Question

Alice Munro is the first Canadian citizen to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Munro was born into a farming family in Ontario in 1931. The family was very poor.

Munro did a lot of physical work as a young girl. She started writing stories in her teens and studied journalism and English at the University of Western Ontario. She published in many magazines starting in the 1950s. in 1968, she published Dance of the Happy Shades, a collection of short stories. In 1971, she published a collection of stories Lives of Girls and Women, and in many of the stories she talks about her poor relationship with her mother.

Since her first book in 1968, Munro has won many awards, including the 2009 Man Booker International Prize, with the 2013 Nobel Prize as her biggest honor. But Munro doesn’t see herself as a talented writer.

“I have many notebooks that include this terrible clumsy(笨拙的) writing. I often wonder, when I look at these first drafts(草稿), if it was meaningful to do this at all. I’m the opposite of a writer with quick gift.”

“Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision(精确) to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels.” The Man Booker judging committee said.

Munro became world-famous for writing about everyday people. “Here we have a world prize being won by someone who writes about housewives in Vancouver(温哥华), booksellers in Victoria, bean farmers in Huron Country and accountants and teachers and librarians— common Canadian people, and she turns it into magic,” said Doug Gibson, Munro’s publisher.

“After many years, many collections and many wonderful stories, readers may feel they know everything about Alice Munro, especially as so many of her characters live lives similar to her own. In fact, we know very little about her. This is one of the reasons readers are crazy about Munro. This other reason is that she is so good.” said Anne Enright from Guardian.

1.As a Nobel Prize winner, Alice Munro is most famous for ?

A.The mystery of her personal life B.her hard childhood

C.writing short stories D.her quick gift for writing

2.What do we know about Munro’s writing?

A.It is full of depth and wisdom. B.It usually tells lifetime stories.

C.It only cares about the life of women. D.It is about wealthy and famous people.

3.Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened in Munro’s life?

a. She published Lives of Girls and Women

b. She won the Man Booker International Prize.

c. She studied at the University of Western Ontario.

d. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

e. She published Dance of the Happy Shade.

A.c-a-b-d-e B.a-b-c-d-e C.a-c-b-e-d D.c-e-a-b-d

4.What does Paragraph 6 mainly talk about?

A.Magic created by Alice Munro. B.Characters in Munro’s stories.

C.Life of common Canadian people. D.Alice Munro’s special writing style.

Answer 1