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绝密 ★ 启用前 高2016级 英语试题 考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分第I卷 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分） 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。Willa Sibert Cather, Nebraskas most noted novelist, was born in 1873 in Virginia. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska, and lived on a farm there for two years before moving into the town of Red Cloud. Many of Cathers acquaintances and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895. While attending the university, she was a drama critic for the Lincoln Journal. She worked for Home Monthly and the Daily Leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later taught English and Latin at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York and served as managing editor of McClures Magazine from 1906 t0 1912. Cather continued her education and received a doctorate of letters at the University of Nebraska in 1917. She also received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, and from Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning many awards including the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy who went off to World War I. Her novel, A Lost Lady, was made into a silent movie in 1925.Other well-known Cather novels include My Antonia, O Pioneers, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and The Professors House. Cather died April 24, 1947 in New York. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation at Red Cloud, Nebraska preserved her childhood home and other buildings connected with her writings. In 1961 Cather was the first woman voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1974 and into the National Womens Hall of Fame at Seneca, New York in 1988 21, Cather experienced the life o