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.
【B13】

选项 A、for
B、of
C、by
D、as

答案D

解析 本题考查点是一词多义。本题的测试点是介词“as”一词的常用词义之一——“作为”。本题空白处前后的信息内容“his fame(他的声誉)”和“the master of short stories (短篇小说大师)”均提示本题应选用D(as作为)。本词的另一个常用词义是“和……一样,如同”。
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