Question

【題目】 Garcia Marquez(加西亞馬爾克斯) was born in Colombia in 1928. As one of the most famous writers, Garcia Marquez has been ______ regarded as “a giant of 20th century literature”.

Soon after he was born, Garcia Marquez was sent to ______ with his grandparents. He had always wanted to write a novel based on his grandparents' house where he ______. However, he couldn't find a proper tone(語氣) and had to put off the ______. But one day an answer came into his mind while he was ______ his family to Acapulco. Then he turned the car around at once and his family ______ home. He started writing immediately. He even asked his wife to sell his car ______ his family would have money to live on while he wrote. But writing the novel was far more ______ than he had expected, and he wrote every day for eighteen months. His wife had to ask for ______ on credit(賒購)．

Luckily, when the book was finally published in 1967, it became his most commercially(商業(yè)地) successful novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude(《百年孤獨》). Then it was _____ in English in 1970 and won many prizes in different countries. In fact, the novel is so ______ that over 50 million copies have been sold so far. It tells the story of the small and ______ town of Macondo which is separated from the outside world and its troubled history over a ______. William Kennedy called the novel “the first piece of literature that should be read ______ the entire human race(全人類)”．

Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. In April, 2014, he _____ at the age of 86. The whole world paused to remember the cultural giant.

【1】A.badlyB.terriblyC.hardlyD.widely

【2】A.liveB.studyC.discussD.communicate

【3】A.put upB.took upC.grew upD.got up

【4】A.questionB.ideaC.journeyD.career

【5】A.sendingB.invitingC.followingD.driving

【6】A.leftB.cleanedC.decoratedD.returned

【7】A.unlessB.so thatC.thoughD.until

【8】A.interestingB.expensiveC.difficultD.boring

【9】A.foodB.adviceC.troubleD.permission

【10】A.publishedB.spokenC.coveredD.shared

【11】A.rareB.shockingC.popularD.unusual/span>

【12】A.noisyB.pleasantC.crowdedD.lonely

【13】A.monthB.yearC.weekD.century

【14】A.amongB.forC.byD.to

【15】A.gave awayB.got throughC.took overD.passed away

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】C

【4】B

【5】D

【6】D

【7】B

【8】C

【9】A

【10】A

【11】C

【12】D

【13】D

【14】C

【15】D

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文，主要介紹了20世紀(jì)文學(xué)巨匠、諾貝爾文學(xué)獎獲得者、小說《百年孤獨》的作者加西亞·馬爾克斯的生平。

【1】句意：作為最著名的作家之一，加西亞·馬爾克斯被廣泛認(rèn)為是20世紀(jì)文壇的巨人。

考查副詞。badly副詞，糟糕地；terribly副詞，可怕地；hardly副詞，幾乎不；widely副詞，廣泛地。根據(jù)“As one of the most famous writers…”作為最著名的作家之一……，可知最著名的作家，是被大家廣泛地認(rèn)為是文壇巨人。widely符合題意，故選D。

【2】句意：加西亞·馬爾克斯出生后不久，就被送去和他的祖父母住在一起。

考查動詞。live動詞，生活；study動詞，學(xué)習(xí)；discuss動詞，討論；communicate動詞，交流。根據(jù)“He had always wanted to write a novel based on his grandparents' house where he __3__”他一直想寫一部以他祖父母的房子為基礎(chǔ)的小說，他在那里……”可知他和祖父母生活在一起。 live符合題意。故選A。

【3】句意：他一直想寫一部基于他祖父母家的小說，他在那里長大。

考查動詞短語。put up提供，建造；took up拿起；grew up長大；got up起床。根據(jù)“Soon after he was born, Garcia Marquez was sent to __2__ with his grandparents.”加西亞·馬爾克斯出生后不久，就被送去和他的祖父母住在一起。可知，他和祖父母住在一起，并在那里長大。故選C。

【4】句意：但是，他找不到一個合適的語氣，不得不推遲這個想法。

考查名詞。question名詞，問題；idea名詞，想法；journey名詞，旅行；career名詞，職業(yè)。根據(jù)“He had always wanted to write a novel based on his grandparents' house…”他總是想要寫一部關(guān)于他的祖父母的房子的小說。可知，這是作者的一個想法，idea符合題意，故選B。

【5】句意：但是有一天，當(dāng)他開車帶著家人去阿卡普爾科的時候，一個答案出現(xiàn)在他的腦海里。

考查動詞。sending動詞，發(fā)送；inviting動詞，邀請；following動詞，跟隨；driving動詞，開車。根據(jù)“Then he turned the car around at once …”然后他立刻把車掉頭……，可知他此刻正在開車。driving符合題意，故選D。

【6】句意：然后他立刻把車掉頭，他的家人回家了。

考查動詞。left動詞，離開；cleaned動詞，清掃；decorated動詞，裝飾；returned動詞，返回。根據(jù)本句句意可知他調(diào)轉(zhuǎn)車頭，家人返回家里。returned符合題意，故選D。

【7】句意：他甚至要求他的妻子賣掉他的車，這樣他寫作的時候家里就有錢生活。

考查連詞。unless連詞，如果不，引導(dǎo)條件狀語從句；so that以便，引導(dǎo)目的狀語從句。though盡管，引導(dǎo)讓步狀語從句；until直到，引導(dǎo)時間狀語從句。根據(jù)句意可知，他賣掉自己的車的目的就是為了讓家人在自己寫作的時候有錢生活。故此處表示目的，是目的狀語從句。故選B。

【8】句意：但是，寫這本小說比他預(yù)想的要困難得多，他堅持了18個月，每天都寫作。

考查形容詞。interesting形容詞，有趣的；expensive形容詞，昂貴的；difficult形容詞，困難的；boring形容詞，無聊的。根據(jù)“and he wrote every day for eighteen months.”可知，他寫小說時間很長，而且每天都寫，所以很困難。故選C。

【9】句意：他的妻子不得不賒賬去買食物。

考查名詞。food食物；advice建議；trouble麻煩；permission許可。根據(jù)“He even asked his wife to sell his car __7__ his family would have money to live on while he wrote.”可知，他讓妻子賣了車，所以他沒有其他的錢買食物，妻子賒賬買食物。food符合題意，故選A。

【10】句意：1970年，該書以英文出版，并在不同的國家贏得了許多獎項。

考查動詞。published被出版；spoken被說；covered 被覆蓋；shared被分享。根據(jù)“when the book was finally published in 1967,”可知這本書在1967年被出版，故在1970年再次出版。published符合題意，故選A。

【11】句意：事實上，這本小說非常受歡迎，到目前為止已經(jīng)賣出了5000多萬冊。

考查形容詞。 rare形容詞，稀有的；shocking形容詞，令人震驚的；popular形容詞，流行的；unusual形容詞，不尋常的。根據(jù)“over 50 million copies have been sold so far”可知，這本小說是非常流行的。故選C。

【12】句意：它講述了一個與世隔絕的小鎮(zhèn)馬孔多的故事……

考查形容詞。noisy形容詞，吵鬧的；pleasant形容詞，令人愉快的；crowded形容詞，擁擠的；lonely形容詞，偏僻的。根據(jù)“…which is separated from the outside world”可知這個小鎮(zhèn)是與世隔絕的，因此它是偏僻的。故選D。

【13】句意：它講述了一個與世隔絕的小鎮(zhèn)馬孔多的故事以及它一個多世紀(jì)的動蕩歷史。

考查名詞。month名詞，月份；year名詞，年；week名詞，星期；century名詞，世紀(jì)。根據(jù)“One Hundred Years of Solitude”提示可知，此處指小鎮(zhèn)的百年歷史，故century符合題意，故選D。

【14】句意：威廉·肯尼迪稱這部小說是應(yīng)該被全人類閱讀的第一部文學(xué)作品。

考查介詞。among在三者或三者以上之間；for為了；by 被；to朝，向。根據(jù)本句句意，威廉·肯尼迪認(rèn)為這本書應(yīng)該為全人類閱讀，本句中包含定語從句，且從句主語和動詞read的關(guān)系為被動關(guān)系，需要填寫介詞by，表示“被”的含義。故選C。

【15】句意：2014年4月，他去世，享年86歲。

考查動詞短語。gave away放棄；got through結(jié)束，通過；took over接管；passed away去世。根據(jù)“The whole world paused to remember the cultural giant.”全世界都停下來紀(jì)念這位文化巨人�？芍�由于作家去世了，所以全世界的人們都紀(jì)念他。故選D。