题目内容

  F . Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St.Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

  His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary:“ My own happiness in the past often got such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

  This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

  However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda had an effect on his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to(沉迷于) alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?

 A. 5      B. 6        C. 7        D. 8

Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?

a. He became addicted to drinking.

b. He studied at St.Paul Academy.

c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.

d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.

e. He failed to reorder his life.

f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

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

We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald            .

  A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.

  B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army

  C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

  D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about          .

 A. Zelda’s personal life

 B. Zelda’s illness and treatment

 C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

 D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world

【小题1】A

【小题2】D

【小题3】C

【小题4】D


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词汇预约:sledges(雪橇);expedition(远征);navy(海军);explorer(探索者,考察者,探险者);navigate(航行于);glaciers(冰山);cracks(裂缝);survived(幸免于)

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A.In October(Antarctica’s spring), they set out, with 52 well-trained dogs to pull their sledges.

B.He intended to go to the north pole, but he heard that Robert Peary had already reached it.

C.Amundsen made a three-year expedition in the Arctic beginning in 1903.

D.Amundsen was once a navy man.

E.Amundsen died in the Arctic, 17 years later.

F.The first person to reach the south pole was Ronald Amundsen, A Norwegian explorer.

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1.________

Amundsen was born in Barge, near Oslo, Norway.He attended the University of Christiania and then joined the Norwegian navy.

2.________

He was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a northern water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific.But Amundsen’s greatest voyage began in 1910, at the other end of the Earth.

3.________

So instead Amundsen headed to the South Pole in his ship.He learned the a British expedition, led by Robert F.Scott, was also on its way there.Amundsen reached Antarctica in January, 1911.He and his men had to wait out the bitter cold, windy winter on the edge of the ice before they could head for the South Pole.

4.________

On the way to the Pole, they climbed glaciers, went around huge cracks in the ice, and survived freezing blizzards.Finally, on December 13th, 1911, Amundsen placed the Norwegian flag at the South Pole.Scott and his men found the flag there when they reached the Pole a month after Amundsen’s party.

5.________

He disappeared while making an air search for another explorer, Umber, to Nobile.

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  F.Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St.Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while.In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre.Then he had to make some money to impress her.

  His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary, “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

  This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920.Encouraged, he continued with the novel The Beautiful and Damned(1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age(1922), and a play The Vegetable(1923).But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world.Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security.Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

  However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing.During the 1920s he tried to record his life, but failed.By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic.During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night(1934)and The Love of the Last Tycoon(1940).While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol.Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

(1)

How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?

[  ]

A.

5

B.

6

C.

7

D.

8

(2)

Which is the correct order about Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?

a.He became addicted to drinking.

b.He studied at St.Paul Academy.

c.He published his first novel This Side of Paradise

d.The Great Gatsby won high praise.

e.He failed to record his life.

f.He joined the army and met Zelda.

[  ]

A.

f-c-e-a-b-d

B.

b-e-a-f-c-d

C.

f-d-e-c-b-a

D.

b-f-c-d-e-a

(3)

We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald ________.

[  ]

A.

had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama

B.

was well educated and well off before he served in the army

C.

would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

D.

helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

(4)

The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about ________.

[  ]

A.

Zelda’s personal life

B.

Zelda’s illness and treatment

C.

Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

D.

Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

  Ernest Miller Hemingway(July 21, 1899-July 2, 1961)was an American writer and journalist.His writing style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image(形象)affected later generations.Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

  Hemingway was raised in Illinois.After high school he reported for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers.In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home.In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson.The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign journalist.Advised and encouraged by other American writers in Paris-F.Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, he began to see his work appear in print there, and in 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called In Our Time, was published.A year later, he published The Sun Also Rises, a novel with which he scored his first solid success.

  The writing of books occupied Hemingway for most of the postwar years.He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for bullfighting(斗牛), fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing.Hemingway's love of Spain and bullfighting resulted in Death in the Afternoon(1932).His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927.The harvest of Hemingway's considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940).In the public view, however, the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) overshadowed such works.

  Shortly after he published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life.Hemingway lived in Florida and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where ended his life in the summer of 1961.

(1)

Which best arranges Hemingway's works in the correct order of time?

a.A Farewell to Arms

b.Men Without Women

c.The Old Man and the Sea

d.Death in the Afternoon

e.The Sun Also Rises

f.For Whom the Bell Tolls

[  ]

A.

e, a, b, f, d, c

B.

e, b, a, d, f, c

C.

b, a, d, f, e, c

D.

b, d, a, e, c, f

(2)

The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means that A Farewell to Arms ________.

[  ]

A.

was thought to be better than other works of Hemingway's

B.

was considered to make a show in Hemingway's life

C.

was only as excellent as the other works of Hemingway's

D.

was believed to be among the worst works of Hemingway's

(3)

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

[  ]

A.

Hemingway must have spent his childhood in Italy.

B.

Hemingway was an energetic writer with a wide interest.

C.

Hemingway's first book In Our Time was published before 1925.

D.

Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature just before his death.

(4)

It can be concluded from the passage that ________.

[  ]

A.

Hemingway produced most of his works in Africa

B.

Hemingway led a very happy life in his last few years

C.

most of Hemingway's works were based on his life experience

D.

Hemingway's writing style affected the life of later generations

Captain R.F.Scott, the famous Antarctic explorer, made two expeditions to the Antarctic.

His first expedition, in the ship Discovery, took place between 1901 and 1904 and was half funded by the government.On this trip, Scott and his party anchored Discovery in McMurdo Sound.Ross Island where they built a simple room.During the winter they conducted astronomical observations.In June the sun cannot be seen from within the Antarctic Circle and it is dark 24 hours day.In the spring, the weather improved and Scott, Dr Wilson and Ernest Shackleton set off.towards, the South Pole.They had some sledge (雪橇) dogs but didn't really know how to "use them, so they largely pulled the sledges themselves, Scott traveled slightly further, much further than anyone before but it was a terrible journey.

In 1910, he sailed on another scientific voyage to the Antarctic, this time in the Terra Nova, originally a whaler (捕鲸舰).This second expedition had less government support and many schools made collections for the expedition.While Scott was sailing south on his second expedition, he heard the news that the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), was going to Antarctica and was likely to try to reach the South Pole first.Although Amundsen was an experienced Arctic explorer, Scott was determined to get there first.He headed to the south early in 191l, and set out towards the Pole on November I from Ross Island during the second summer there.However, on January 18, 1912 when they arrived, they found Amundsen and his four Norwegian companions had got there just over a month before them.Scott's men had been beaten.On the way back, they encountered disaster and all of them died.Near the end of the Antarctic winter of 1912, their, bodies were found, Their journals and papers were recovered.

Following the news of his death, Scott became a British hero, a status maintained for more than 50 years.In the closing decades of the twentieth century, however, in a more skeptical age, the legend was reassessed.From a previously unassailable position, Scott became a figure of controversy, with questions raised about his competence and character.

60.What's the passage mainly about?

       A.Scott's competitors on the scientific voyage to the Antarctic.

       B.Humans' expeditions to the Antarctic in the 1900s.

       C.Scott's two expeditions to the Antarctic,

       D..Scott's achievements in discovering the world.

61.On the first expedition to the Antarctic, Scott and his party       __.

       A.did scientific research                    B.got support from many schools

       C.reached the South Pole                   D.learned how to use sledge dogs

62.What can we infer from the passage?

       A.Scott and his party encountered danger on the two expeditions to the Antarctic.

       B.The government didn't support Scott's second expedition to the Antarctic.

       C.Amundsen tried several times to reach the South Pole but he failed.

       D.Scott didn't make special preparations for his second expedition to the Antarctic.

63.The underlined word "unassailable" in the last paragraph, means"_      _".

       A.unclear                                       B.unconfirmed    

       C.unfortunate                                     D.undoubted   

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