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

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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【C1】______spokesperson for the Lost Generation and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954). His writing style and personal life【C2】______a【C3】______influence on American writers of his time.
    Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in a doctor’s family in Oak Park, in the【C4】______of Chicago. The novel【C5】______established Hemingway’s【C6】______was The Sun Also Rises (1926). The story described a group of【C7】______Americans and Britons living in France. That is to【C8】______, it described the life of the members of the【C9】______Lost Generation after World War I. Hemingway’s second major novel was A Farewell to Arms (1929), a love story【C10】______in wartime Italy. That novel was【C11】______by Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Green Hills of Africa (1935). His two【C12】______of short stories Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933) established his fame【C13】______the master of short stories.
    In the late 1930’s, Hemingway began to express【C14】______about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937)【C15】______economic and political injustices. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)【C16】______the conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In 1952, Hemingway published em>The Old Man and the Sea, for【C17】______he won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, Hemingway was【C18】______the Nobel Prize of Literature. Later, being【C19】______and ill, he shot【C20】______on July 2, 1961.
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选项 A、outstanding
B、monotonous
C、awkward
D、modest

答案A

解析 本题考查点是逆向推断。本题空白处后面的信息内容“and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for literature(第六个获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国人)”提示本题应该选择A(outstanding突出的)这个褒义词,以便使本句所表达的内容保持前后一致。
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