2013年江苏省高考二轮复习强化训练38.docVIP

2013年江苏省高考二轮复习强化训练38 请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature. The 74-year-old man has written more than 30 novels plays and essays. He is the first South American winner of the prize since 1982 when it went to Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the previous six years, the academy awarded the 10 million kronor (￡938,000) prize to five Europeans and one Turk, sparking criticism that it was too Euro-centric. The Swedish Academys Peter said Vargas Llosa was an excellent gifted story-teller. He added that the writer was in New York and was told by telephone that he had won the prize. I will try to survive the Nobel Prize, he joked during a news conference later on Thursday. It was a total surprise. But he said the honor would not affect his craft. Born in the town of Arequipa, Vargas Llosa took Spanish nationality in 1993—three years after an unsuccessful bid for the Peruvian presidency. The author has won some of the Western worlds most famous literary medals including the Cervantes Prize in 1995—the Spanish-speaking worlds most distinguished literary honor. The writers international breakthrough came with the 1960s novel The Time of The Hero. The book was considered controversial in his homeland and 1,000 copies were burnt publicly by officers from the academy. His best-known works include Conversation In The Cathedral, The War of the End of the World and The Feast of the Goat. Several books were made into movies including the 1990 Hollywood film Tune in Tomorrow, based on his novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter which starred Barbara Hershey, Peter Falk and Keanu Reeves. The author once had a great friendship with Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but their relationship turned into worse after Vargas Llosa hit Garcia Marquez at a theatre in Mexico City in 1976, leaving him with a black eye. Relations appeared to thaw(融合)in 27, however, when Vargas Llosa provid