【題目】閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的A.B.C和D項(xiàng)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

Tony Morrison has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Tony Morrison is sixty-two years old. She was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is the daughter of farmers who moved to Ohio from the southern state of Alabama. She studied at Harvard University in Washington D.C. and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Her first success came in 1970 with the book called The Bluest Eye. It tells the story of a young black girl in a society where golden hair and blue eyes are considered beautiful. Her next book was called Sulla. It tells the story of two black girls and pain in their lives as they grow up in a small town in Ohio. Her book The Song of Solomon is about a black man who tries to forget his past as a slave and begin a new life. And Tar Baby explores the relationship of a black man and a black woman. In the story the writer argues that black men and women can not get along with each other until they join together to fight racial hatred(種族仇視).

Miss Morrison won America’s highest prize for literature, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her book Beloved. It is a powerful story of a slave woman who kills her baby daughter so she will not grow up to be a slave, too. Her latest book Jazz was published last year. It tells about the sad stories in the lives of a black man and woman who moved from a small town in the south to New York City. It took place in the 1920s,a time when Jazz music became popular in America.

Tony Morrison is a professor in literature at Princeton University in New Jersey. She says the most wonderful thing about winning the Nobel Prize is that it has finally been awarded to an African American writer. The prize is valued at more than 800,000 dollars. It will be awarded on Dec.10 in Stockholm in Sweden.

【1】From the passage, we can see _________.

A. Morrison is the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize

B. The Bluest Eye tells the story of two black girls

C. the Blacks lived a hard life

D. Morrison studied at Cornell University and is now still working there

【2】Morrison has been awarded the Nobel Prize perhaps because _________.

A. she is an important professor in literature

B. her books are widely read

C. what she has written attracted people’s attention to the Blacks’ life

D. she mostly writes about the black women

【3】How many books she has written are mentioned in the passage?

A. Five. B. Six.

C. Seven. D. Eight.

【4】Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Morrison’s father once lived in Alabama.

B. When jazz was popular in the United States.

C. When her ancestors first came to the U.S.

D. When and where the Nobel Prize will be given to her.

【答案】

【1】C

【2】C

【3】B

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析:這是一篇說(shuō)明文。文章主要介紹了諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)得主Morrison的經(jīng)歷、作品以及她的作品所產(chǎn)生的效應(yīng)。

【1】C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Morrison所寫(xiě)的所有書(shū)的介紹可知,黑人們都過(guò)著艱難的生活。

【2】C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Morrison所著書(shū)中的黑人都有著悲慘的命運(yùn),可推知她的書(shū)所產(chǎn)生的效應(yīng)。

【3】B。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文中總共提到了六本她寫(xiě)的書(shū),分別是The Bluest Eye,SullaThe Song of Solomon,Tar BabyBeloved,Jazz。

【4】C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。選項(xiàng)A、BD分別可在文章第一段、第三段、第四段找到依據(jù)。

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