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 approached such joy that I could not 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 Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly 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 reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first mental breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novel Tender Is the Night in 1934. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Fitzgerald died in 1940, before he could complete the novel The Love of the Last Tycoon.
64. How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
A. 5. B. 6. C. 7. D. 8.
65. 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 the novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He tried 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
66. From the passage we can learn that .
A. The Beautiful and Damned was Fitzgerald’s first novel
B. the work The Great Gatsby brought Fitzgerald great fame and fortune
C. Fitzgerald managed to recorder his life during the 1920s
D. Fitzgerald’s wife broke down more than once
67. The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about .
A. Fitzgerald’s struggling with alcoholism
B. the reasons for Fitzgerald’s death
C. comments on Fitzgerald’s literary contributions
D. Fitzgerald’s family life
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