题目内容
___Nobel Prize ___ Literature 2012 is awarded to Chinese writer Mo Yan, which inspires billions of Chinese people.
- A./; in
- B.The; for
- C.A; on
- D.The; of
试题分析:考查冠词和介词,考查冠词,the是定冠词;a/an不定冠词,诺贝尔奖是特指一种奖,所以加定冠词the,句子意思“2012的诺贝尔文学奖授予中国作家莫言,这激励了成千上万的中国人”
考点:考查冠词和介词
点评:冠词是常考内容,要知道它们的用法,the表示特指;a/an表示泛指,遇到此类题时,就很容易做出选择
In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy has chosen the British author Doris Lessing for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The selection of Doris Lessing for a Nobel was popular among the hundreds of journalists gathered for the announcement in Stockholm.
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl said with skepticism, fire and visionary power Lessing has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.
Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia - modern-day Iran - to British parents, moving as a child with her family to southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where she stayed in school only to the age of 14.
A year after moving to London, she published her first novel in 1950. The Grass is Singing examines unbridgeable racial conflict in colonial Africa through the eyes of a white farmer’s wife and her black servant.
A member of the British Communist Party during the 1950s and a campaigner against nuclear arms and South African apartheid, Lessing was for years banned from that country and from Rhodesia.
Her literary breakthrough came in 1962 with publication of The Golden Notebook, seen by many, though not necessarily Lessing, as a pioneering work of modern feminism. A disjointed study of the mind of the main character, Anna Wulf, the novel explores her thoughts about Africa, politics and communism, relationships with men and sex, and Jungian analysis and dream interpretation.
Lessing’s themes shifted to psychology in her works from the 1960s, and by the 1970s she was fascinated with the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism. Her turn toward science fiction with the Canopus series in the early 1980s was not warmly received by traditionalist critics, but she has continued to win new readers and numerous literary awards, including the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the Companion of Honour from the Royal Society of Literature, both in 2001.
Following the announcement, the Horace Engdahl told VOA why he was personally so pleased with Lessing’s selection.
"She is one of the truly great writers - of novels, short stories, fiction and non-fiction," Engdahl said. "She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold the principle of equality between the male and female experience, and she has given the impulse to numbers of other women writers. And she is really the mother of a school that is one of the most important in our contemporary literature."
At 87, Doris lessing is the oldest Nobel Literature laureate since the first prizes were awarded in 1901. Each Nobel Prize is this year accompanied by a check for approximately $1.4 million.
【小题1】How old was Doris Lessing when she published her first novel?
| A.14 | B.26 | C.31 | D.50 |
| A.It is mainly about racial conflict between the whites and the blacks in the US. |
| B.The main characters are a white farmer’s wife and her black servant. |
| C.It was published in Africa. |
| D.It was Doris Lessing’s most famous novel. |
| A.Journalists are very interested in the election of Doris Lessing’s for Nobel Prize. |
| B.Doris Lessing regard The Golden Notes as a pioneering work of feminism. |
| C.Doris Lessing has written about many different subjects. |
| D.Many writers have the courage to stick to the equality between the male and female experience. |
| A.institution for educating children |
| B.college or university |
| C.department of a university |
| D.group of writers, thinkers |
| A.Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for literature. |
| B.The greatest British female writer. |
| C.The oldest Nobel Prize winner. |
| D.2007 Nobel Prize announced in Stockholm. |
Most people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice. However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner.
Born in September, 1897, Irene Curies was the first of the Curies’ two daughters. Along with nine other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her mother was one of the teachers. She finished her high school education at the College of Sevigne in Paris.
Irene entered the University of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics. When World War I began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities (设备) to help save the lives of wounded soldiers. Irene continued the work by developing X-ray facilities in military hospitals in France and Belgium. Her services were recognized in the form of a Military Medal by the French government.
In 1918, Irene became her mother’s assistant at the Curie Institute. In December 1924, Frederic Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taught him the techniques required for his work. They soon fell in love and were married in 1926. Their daughter Helene was born in 1927 and their son Pierre five years later.
Like her mother, Irene combined family and career. Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel Prize, along with her husband, in 1935. Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leukemia because of her work with radioactivity (辐射能). Irene Joliot-Curie died from leukemia on March 17, 1956.
【小题1】Why was Irene Curie awarded a Military Medal?
| A.Because she received a degree in mathematics. |
| B.Because she contributed to saving the wounded. |
| C.Because she won the Nobel Prize with Frederic |
| D.Because she worked as a helper to her mother. |
| A.At the Curie Institute. | B.At the University of Paris. |
| C.At a military hospital. | D.At the College of Sevigne. |
| A.In 1932. | B.In 1927. | C.In 1897. | D.In 1926. |
| A.Irene worked with radioactivity. |
| B.Irene combined family and career. |
| C.Irene won the Nobel Prize once. |
| D.Irene died from leukemia. |