2019学年度人教版选修八Unit 4PygmalionPeriod 5Using Language 阅读学案

Ⅰ. 阅读理解

The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

Rabindranath Tagore(1913)

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 humour and keen social perception".

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953)

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values".

Claude Simon(1985)

Prize motivation: "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition".

Mo Yan(2012)

Prize motivation: "he, with dream like realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary".

Bob Dylan(2016)

Prize motivation: "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

【语篇概述】本文介绍了8位著名的诺贝尔文学奖获得者的获奖原因。

1. Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?

A. William Faulkner. 　　　 B. Bob Dylan.

C. Rabindranath Tagore. D. Claude Simon.

【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据文章第一部分Rabindranath Tagore(1913)"because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill. . . 可知Rabindranath Tagore因为诗歌而获得了诺贝尔文学奖。

2. Which writer won Nobel Prize for his specific work instead of his lifelong achievements?

A. Ernest Hemingway. B. John Steinbeck.

C. William Faulkner. D. Winston Churchill.

【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据文章第三部分Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954) "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and