首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Man of Few Words Everyone chases success, but not all of us want to be famous. South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee
Man of Few Words Everyone chases success, but not all of us want to be famous. South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee
admin
2014-09-13
87
问题
Man of Few Words
Everyone chases success, but not all of us want to be famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is【C1】______for keeping to himself. When the 63-year-old man was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature, reporters were warned that they would find him*’particularly difficult to【C2】______".
Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed【C3】______by the news that he won the US $1.3 million prize.
"It came as a complete surprise. I wasn’ t even aware they were due to make the announcement, " he said. His【C4】______of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10. But despite being described as【C5】______to track down, the critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to an English-speaking family, Coetzee【C6】______his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel" Waiting for the Barbarians". He【C7】______his place among the world’ s leading writers with two Booker prize victories, Britain’ s highest honour for novels. He first【C8】______in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace.
A major theme in his work is South Africa’ s former apartheid system, which divided whites from blacks. 【C9】______with the problems of violence, crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid【C10】______within.
" I have always been more interested in the past than the future, "he said in a rare interview.
’’The past【C11】______its shadow over the present. I hope I have made one or two people think 【C12】______about whether they want to forget the past completely. "In fact, this purity in his writing seems to be【C13】______in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian, a cyclist rather than a motorist and he doesn’ t drink alcohol. But what he has【C14】______to literature, culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up. " In looking at weakness and failure in life, " the Nobel prize judging panel said, " Coetzee’ s work【C15】______the divine spark in man. "
【C6】
选项
A、forced
B、caused
C、made
D、did
答案
C
解析
make a breakthrough是固定搭配,意思是“取得突破”。C项符合句意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/sSUd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语综合类A级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语综合类A级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
Shewasoneoftheleadingwritersinherage.
AIngvarKamprad-abornbusinessmanBSuccessbroughtbytheintroductionofshowroomsCTheoriginofIKEADSpecializationi
AIngvarKamprad-abornbusinessmanBSuccessbroughtbytheintroductionofshowroomsCTheoriginofIKEADSpecializationi
AIngvarKamprad-abornbusinessmanBSuccessbroughtbytheintroductionofshowroomsCTheoriginofIKEADSpecializationi
AIngvarKamprad-abornbusinessmanBSuccessbroughtbytheintroductionofshowroomsCTheoriginofIKEADSpecializationi
TheMakingofaSuccessStory1IKEAistheworld’slargestfurnitureretailer,andthemanbehinditisIngvarKamprad,oneo
Accordingtothepassage,whatdothepassengersusuallyseewhentheyareonalongbustrip?Thewriterthinksthattheendo
ThewriterseemstoimplythatEuropeanstravelmostlyforthereasonthatAccordingtothepassage,whichofthefollowingcou
ThewriterseemstoimplythatEuropeanstravelmostlyforthereasonthatInparagraph2,citieslikeLondon,Copenhagen,and
随机试题
(2013年)某汽车生产企业为了提升产品的市场影响力,积极实施市场营销战略,增加广告资金投入,加大市场宣传力度,提升品牌声誉。从企业战略层次分析,该企业的此项战略属于()。
Hawaii,theyoungeststateoftheUnitedStates,isdifferentinmanywaysfromthemainlandstates.TheHawaiianpeopleaream
A、Infection.B、Cavity.C、Caries.D、Noneoftheabove.A由女士的回答“Yourtoothisinfected”可知,男士的牙齿受到感染了,所以牙痛是由于感染所致。故选A。
关于肽键的描述,下列哪个是不正确的
下列关于电击伤的介绍,不正确的是
在消化道内吸收率较高、吸收速度较快的砷是
A、乙型肝炎B、肾综合征出血热C、伤寒D、乙型脑炎E、麻疹在发病4天开始出现皮疹
有线数字电视系统的支线部件包括()。
现在很多高校花三分之二的时间在礼仪上面。如怎样与领导相处。等等,你怎么看?
—Whatdoyouthinkofthenovel?—Oh,excellent.It’sworth______asecondtime.
最新回复
(
0
)