文章大意:本文是一篇新闻报道。文章主要报道了Gurnah获得诺贝尔文学奖的相关情况。报道中介绍了Gurnah的生平背景、文学成就、作品主题、语言运用以及获奖后的反响等。
1 . Gurnah, growing up in Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
He is the first Black writer _________ the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and some observers saw his _________ as a long delayed corrective (矫正)after years of European and American Nobel laureates (获得者). In his 10 novels, Gurnah has often explored the _________ of exile(流放), identity and belonging. They _________“Memory of Departure” “Pilgrims Way” and “Dottie,” which all deal with the immigrant(移民)experience in Britain.
Gurnah’s first language is Swahili, but he _________ English as his literary language. He drew on the imagery and stories from the Quran, _________ from Arabic and Persian poetry, particularly “The Arabian Nights.” The news of Gumah’s Nobel _________ by fellow novelists and academics who have long argued that his _________ deserve a wider audience.
Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, which is now _________ of Tanzania, in 1948. Then, in 1964, he fled to England. __________ , poor, homesick, he began to write scraps(片段)in his diary, then __________ entries, then stories about other people. In his 20s, he started __________ fiction. Then he finished his first novel, “Memory of Departure,” about a young man who flees a failed uprising, at the same time he was writing his Ph. D. dissertation(论文). __________, he became a professor of English.
Though Gurnah hasn’t lived in Tanzania since he was a __________, his homeland always inspires him of his imagination. __________, he said “my homeland always asserts myself in my imagination, even when I deliberately try to set my stories elsewhere”.
1. A.to confirm | B.to receive | C.to search | D.to appreciate |
2. A.section | B.selection | C.collection | D.consultation |
3. A.themes | B.opinions | C.passages | D.suggestions |
4. A.explode | B.conclude | C.provide | D.include |
5. A.adopted | B.advised | C.adapted | D.affected |
6. A.as much as | B.as well as | C.as long as | D.as often as |
7. A.was awarded | B.was discussed | C.was celebrated | D.was suspected |
8. A.jobs | B.works | C.labors | D.careers |
9. A.part | B.name | C.home | D.country |
10. A.Admirable | B.Respectable | C.Fashionable | D.Miserable |
11. A.higher | B.stronger | C.heavier | D.longer |
12. A.reading | B.hearing | C.writing | D.watching |
13. A.Frontwards | B.Forwards | C.Backwards | D.Afterwards |
14. A.writer | B.teenager | C.scholar | D.professor |
15. A.As a result | B.At the same time | C.On the other hand | D.In his own word |