15.It's hard to find Alice Munro in the media.Even after she won the 2013Nobel Prize in Literature,the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight.On Dec 29,she still didn't seek the spotlight(聚光灯)when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.
In Munro's eyes,ordinary lives always hide larger dramas.So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people.She often focuses on life in her hometown,a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with.She writes about the ordinary things in the village-fox forming,trees filled in the Ontario wilderness,poor country alcohol and long last illnesses.Above all,she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune.
She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.These are ordinary people,ordinary stories,but she has the magic.Her precise language,depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.
Runaway,one of Munro's representative works,is a good example of her writing style.One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla,who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark.The story slowly forms a picture of Carla,trapped in a bad marriage,her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee.The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love.It is about lost children and lots of chances that we can all find in life,There is pain beneath the surface,like a needle in the heart.
Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968,Munro has won many awards,with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor.On Oct 10,2013,the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the"master of the contemporary short story".
24.We learn from Paragraph 1that Alice MunroB
A.didn't get on well with the media
B.remained modest though very successful
C.didn't value the title of Women of the Year
D.was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize
25.What makes Alice Munro's stories fascinating according to the text?A
A.Her writing techniques
B.The complicated plots
C.The humorous language
D.Her rich imagination
26.In her representative work Runaway,CarlaD
A.leads a happy life with Clark
B.is a faithful wife to her husband
C.loses all hopes for a better life
D.tries to run away from her husband
27.What is the text mainly about?C
A.Alice Munro and her hometown
B.The awards Alice Munro won
C.Alice Munro and her writing style
D.Alice Munro's literary life.
分析 本文介绍了 Alice Munro,自从获得诺贝尔文学奖之后,她很少露面.然后讲述了她的人生观,并且介绍了她的一部巨作---Runaway《逃离》---的一些信息.
解答 24答案B. 推理判断题.第一段介绍了munro的几项成就,但同时提出,她很少在媒体上露面,可知她很谦虚.故答案选B.25答案A. 细节理解题.根据第三段的最后一句"Her precise language,depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting."可知她精准的语言、细节的深度和讲故事的逻辑性使得她的小说很棒,这些都属于写作技巧.故答案选A.26答案D. 细节理解题.根据第四段的"The story slowly forms a picture of Carla,trapped in a bad marriage,her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee."可知女主人的婚姻很不幸福,她想摆脱她的丈夫.故答案选D.27答案C.主旨大意题.文章一开始介绍了Munro,然后介绍了她的写作风格及名著,并没有通篇详细介绍故乡,奖项以及写作生涯.故答案选C.
点评 本文是一篇人物故事类文章.阅读这类材料时,同学们一定要根据主要情节掌握文章主旨大意,同时抓住每一个细节,设身处地根据文章内容揣摩作者的态度和意图,根据情节展开想象,即使是碰到深层理解题也可迎刃而解.