Question

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899—July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. His writing style had a strong influence on 20^th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image(形象) affected later generations. Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Hemingway was raised in Illinois. After high school he reported for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign journalist. Advised and encouraged by other American writers in Paris—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, he began to see his work appear in print there, and in 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called In Our Time, was published. A year later, he published The Sun Also Rises, a novel with which he scored his first solid success. The writing of books occupied Hemingway for most of the postwar years. He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for bullfighting(斗牛), fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing. Hemingway’s love of Spain and bullfighting resulted in Death in the Afternoon (1932). His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927. The harvest of Hemingway’s considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In the public view, however, the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) overshadowed such works.

Shortly after he published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway lived in Florida and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where ended his life in the summer of 1961.

1.Which best arranges Hemingway’s works in the correct order of time?
a. A Farewell to Arms                            b. Men Without Women
c. The Old Man and the Sea              d. Death in the Afternoon
e. The Sun Also Rises                            f. For Whom the Bell Tolls
A. e, a, b, f, d, c              B. e, b, a, d, f, c             

C. b, a, d, f, e, c                D. b, d, a, e, c, f

2.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means that A Farewell to Arms         .
A. was thought to be better than other works of Hemingway’s
B. was considered to make a show in Hemingway’s life
C. was only as excellent as the other works of Hemingway’s
D. was believed to be among the worst works of Hemingway’s

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Hemingway must have spent his childhood in Italy.
B. Hemingway was an energetic writer with a wide interest.
C. Hemingway’s first book In Our Time was published before 1925.
D Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature just before his death.

4.It can be concluded from the passage that           .
A. Hemingway produced most of his works in Africa
B. Hemingway led a very happy life in his last few years
C. most of Hemingway’s works were based on his life experience
D. Hemingway’s writing style affected the life of later generations

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：文章介绍海明威是一位兴趣广泛的精力充沛的作者，一生写了很多名著，他的冒险生活和公共形象也对后代有很大影响。

1.排序题：第二段的作品后面都有年代，依据年份可知顺序是：e. The Sun Also Rises b. Men Without Womena. A Farewell to Arms d. Death in the Afternoon f. For Whom the Bell Tollsc. The Old Man and the Sea 选B

2.句意理解题：从第二段的内容可知作者提到海明威的很多作品，而A Farewell to Arms是比这些都好，可知 A Farewell to Arms 比海明威的其他任何作品都好，选A

3.细节题：从文章第二段的句子：He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for bullfighting(斗牛), fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing.可知海明威是兴趣广泛的精力充沛的作者，选B

4.推理题：从文章第二段的句子：He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for bullfighting(斗牛), fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing.可以推断出大部分海明威的作品是来源于他的生活，选C

考点：考查人物传记类短文