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  3. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the【B

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the【B

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问题     Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the【B1】______ spokesperson for the Lost Generation and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954). His writing style and personal life【B2】______ a【B3】______ influence on American writers of his time.
    Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in a doctor’s family in Oak Park, in the【B4】______ of Chicago. The novel【B5】______ established Hemingway’s【B6】______ was The Sun Also Rises (1926). The story described a group of 【B7】______ Americans and Britons living in France. That is to【B8】______, it described the life of the members of the【B9】______ Lost Generation after World War I. Hemingway’s second major novel was A Farewell to Arms (1929) , a love story 【B10】______ in wartime Italy. That novel was 【B11】______ by Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Green Hills of Africa (1935). His two【B12】______ of short stories Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933) established his fame【B13】______ the master of short stories.
    In the late 1930’s, Hemingway began to express【B14】______ about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937) 【B15】______ economic and political injustices. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) 【B16】______ the conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In 1952, Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea, for【B17】______ he won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, Hemingway was【B18】______ the Nobel Prize of Literature. Later, being【B19】______ and ill, he shot【B20】______ on July 2,1961.
【B6】
选项 A、institution
B、villa
C、reputation
D、pursuit
答案C
解析 本题考查点是语境推断。本题空白处前面的信息内容“The novel that established Hemingway’s ______ …(确立海明威的……的小说)”提示本题应该选择C(reputation声誉)，因为这样才能完整表达全文中心主旨句(首段第一句)的内容(海明威是美国现代文学史上最重要的作家之一)。
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