高考英语阅读理解专项突破：文学与艺术(3)

B.The History of Paper Cutting

C.A Brief Introduction to Paper Cutting

D.Paper Cutting — Unbelievable Skilled Crafters 6. Chinese people had never paid more attention to the annual Nobel literature award than they did when Mo Yan became China’s first winner of the prize. The effect has not disappeared. Tourists continue to rush to Mo’s home village in Gaomi, Shangdong province, which has become a tourist site since the author was awarded Nobel Prize. Visiting the village is to walk into the world he created in Red Sorghum Clan, one of his best-known novels, adapted for the award-winning film Red Sorghum by famous director Zhang Yimou in 1987.

About 210 hectares of red sorghum(高粱) is ready for harvesting, recalling this scene Mo wrote in the novel: \high, clear sky, the land is covered by sorghum that forms a wild sea of blood. When the sun comes out, the surface of the sea shimmers(闪光), and heaven and Earth are painted with rich, wonderful colors.\

Locals have planted the sorghum for the coming film of the novel’s TV adaptation starring actress Zhou Xun, in similar style to 1987 when Zhang’s film was filmed. But while the sorghum fields disappeared after the film was made, this time they may remain.“We have signed long-term contracts to sell sorghum to wine producers,”said Zhang Xinfu, head of Xianjia village, Mo Yan’s hometown is in the area.“Dozens of wine producers came to discuss the sorghum business after Mo Yan won the prize,” said Zhang. Zhang said the wine producers promised to pay a satisfying price for the sorghum.

1.What happened to Mo Yan’s home village after he won the Prize? A.The house of Mo’s at his home village was rebuilt for tourism. B.The local people at Mo’s home village welcomed the tourists.

C.Many tourists rushed to Mo’s home village to show respect and interest. D.Mo’s home village remained what it used to be.

2.The underlined word “adapted” in paragraph2 probably means “___________”. A.settled B.designed C.re-organized D.written

3.Which season was it when the passage was written? A.Autumn. B.Winter. C.Spring. D.Unknown.

4.According to the text, we can infer that the wine producer bought sorghum from Mo’s home village for__________. A.the fame of Mo Yan.

B.good quality of the red sorghum itself. C.the lower price

D.the large amount of the red sorghum .

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7. Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing part of the fantasy genre (流派) has taken the form of video games, music, painting, and the like. It is difficult to define the precise “beginning” of fantasy literature, as stories involving magic and terrible monsters have existed since time immemorial. On the whole, the genre, as a distinct type, began to become visible in the Victorian times, in the works of writers such as William Morris, Lord Dunsany and George Macdonald.

Some commentators declared that the South African-born, English professor of philology, J. R. R. Tolkien, was influential to the mass-popularization of the fantasy genre, with his hugely successful publications — The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien himself, though, was largely informed by an ancient body of Anglo-Saxon myths — particularly Beowulf — but it was after his work that the genre began to receive the name, “fantasy”. J. R. R. Tolkien’s close friend C.S. Lewis, author of the The Chronicles of Narnia, also an English professor interested in similar themes, was also connected with popularizing the commercial success of the fantasy genre.

Outstanding authors in the genre who undertook popular fantasy works after Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings phenomenon of the 1950s and 1960s appeared quickly. In recent years, the rate of female-to-male authors in a typically-stocked bookstore has skyrocketed, with female authors surpassing the volume of the male ones. Fantasy has been famous from other forms of literature by its style. The fantasy world requires, like any genre, appropriate language, arid that language can vary. In various forms of fairytale fantasy, even the villain’s (坏人) language would be inappropriate if vulgar (粗俗的). Famous fantasy author Raymond E. Feist considered his genre to be one where “ordinary people” were placed in extraordinary situations, and writing about what would happen.

1.How many fantasy writers are mentioned in this passage? A.Five. B.Six. C.Seven. D.Eight.

2.The underlined word “skyrocketed” in the third paragraph means_________. A.rise rapidly and suddenly B.drop rapidly and suddenly C.rise slowly and steadily D.drop slowly and steadily

3.This passage is mainly about_________. A.the background of fantasy literature

B.some famous works about fantasy literature

C.the origin and its popularity of fantasy literature D.some outstanding authors of fantasy literature

8.The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

Rabindranath Tagore(1913)

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Prize motivation: “because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”. William Faulkner (1949)

Prize motivation: “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”.

Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954)

Prize motivation: “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea”. John Steinbeck (1962)

Prize motivation: “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception”. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953)

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