20152016第一学期期末考试英语试卷概要1.docVIP

高一年级2015-2016期末考试试卷 A Walter Macken, a famous novelist, playwright and actor, was born in Galway in 1915. He first began to write at the age of eight. He joined the Taibhdhearc in 1934, while still attending school. It was there he met his wife, Peggy Kenny, who was a news editor. They fell in love, but her father didnt approve of Peggys choice, so they had to elope and got married in Dublin in 1937. Walter once worked as an insurance agency in London, selling insurance door to door and later took up the post of theatre manager with the Taibhdhearc. At that time, he began to write both in Irish and English. By 1946 his first play in English, Mungos Mansion, had been successfully staged, and his first novel, Quench the Moon, had been accepted for publication.牋? In 1949 his second novel, I Am Alone, was published, and a year later his third novel, Rain on the Wind, brought him international recognition, winning the Book of the Month Club and the Literary Guild award. A successful US theatre tour made him decide to return home to establish a career for himself as a full-time writer.牋? In 1957 he started his greatest writing project: the three historical novels, Seek the Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind, and in 1964 his first childrens novel, Island of the Great Yellow Ox, proved to be one of his most popular books. In all, he produced a lot of works which finally came to ten novels, seven plays, three books of short stories and two childrens books; most of his novels have been translated into many languages. (1)燱hich of the following best describe Walter? A.燝enerous. B.燨ptimistic.o C.燭alented.c D.燭raditional.r (2)燱hat made him take up writing as his full-time job? A.燞is marriage. d B.燞is early experience.p C.燭he popularity of his novels.g D.燗 theatre tour.o (3)燱hat does the underlined word 揺lope?in the first paragraph refer to? A.燣eave home to make a fortune.he p B.燗nnounce officially to be together.e C.燫un away secretly to make a livin