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  Tony Morrison has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.Tony Morrison is sixty-two years old.She was born in Lorain, Ohio.She is the daughter of farmers who moved to Ohio from the southern state of Alabama.She studied at Harvard University in Washington D.C.a(chǎn)nd Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

  Her first success came in 1970 with the book called The Bluest Eye.It tells the story of a young black girl in a society where golden hair and blue eyes are considered beautiful.Her next book was called Sulla.It tells the story of two black girls and pain in their lives as they grow up in a small town in Ohio.Her book The Song of Solomon is about a black man who tries to forget his past as a slave and begins a new life.And Tar Baby explores the relationship of a black man and a black woman.In the story the writer argues that black men and women can not get along with each other until they join together to fight racial hatred(種族仇視).

  Miss Morrison won America’s highest prize for literature, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her book Beloved.It is a powerful story of a slave woman who kills her baby daughter so she will not grow up to be a slave, too.Her latest book Jazz was published last year.It tells about the sad stories in the lives of a black man and a woman who moved from a small town in the south to New York City.It took place in the 1920s,a time when Jazz music became popular in America.

  Tony Morrison is a professor in literature at Princeton University in New Jersey.She says the most wonderful thing about winning the Nobel Prize is that it has finally been awarded to an African American writer.The prize is valued at more than 800 000 dollars.It will be awarded on Dec.10 in Stockholm in Sweden.

(1)

From the passage, we can see ________.

[  ]

A.

Morrison is the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize

B.

The Bluest Eye tells the story of two black girls

C.

the Blacks lived a hard life

D.

Morrison studied at Cornell University and is now still working there

(2)

Morrison has been awarded the Nobel Prize perhaps because ________.

[  ]

A.

she is an important professor in literature

B.

her books are widely read

C.

what she has written attracts people’s attention to the Blacks’ life

D.

she mostly writes about the black women

(3)

How many books she has written are mentioned in the passage?

[  ]

A.

Five.

B.

Six.

C.

Seven.

D.

Eight.

(4)

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

[  ]

A.

Morrison’s father once lived in Alabama.

B.

When jazz was popular in the United States.

C.

When her ancestors first came to the U.S.

D.

When and where the Nobel Prize will be given to her.

答案:1.C;2.C;3.B;4.C;
解析:

選項(xiàng)A、B、D分別可在文章第一段、第三段、第四段找到依據(jù)。


提示:

(1)

根據(jù)Morrison所寫的所有書的介紹,黑人們都過著艱難的生活。

(2)

由Morrison所著書中的黑人的悲慘命運(yùn),可以推出她的書引起了人們對黑人生活的關(guān)注。

(3)

文中總共提到了六本她寫的書。


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