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 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 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 lf 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 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 alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
【小题1】 How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?

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A. political    B. supported       C. gossip         D. set            E. contemporary

AB. literary   AC. alive          AD. significance   AE. enterprises    BC. figures

    It is impossible to imagine Paris without its cafés. The city has some 12,000 cafés varying in size, grandeur, and __41__. The cafés are like an extension of the French living room, a place to start and end the day, to __42__ and debate.

When did the cafés in France start? The oldest café in Paris is Le Procope. It was opened in 1686 by Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, the man who turned France into a coffee-drinking society. Le Procope attracted Paris’s political and __43__ elite, and in this way played an important part among the upper class. By the end of the 18th century, all of Paris was intoxicated with coffee and the city __44__ some 700 cafés. These were like all-male clubs, with many functioning as centers of __45__ life and discussion. By the 1840s the number of cafés had grown to 3,000. The men who gathered in these cafés and __46__ the theme of the times included journalists, playwrights and writers. Around the turn of the 20th century, the sidewalk cafés became the meeting halls for artists and literary __47__.

Nowadays in Paris cafés still play the role of picture windows for observing __48__ life. The artists gathered at the café may not be as great as those of the past, but faces worth watching are just the same. Linger a bit and you will see that the Parisian stereotypes are still __49__ and well. You’ll see the old men in navy berets; ultra-thin, bronzed women with hair dyed bright orange; and schoolchildren sharing an afternoon chocolate with their mothers. The café in Paris has always been a place for seeing and being seen.

Complete the passage by choosing the proper words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

       I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap year on either side, and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the  1  child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with  2  persons, and I think from the very start my literary  3  was mixed up with the feeling of  4  . I knew that I had a natural ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that it  5  

a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

However, the quantity of serious writing which I  6  all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, with my mother  7  it down on a piece of paper. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had “chair-like teeth”—a good enough expression. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished “nature poems”. I also, about twice,  8  a short story which was a  9  . That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.