【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent andgrammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fil in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

American Writer——Toni Morrison

American writer Toni Morrison was born in 1931 in Ohio. She was raised in an African American family    1    (fill) with songs and stories of Southern myths(神话), which later shaped her essays. Her happy family life     2    (lead) to her excellent performance in school, despite the atmosphere of racism in the society.

    3    graduating from college, Morrison started to work as a teacher and got married in 1958. Several years later, her marriage began to fail. For a temporary escape, she joined a small writers group, in     4    each member was required to bring a story or poem for discussion. She wrote a story based on the life of a girl she knew in childhood who had prayed to God for blue eyes. The story was well received by the group,     5    then she put it away,     6    (think) she was done with it.

In 1964, Morrison got divorced and devoted herself to writing. One day, she dusted off the story she had written for the writers’ group and decided to make     7     into a novel. She drew on her memories from childhood and expanded upon them using her imagination so that the character developed a life of their own. The Bluest Eye was eventually published in 1970. From 1970 to 1992, Morison published five    8    (many) novels.

In her novels, Morrison brings in different elements of the African American past, their struggles, problems and cultural memory. In Song of Solomon, for example, Morrison tells the story of an Africa-American man and his search for identity in his culture. The novels and other works won her several prizes. In 1993, Morison received     9     Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the eighth woman and the first African- American woman     10    (win) the honor.

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I wake up to the sound of the wind buffeting the cloth of my tent. Although the sun is     1    (bright) shining,     2     is impossible for me to tell whether it is morning or night. I’m above the Arctic Circle,     3     the sun never sets in summer.

Sarek National Park is located in the remote far north of Sweden. Around 9,000 years ago, the vast sheets of ice melted in Sarek,leaving behind about 100 glaciers. Soon after, reindeer began to arrive, and then the Sami people followed, who made Sarek their home. Today, all new development     4    (ban) within park boundaries, and only the Sami are allowed to continue their     5    (tradition) way of life in the park.

For hundreds of years,     6    (look) after reindeer was a way of life for the Sami. Since reindeer were always     7     the move, the Sami would accompany them. Nowadays, most Sami live     8     modern life in their own house. Only a few still follow their reindeer into the     9    (valley) of Sarek. I am not a Sami,     10     in Sarek I have adopted some of their habits.

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Hero writer who wrote of heroes has passed away

“    1     there are Chinese speakers,there are his readers.”

That sentence highlights the huge influence of Louis Cha Leungyung, better     2    (know) by his pen name Jin Yong, one of the most     3    (influence) Chinese novelists. Over three hundred million copies of his books have been sold in the Chinese-speaking world alone.

In their condolences (哀悼) to his family, many people called Cha a “hero” even though he considered     4     (he) a writer of hero stories.

That’s because of the humanistic concerns in both his novels and his newspaper articles. In all his martial arts stories, he shows a strong anti-war tendency. In The Legend of the Condor Heroes,     5     novel which impresses us     6    (deep), he wrote how Genghis Khan was moved by the hero’s words and regretted his killings before his     7    (die).

“He has mercy for everybody in this mortal (凡人) world,” Wang Xiaolei,owner of a WeChat public account that specializes in analysis of Cha’s works,     8    (write) in his condolences.

    9     their popularity, only The Deer and the Cauldron as well as other three novels     10    (translate) into English.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1适当单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式。

Chinese writer Hai Ya’s The Space-Time Painter won the Hugo Award (雨果奖) for Best Novelette at the 81st World Science Fiction Convention,     1     (hold)in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu. He became     2     third Chinese writer to win a Hugo Award after Liu Cixin in 2015 and Hao Jingfang in 2016.

“The Space-Time Painter”     3     (publish)in 2022. It was inspired by the life experience of the     4    (talent)Chinese painter Wang Ximeng during the Northern Song period(960-1127),     5     created the12-meter-long landscape painting “One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains.”

It tells a story about the political power struggle of the time combined     6     diverse elements such as Chinese traditional culture, history and science fiction. “Our culture and traditions are     7     (close) connected with our lives” said Hai, noting that Chinese sci-fi writers are becoming more confident in showcasing native culture and narratives. “I’m very happy that this work has received     8     (recognize), and as for my personally most satisfying work, it will always be the next one,” said the award winner.

    9     (comment)on the Chinese winners of the Hugo Awards, sci-fi writer Han Song wrote on Sina Weibo that it shows that a new force of Chinese sci-fi     10     (rise), and sci-fi has become a name card and a language for China to communicate with the world.