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【題目】It’s hard to find Alice Munro in the media. Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight. On Dec 29, she still didn't seek the spotlight（聚光燈）when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.

In Munro's eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas. So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people. She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with. She writes about the ordinary things in the village－fox forming, trees filled in the Ontario wilderness, poor country alcohol and long last illnesses. Above all, she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune. She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic. Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.

Runaway, one of Munro’s representative works, is a good example of her writing style. One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark. The story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee. The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love. It is about lost children and lots of chances that we can all find in life. There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart.

Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor. On Oct. 10, 2013, the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the “master of the contemporary short story”.

【1】We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro_________.

A. didn't get on well with the media

B. remained modest though very successful

C. didn’t value the title of Women of the Year

D. was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize

【2】What makes Alice Munro’s stories fascinating according to the text?

A. Her writing techniques. B. The complicated plots.

C. The humorous language. D. Her rich imagination.

【3】What is the text mainly about?

A. Alice Munro and her hometown. B. The awards Alice Munro won.

C. Alice Munro and her writing style. D. Alice Munro’s literary life.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】B

【解析】文章主要介紹了作家Alice Munro，她獲得了2013年諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)，卻很少在媒體上露面。在寫作方面，她從居住的小城鎮(zhèn)中尋找素材，善于在平凡生活中發(fā)現(xiàn)不平凡的人和事。

【1】推理判斷題。由第一段可知，Alice Munro這個(gè)作者，在得了諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)后依然很少出現(xiàn)在聚光燈下， 甚至在登上時(shí)代雜志評選榜后沒有在媒體上露面。由此可以判斷出選項(xiàng)B，Alice Munro雖然很有名氣，但仍很謙虛。

【2】推理判斷題。A. Her writing techniques. 寫作技巧 B. The complicated plots. 復(fù)雜的情節(jié) C. The humorous language. 幽默的語言 D. Her rich imagination. 豐富的想象 題目是：Alice Munro的書因?yàn)槭裁炊�出類拔萃？第二段最后一�?/span>Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.意為“她精準(zhǔn)的語言、對細(xì)節(jié)的挖掘和她敘事的邏輯讓她的故事受歡迎。”這句話指向的是A，寫作技巧。

【3】主旨大意題。文章主體部分，第2、3段，介紹了Alice Munro的寫作取材、寫作風(fēng)格和手法，接著以Alice Munro的代表作為例，介紹了Alice Munro作品的主要內(nèi)涵和特點(diǎn)。我們可以看出，文章用較大篇幅介紹Alice Munro的寫作風(fēng)格，因此應(yīng)選C。