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
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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
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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..
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--- Have you heard that Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last year?
--- _____. He has made a positive contribution to that field.
A. Congratulations B. You must be joking
C. He deserves it D. By no means
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--Have you heard that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last year?
--______. He has made a positive contribution to that field.
A．Congratulations B．You must be joking C．By no means D．He deserves it
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.Mo Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye, has been awarded________2012 Nobel Prize for_______ literature．
A. a; a B. the; / C. the; a D. the ; the
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Herta Müller, the Romanianborn German writer, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.The award was announced in Stockholm.
Ms Müller, 56, immigrated to Germany from Romania in 1987.She is the first German writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Gunter Grass in 1999 and the 13th winner writing in German since the prize was first given in 1901.She is the 12th woman to get the literature prize.
But unlike Doris Leasing and V．S.Naipaul, Ms Müller is relatively unknown outside literary circles in Germany.“I am very surprised and still cannot believe it，” Ms Müller said in a statement in Germany.“I can't say anything more at the moment.”
She has written about 20 books, but just five have been translated into English, including the novels “The Land of Green Plums” and “The Appointment”．
At a news conference at the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in Berlin, where she lives, Ms Müller, wearing all black and sitting on a big chair, appeared overwhelmed by all the cameras in her face.She spoke of the 30 years she spent under a dictatorship, describing “living with fear in the morning that in the evening one would no longer exist”．
When asked what it meant that her name would now be mentioned at the same moment as German greats like Thomas Mann and Heinrich Bll, Ms Müller remained calm.“I am now nothing better and I'm nothing worse，” she said.“My inner thing is writing.That's what I can persist_in,_and if nothing special happens, I will never give up.”
Earlier in the day, at a news conference in Stockholm, Peter Englund，secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Ms Müller was honored for her “very, very special language” and because “she has really a story to tell about...and growing up as a stranger in your own family.”
1.Which of the following statements about Ms Müller is true?
A．Most of her works have been translated into English.
B．She immigrated to Germany from Romania when she was 35.
C．She's the first Romanian writer that has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
D．She is the first German writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature in the 21st
century.
2.Before getting the Nobel Prize, Ms Müller __________.
A．was famous for her works
B．lived a poor but happy life
C．was not wellknown to most people
D．had enough confidence in winning it
3.The underlined words “persist in” in Paragraph 6 mean __________.
A．refuse to do B．continue to do
C．stop to do D．agree to do
4.We can learn from the passage that __________.
A．Ms Müller's special language and experience made her get the Nobel Prize
B．most of Ms Müller's novels are unsuccessful works
C．Ms Müller felt much better after she won the Nobel Prize
D．Ms Müller was honored because of her wonderful description about German's
life
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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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(2013·高考安徽卷)Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012，________ made one of the Chinese people’s longheld dreams come true.
A．it B．that
C．what D．which
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Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, ________made one of the Chinese people’s long-held dreams come true.
A．it B．that C．what D．which
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-----Have you heard that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last year?
---- ________. He has made a positive contribution to that field.
A．Congratulations! B．You must be joking.
C．By no means! D．He deserves it.
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