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【题目】短文填空

Alice Munro was b___【1】____ in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school t___【2】___. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, c___【3】___ out in 1950 while she was studying at the University of Western Ontario. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk (职员).

Munro’s f___【4】__ collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), w___【5】___ the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文学的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互关联的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was p_【6】__. This book earned Munro a s__【7】___ Governor General’s Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. In 1980, Munro held the position of writer in residence (住校) at b___【8】_ the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection about once every four years.

On 10 October, 2013, Munro w__【9】__ awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is k___【10】__ as a “master of the contemporary (当代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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【答案】

【1】born

【2】teacher

【3】came

【4】first

【5】won

【6】published

【7】second

【8】both

【9】was

【10】known

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了Alice Munro—现代短篇故事大师。出生在加拿大温厄，安大略省，十几岁开始写作，出版了许多受人们喜欢的小说和书籍，2013年10月10，Munro被授予诺贝尔文学奖，成为加拿大第一个获得诺贝尔文学奖的女人。

【1】句意：Alice Munro出生在Wingham, Ontario。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填born。

【2】句意：Anne Clarke Laidlaw是一名学校教师。 根据句意及所给首字母此空应填teacher。

【3】句意：她的第一部故事The Dimensions of a Shadow在1950年出版。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填 came。

【4】句意：Munro的第一部故事集Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), 获得了加拿大最高文学奖。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填first。

【5】句意： Munro的第一部故事集Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), 获得了加拿大最高文学奖。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填won。

【6】句意：在1978年她的故事续集Who Do You Think You Are?被印刷。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填 published。

【7】句意：这部故事集为她赢得了第二次文学奖。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填second。

【8】句意：在1980年她在英国的哥伦比亚大学和the University of Queensland拥有作家职位。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填both。

【9】句意：在2013年10月10号Munro被授予诺贝尔文学奖。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填was。

【10】句意：她作为当代短篇小说大师而闻名。根据句意及所给首字母此空应填known 。