“Reading makes a full man” (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things. Jane Austen was one of the most wellknown women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice written in 1779 was the most popular. Victor Hugo, born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, the Hunchback of Notre-
Dame, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe. Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
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The numbers of writers are mentioned in the passage.
 
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Nationality
Jane Austen was from【小题2】_______
Jane Austen’s famous novel
Pride and Prejudice
Victor Hugo’s famous novel
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The winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1954
 
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Ruby, the artist, is an Asian elephant, She is17 years old. She lives in the zoo. Ruby has produced about 100 paintings since last year. She has made more than $ 40,000 for the zoo. Zoo leaders say Ruby first showed the talent (才能) about four years ago. Zoo workers watched her make the marks in the sand with her trunk. She rubbed (擦掉) out the marks, then made the new ones. The zoo worker gave her brushes and paints. Soon Ruby painted pictures.

Newspaper reporters wrote Ruby, then people asked about buying her pictures. And in this way, she made a lot of money for the zoo. This is how Ruby does the paintings. A zoo worker holds different color paints. Ruby touches the colors she wants. Then the worker gives her brushes with the chosen colors in her trunk and Ruby begins painting.

1.We can most probably read this story_______.

A.in a dictionary about read animals           B.in a newspaper

C.in a book on art                         D.in history textbooks

2.People asked about buying Ruby's pictures because_______.

A.newspaper reporters bought her picture

B.her pictures were better than those of real artists

C.they just wanted to have fun

D.zoo workers would let them have a free visit to the park

3.Ruby rubbed out the marks she had drawn in order to_______.

A.make other ones                        B.clear her trunk

C.dig a hole in the sand                    D.ask for brushes and paints

4.From the story, we can know that_______.

A.Ruby can paint a picture all by herself

B.Ruby can draw better pictures than the other animals in the zoo

C.Ruby has to finish a painting with the help of zoo workers

D.Ruby will ask for money if she finishes a picture

 

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