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  3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a native of Colombia, is widely【B1】______ helping to popularize "magical realism," a genre "in which the

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a native of Colombia, is widely【B1】______ helping to popularize "magical realism," a genre "in which the

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问题     Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a native of Colombia, is widely【B1】______ helping to popularize "magical realism," a genre "in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a 【B2】______ composed world of imagination," as the Nobel committee described it upon awarding him the prize for literature in 1982.
    Garcia Marquez spent his early childhood with his grandparents. Both his grandparents were excellent storytellers, and Garcia Marquez【B3】______ in their tales. From his grandfather he learned of military men, Colombian history and the terrible burden of killing: from his grandmother came folk tales,【B4】______ and ghosts among the living. His grandparents’ influence is【B5】______ in Garcia Marquez’s works, particularly One Hundred Years of Solitude.
    In 1936 Garcia Marquez’s grandfather died and he returned to his parents. After finishing high school, he went off to college with dreams of becoming a writer. His parents, on the other hand, had plans for him to become a lawyer. Writing ended up taking precedence: When a civil war broke out, Garcia Marquez started【B6】______ stories to a local newspaper and eventually became a columnist. He had also been exposed to writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and especially William Faulkner. In the mid-1950s, Garcia Marquez left Colombia for Europe, a move partly provoked by a story he’d written that was【B7】______ the government. The distance, he later said, helped shape his【B8】______ on Latin American politics.
    For years, Garcia Marquez had been writing and publishing【B9】______. But it wasn’t until 1967 with the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude that he【B10】______ to a wide audience.
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答案contributing
解析 contributing意为“投稿”，注意该词在started之后，应使用动名词形式。
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