Question

閱讀下面的短文并用英語回答問題，然后將答案寫到答題卡相應的位置上（請注意問題后的詞數要求）。

[1] Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since it was founded in 1901.

[2] Munro,82, only the 13th woman given the award, was praised by the Swedish Academy during the Nobel announcement in Stockholm as the "master of the contemporary short story. " "We're not saying just that she can say a lot in just 20 pages---more than an average novel writer can---but also that she can cover ground. She can have a single short story that covers decades, and it works, " said Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.

[ 3] Munro said she always viewed her chances of winning the Nobel as " one of those pipe dreams" that "might happen, but it probably wouldn't. " Munro's daughter woke her up to tell her the news. "It just seems impossible. A splendid thing to happen…More than I can say, " she said, overcome with emotion. " My stories have gotten around quite remarkably for short stories. I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art, not something you play around with until you got a novel written. "

[4] Born in Ontario in 193I,Alice Anne Laidlaw studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario in London before dropping out to marry James Munro, a fellow student. She became a full-time housewife and mother of their children. She then moved to Victoria with her first husband and later returned to Ontario following their divorce. She married Fremlin in 1976.

[5] Three years ago, in an interview at Toronto's International Festival of Authors, Munro said she had battled cancer, but did not provide specifics. In June, she told the National Post she was "probably not going to write anymore. " Asked on Thursday whether she would reconsider that statement, Munro said______, " because I am getting rather old. "

1.What is the text mainly about? ( no more than 15 words)

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2.What is Peter Englund mainly talking about in paragraph two? ( no more than 5 words)

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3.Please explain the underlined sentence in paragraph three.

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4.How did Alice Munro get the news that she won the Nobel Prize? ( no more than 10 words)

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5.Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words. (no more than 5 words)

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Answer 1

1.Alice Munro ， the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature Alice Munro ，who wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

2.Alice Munro’s writing style/ characteristics

3.Alice Munro sees/thinks of her winning the Nobel Prize as something of a pipe/day dream. /She thinks it unbelievable to win the Nobel Prize.

4.Through her daughter/ Her daughter told her about it.

5.She didn’t think so/ she wouldn’t/ no

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章講的是Alice Munro是2013年諾貝爾文學獎的獲得者，是諾貝爾獎設立以來第一個獲得這個獎項的女士。

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