirit and a regular theme of her work is the dilemma faced by young girls growing up and coming to terms with living in a small town.

Several of her stories have also been adapted for the screen, including The Bear Came over the Mountain.

1.According to the text, Alice Munro ________.

A. is very good at writing short stories

B. had her first story published in 1968

C. is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature

D. was confident of winning the Nobel Prize for literature

2.What does Will Gompertz think of Alice Munro?

A. He thinks very highly of her.

B. He thinks she’s a productive writer.

C. He is amazed by her different skills.

D. He compares her to Anton Chekhov.

3.Which words can best describe Alice Munro?

A. Honest and responsible.

B. Cautious and friendly.

C. Caring and determined.

D. Talented and modest.

4.What’s the best title for the text?

A. Short story — an important art form.

B. A master of the contemporary short story.

C. Alice Munro’s novel adapted for the screen.

D. Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

1.All these passages belong to _____．

A．sales advertisement             B．want advertisement

C．resume (简历)                 D．notice

2.The applicants for the post of a secretary in City College Union Inc should have the following qualities except _____．          .

A．typing skill              B．writing rapidly

C．ability of organization        D．knowledge about filling the form

3.The attractiveness of the post in EMU AIRLINE is  _____ ．           .

A．its good salary                    B．its nice working condition

C．its promising future      D．its free flying

4.According to Sewing Machinist, how can you contact with this company?

A．By phone.    B．By email.        C．By fax.           D．By visit.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that the UK will host the first ever Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit(峰会) in London this October.This global summit aims to put mental-health care on an equal footing with the physical kind.

But there is a long way to go. One in four people will experience a mental-health problem at some point in life. In rich countries mental illnesses account for more suffering and premature death than heart disease, strokes(中风) or cancer. Meanwhile the central-African countries have just one mental-health professional per 100,000 people, a fiftieth as many as Europe has. (Less than 1% of foreign aid for health care goes towards mental health.)

As developing countries handle infectious diseases, mental health will consume a greater share of budgets and attention there. By 2020 mental-health conditions may account for 15% of the global burden of disease, but even in rich countries many people with common problems still go without treatment.

It is clear that mental illness is fast becoming one of the global health challenges of the 21st century. Until recently, this hasn’t had the profile it deserves on a global stage. The ministers gathering in London must produce new money and focus—and not just another declaration. The summit is also expected to help countries learn from each other to find the best ways to deal with increased rates of depression and anxiety among young people.

1.Which of the following best explains “on an equal footing” underlined in paragraph 1?

A.Standing up for. B.Being as important as.

C.Standing in one’s shoes. D.Having an advantage over.

2.What is the purpose of holding the meeting?

A.To find more foreign aid for health care.

B.To make a declaration on mental illnesses.

C.To solve the physical problems of the youth.

D.To stress the importance of mental health.

3.Which disease causes more premature death in rich countries?

A.Heart disease. B.Cancer.

C.Mental illness. D.Stroke.

4.What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A.Effective measures should be taken on mental health.

B.The problem of mental illness has drawn enough attention.

C.People in developed countries suffer less mental illnesses.

D.Mental-health diseases have taken up about 15% of the global illness cases.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.Who is making the announcement?

A.The student government. B.The school newspaper.

C.The football team.

2.How many new teams are added this year?

A.Four. B.Three. C.Two.

3.What do the music club members do?

A.They organize trips. B.They attend concerts.

C.They have dancing nights.

4.Why should a student join a campus group?

A.To have friends. B.To make good grades. C.To keep up with world news.

高三英语长对话中等难度题查看答案及解析

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What relation is the woman to Peter Field?

A. His customer.　　 B. His secretary.　　 C. His boss.

2.When would the man like to meet Peter Field?

A. On the 3rd.　　 B. On the 4th.　　 C. On the 9th.

高三英语长对话困难题查看答案及解析

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The airplane maker Airbus has announced plans 1. (quit) making its famous A380 airplane. The A380 is the world’s largest passenger airplane and 2. (be) in service for 12 years. People said it was the future of flying. However, 3. (shift) in the demands of passengers mean the days of huge, four-engine passenger planes are over. Airbus decided to stop 4. (produce) of the 541-seat A380. The decision was due to sales that were not 5. satisfying as expected. Airbus said it would no longer build the A380 in 2021. Significant job losses at companies linked to the plane will be 6. (necessary) caused.

The A380 first 7. (fly) in April 2005. Britain’s leader called it a unique symbol of economic strength while Spain’s leader called it a dream. The jets were designed to make airports less busy by reducing 8. number of planes which was on the increase in the sky. However, booming air travel brought the demand for twin-engine planes that can fly non-stop to 9. people want to travel. An Airbus spokesperson said the A380 was a “passenger magnet”, and he was 10. (disappoint) that airlines misunderstood and marketed it poorly.

高三英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at — paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For the moment, though, he will stick to the skill that he has been delighted to make perfect over the past ten years: making delicate and unusual objects out of shells.

As he leads me round his apartment showing me his work, he points to a pair of shell-covered ornaments(装饰品) above a fireplace. “I shan’t be at all bothered if people don’t buy them because I have got so used to them, and to me they’re lovely. I never meant to sell my work commercially. Some friends came to see me about five years ago and said, ‘You must have an exhibition — people ought to see these. We’ll talk to a man who owns an art gallery’”. The result was an exhibition in London, at which 70 per cent of the objects were sold. His second exhibition opened at the gallery yesterday. Considering the enormous prices the pieces command —around ￡2,000 for the ornaments — an empty space above the fireplace would seem a small sacrifice for Cooke to make.

There are 86 pieces in the exhibition, with prices starting at￡225 for a shell-flower in a crystal vase. Cooke insists that he has nothing to do with the prices and is cheerily open about their level: he claims there is nobody else in the world who produces work like his, and, as the gallery-owner told him, “Well, you’re going to stop one day and everybody will want your pieces because there won’t be any more.”

“I do wish, though,” says Cooke, “that I’d taken this up a lot earlier, because then I would have been able to produce really wonderful things — at least the potential would have been there. Although the ideas are still there and I’m doing the best I can now, I’m more limited physically than I was when I started.” Still, the work that he has managed to produce is a long way from the common shell constructions that can be found in seaside shops. “I have a miniature(微型的) mind,” he says, and this has resulted in boxes covered in thousands of tiny shells, little shaded pictures made from shells and baskets of astonishingly realistic flowers.

Cooke’s quest(追求) for beautiful, and especially tiny, shells has taken him further than his Norfolk shore: to France, Thailand, Mexico, South Africa and the Philippines, to name but a few of the beaches where he has lain on his stomach and looked for beauties to bring home. He is insistent that he only collects dead shells and defends himself against people who write him letters accusing him of stripping the world’s beaches. “When I am collecting shells, I hear people’s great fat feet crunching(嘎吱嘎吱地踩) them up far faster than I can collect them; and the ones that are left, the sea breaks up. I would not dream of collecting shells with living creatures in them or diving for them, but once their occupants have left, why should I not collect them?” If one bases this argument on the amount of luggage that can be carried home by one man, the beauty of whose work is often greater than its natural parts, it becomes very convincing indeed.

1.What does the reader learn about Peter Cooke in the first paragraph?

A. He has produced hand-made objects in different materials.

B. He hopes to work with other materials in the future.

C. He has written about his love of making shell objects.

D. He was praised for his shell objects many years ago.

2.When mentioning the cost of his shell objects, Cooke ____.

A. cleverly changes the subject.

B. defends the prices charged for his work.

C. says he has no idea why the level is so high.

D. notes that his work will not always be so popular.

3.The “small sacrifice” in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.

A. the loss of Cooke’s ornaments            B. the display of Cooke’s ornaments

C. the cost of keeping Cooke’s ornaments      D. the space required to store Cooke’s ornaments

4.What does Cooke regret about his work?

A. He is not as famous as he should have been.B. He makes less money than he should make.

C. He is less imaginative than he used to be.      D. He is not as skillful as he used to be. 

5.What does the reader learn about Cooke's shell-collecting activities?

A. Not everyone approves of what he does.

B. Other methods might make his work easier.

C. Other tourists get in the way of his collecting.

D. Not all shells are the right size and shape for his work

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

The newcomers found if impossible to _______themselves to the climate sufficiently to make permanent homes in the new country.

A. suit        B. adapt     C. fit     D. match

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

The permanent solution to the trade war between China and America must ________ America withdrawing extra taxes.

A.interfere B.involve C.deliver D.distribute

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

结合语境写出划线词（组）在语境中的确切含义

1.Heavy drinking can cause permanent damage to the brain.

2.According to the law, all foreigners have to register with the local police within two weeks of arrival.

3.I love technology and try to keep up with it so I can relate to my students.

4.Lack of exercise is also a risk factor for heart disease but it's relatively small when compared with the others.

5.Often the lives of writers resemble the lives of the characters they create.

6.The seven-year-old was found crying with scratches on his face and neck.

7.Many farmers spray chemicals on crops to kill weeds and insects.

8.The space underneath could be used as a storage area.

9.Nothing can substitute for the advice your doctor is able to give you.

10.He was eventually diagnosed as suffering from terminal cancer.

11.I know I was a naive fool to trust him but he is a real charmer who totally took me in.

12.Panic set in, but Mary could not run—she was frozen to the spot.

13.Be careful not to damage other people's property.

14.During the period prior to the travel restrictions in China, only about 13 to 14 percent of all infections were documented.

15.With respect to your children, listen attentively to them without offering advice.

16.Viruses lie around our environment all of the time, waiting for a host cell to come along.

17.It helps regulate the planet’s temperature by influencing the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean.

18.Currently, GCPC's free services are open to all countries and regions around the globe, aiming at helping people tackle the current difficulties together.

19.A fifth year of drought is expected to have dramatic effects on the California economy.

20.An internet healthcare company has announced the launch of a global epidemic-prevention and control platform in a bid to integrate medical resources from home and abroad.

高三英语英译汉简单题查看答案及解析