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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题63 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions:  Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.  Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the 1 spokesperson for the Lost Generation and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954). His writing style and personal life 2 a 3 influence on American writers of his time.  Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in a doctors family in Oak Park, in the 4 of Chicago. The novel 5 established Hemingways 6 was The Sun Also Rises (1926). The story described a group of 7 Americans and Britons living in France. That is to 8 , it described the life of the members of the 9 Lost Generation after World War I. Hemingways second major novel was A Farewell to Arms (1929), a love story 10 in wartime Italy. That novel was 11 by Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Green Hills of Africa (1935). His two 12 of short stories Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933) established his fame 13 the master of short stories.  In the late 1930s, Hemingway began to express 14 about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937) 15 economic and political injustices. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) 16 the conflict of the Spanish Civil War. In 1952, Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea, for 17 he won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, Hemingway was 18 the Nobel Prize of Literature. Later, being 19 and ill, he shot 20 on July 2, 1961. 1.A.outstandingB.monotonousC.awkwardD.modest答案:A[考点] 本题考查点是逆向推断。[解析] 选项与释义： A. outstanding突出的，显著的 B. monotonous单调的  C. awkward尴尬的；不灵活的 D. modest谦虚的，谦让的  本题空白处后面的信息内容“and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Pri