题目内容
Hemingway was one of the famous writers. He was born in America in 1899. His father was a doctor and loved sports very much, and his mother taught music. Among the six children in the family, Hemingway was the second oldest.
Hemingway had written many books in his life. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous and also my favorite. It came out in 1952. The main character in the book is a fisherman. He is an old man and fishes alone. People think he is a man with bad luck, because he doesn’t get a fish in eighty-four days. Every evening, he comes home with his empty boat. But the old man believes himself. Then on the eighty-fifth day the man takes a big fish. Although he meets a lot of trouble, the old man never gives up.
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76. Hemingway’s father was a fan of _____.
A. books B. sports C. mus
ic D. art
77. The Old Man and the Sea was published(出版) in _____.
A. 1852 B. 1899 C. 1952 D. 1989
78. The old man doesn’t get a fish until the _____ day.
A. fifteenth B. eightieth C. eighty-fourth D. eighty-fifth
79. What does the old man do when he can’t get a fish?
A. He has to look for food somewhere else. B. He doesn’t give up fishing.
C. He doesn’t fish any more. D. He has nothing to do.
80. What can we learn from the old man?
A. When we are in trouble, we should not give up.
B. When we want to fish, we can get a big fish.
C. We can do everything well because we are young.
D. We can live a better life if we like fishing.
BCDBA
“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.
任务：阅读上文，根据其内容填空。
| The numbers of writers are mentioned in the passage. | 【小题1】______________________ |
| Nationality | Jane Austen was from【小题2】_______ |
| Jane Austen’s famous novel | Pride and Prejudice |
| Victor Hugo’s famous novel | 【小题3】______________ |
| The winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1954 | 【小题4】__________________ |