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  3. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the【C

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the【C

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问题     Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the【C1】______spokesperson for the Lost Generation and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954). His writing style and personal life【C2】______a【C3】______influence on American writers of his time.
    Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in a doctor’s family in Oak Park, in the【C4】______of Chicago. The novel【C5】______established Hemingway’s【C6】______was The Sun Also Rises (1926). The story described a group of【C7】______Americans and Britons living in France. That is to【C8】______, it described the life of the members of the【C9】______Lost Generation after World War I. Hemingway’s second major novel was A Farewell to Arms (1929), a love story【C10】______in wartime Italy. That novel was【C11】______by Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Green Hills of Africa (1935). His two【C12】______of short stories Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933) established his fame【C13】______the master of short stories.
    In the late 1930’s, Hemingway began to express【C14】______about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937)【C15】______economic and political injustices. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)【C16】______the conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In 1952, Hemingway published em>The Old Man and the Sea, for【C17】______he won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, Hemingway was【C18】______the Nobel Prize of Literature. Later, being【C19】______and ill, he shot【C20】______on July 2, 1961.
【C1】
选项 A、outstanding
B、monotonous
C、awkward
D、modest
答案A
解析 本题考查点是逆向推断。本题空白处后面的信息内容“and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for literature(第六个获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国人)”提示本题应该选择A(outstanding突出的)这个褒义词，以便使本句所表达的内容保持前后一致。
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