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巩固练习 Listen attentively 三、阅读理解 John Steinbeck was born in Salinas，California on February 27，1902.He attended Salinas High School between 1915 and 1919.At the age of 18，he studied marine(海洋的) biology at Stanford University but he left in 1925 without finishing his degree. He began to write.And in his books，Steinbeck wrote about the hard lives of migrant(移居的) workers and the strength of the human spirit.At various times，during his early years of writing，Steinbeck also did various jobs to make a living.Hard lives could be read in his novels here and there. 巩固练习 Listen attentively Over his lifetime he wrote a lot of fiction and non-fiction.Of Mice and Men (1937) became Steinbeck’s first big success.His novel The Grapes of Wrath，which was published in 1939，brought him even greater success.A year later he won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel.It is also for this novel that he is best remembered.Many of his books have been put on films and theatres. The latest film version(版本) of one of his stories is Of Mice and Men，which was made in 1992. Steinbeck was first married to Carol Henning in 1930.The marriage lasted for 12 years. 巩固练习 Listen attentively In1943 Steinbeck moved to New York City and he lived there for the rest of his life.He married the singer Gwyndonlyn Conger in 1943 and had two sons，Tom，born in 1944，and John，born in 1946.Steinbeck and his second wife divorced in 1948 and two years later he married his third wife，Elaine Scott. In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.And in 1964 President Lyndon B.Johnson presented him with the United States Medal of Freedom. Steinbeck died of a heart attack in New York on December 20,1968. 巩固练习 Listen attentively ( ) 1.The passage tells us mainly about ______. A.Steinbeck’s life B.Steinbeck’s marriage C.Steinbeck’s success D.Steinbeck’s novels ( ) 2.Steinbeck achieved his first success in ______. A.1929 B.1937 C.1939 D.1964 ( ) 3.In paragraph 3，the underlined word “which” refers to “