3.Ernest Hemingway was not only a commanding figure in 20th-century literature,but was also a pack rat.He saved even his old passports and used bullfight tickets,leaving behind one of the longest paper trails of any author.
"Ernest Hemingway:Between Two Wars,"which opens on Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum,is the first major museum exhibition devoted to Hemingway and his work.The largest and most interesting section focuses on the'20s,Hemingway's Paris years,and reveals a writer we might have been in danger of forgetting:Hemingway before he became Hemingway.
The exhibition does not fail to include pictures of the bearded,manly,Hem.He's shown posing with some kudu he has just shot in Africa and on the bridge of his beloved fishing boat,the Pilar,with Carlos Gutiérrez,the fisherman who became the model for"The Old Man and the Sea."But the first photo the viewer sees is a big blowup of a handsome,clean-shaven,19-year-old standing on crutches.This is from the summer of 1918,when Hemingway was recovering from wounds at the Red Cross hospital in Milan and trying to turn his wartime experiences into fiction.
The evidence at this exhibition suggests that,in the early days,he often wrote in pencil,mostly in cheap notebooks but sometimes on whatever paper came to hand.The first draft of the short story"Soldier's Home"was written on sheets he appeared to have snatched from a telegraph office.The impression you get is of a young writer seized by inspiration and sometimes barreling ahead without an entirely clear sense of where he is going.
F.Scott Fitzgerald (some of whose letters with Hemingway is also on view) famously urged him to cut the first two chapters of"The Sun Also Rises,"complaining about the"elephantine facetiousness"of the beginning,and Hemingway obliged,getting rid of a clunky opening that now seems almost"meta".In 1929,in a nine-page penciled critique,Fitzgerald also suggested numerous revisions for"A Farewell to Arms."Hemingway took some of these,but less graciously,and soon afterward his friendship with Fitzgerald came to an end.
The papers at the Morgan show a Hemingway who is not always sure of himself.There are running lists of stories he kept fiddling with,and there are lists and lists of possible titles,including the 45he considered for"Farewell"and 47different endings for the novel.
In display case after display case,you see Hemingway during his Paris years inventing and reinventing himself,discovering as he goes along just what kind of writer he wants to be.In a moving 1925letter to his parents,who refused to read"In Our Time,"his second story collection,he writes:"You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not just to describe life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive.So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing.You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful."
By the time the Second World War broke out,Hemingway had solidified into the iconic figure we now remember:Papa.Even J.D.Salinger calls him this.And a blustery,cranky Hemingway appears in 1949when aboard the Pilar he grabs an old fishing diary and begins scrawling an angry letter to Harold Ross,the editor of The New Yorker,complaining about Alfred Kazin's review of"Across the River and Into the Trees,"not,in truth,a very good book.But,Hemingway,often drinking and depressed,didn't know it,his best work was behind him by then.
66.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined words"a pack rat"(para.1)?D
A.a person who enjoys collecting things
B.a person who cannot be relied on
C.a person who likes to collect rubbish
D.a person who doesn't waste anything
67.How many of Hemingway's works are mentioned in this passage?C
A.4 B.5 C.7 D.6
68.We can conclude from the Morgan show that sometimes Hemingway was a personA
A.stubborn but full of enthusiasm about love
B.unconfident but full of inspirations
C.casual but full of heroism
D.bad-tempered but full of strange habits
69.What does the writer truly mean by saying"Hemingway before he became Hemingway"?D
A.Hemingway wrote many masterpieces before he killed himself.
B.Hemingway was once a war correspondent before he became a famous writer.
C.Hemingway devoted all his strengths to writing before he won the Nobel Prize.
D.Hemingway kept exploring the world and adjusting himself before he became a commanding figure in literature.
70.According to the Morgan show,readers are likely to seeAin Hemingway's works.
①tough men who can't be defeated
②anti-war fighters
③the dark side of the world as well as its beauty
④love affairs between a man and a woman
⑤the story of a family business
A.①⑤B.②④C.①③D.③⑤
分析 本文主要講述了作家海明威的生平,介紹了他的主要作品與突出的生活經歷,在各種磨難中他仍能保持初心,堅持寫人們喜歡的作品,并寫出了人們對海明威的高度評價及贊揚.
解答 66.D細節(jié)理解題,由第一段最后一行He saved even his old passports and used bullfight tickets,leaving behind one of the longest paper trails of any author.可知海明威喜歡收集各種東西,故選D
67.C細節(jié)考察題,查找原文"The Old Man and the Sea.","Soldier's Home","The Sun Also Rises,","A Farewell to Arms.","Farewell","In Our Time,"共六本書,故選C
68.A細節(jié)理解題,由第五段最后一句可知There are running lists of stories he kept fiddling with,and there are lists and lists of possible titles,including the 45 he considered for"Farewell"and 47 different endings for the novel.海明威是一個不自信但是充滿靈感的人,故選A
69.D理解推斷類,由第二段"Ernest Hemingway:Between Two Wars,"which opens on Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum,is the first major museum exhibition devoted to Hemingway and his work.The largest and most interesting section focuses on the'20s,Hemingway's Paris years,and reveals a writer we might have been in danger of forgetting:Hemingway before he became Hemingway.在海明威成為我們熟悉的海明威之前他一直在探索世界,故選D
70.A細節(jié)理解題,由第七段"You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not just to describe life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive.So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing.You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful."可知,觀眾很可能會看到不會被打敗的,在黑暗中仍美麗的海明威的作品,故選A
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