Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday, honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, describes the landscape of the dispossessed（被流放者）," the Swedish Academy said．

   The 56-year-old author, who immigrated to Germany from Romania in 1987, first gained public attention in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled Niederungen, or Lowlands in English, which was promptly censored（审查通过） by her government．

   In 1984 an uncensored version was smuggled to Germany where it was published and her work describing life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania was popular with the readers there．That work was followed by Oppressive Tango in Romania．

  "The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while, outside of Romania, the German press received them very positively," the Academy said．"Because Mueller had publicly criticized the dictatorship（独裁） in Romania, she was prohibited from publishing in her own country．” In 1987 she immigrated to Germany with her husband two years before dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled from power．

   Mueller's parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania and father served in the Waffen SS during World War II．After the war ended, many German Romanians were deported（放逐） to the Soviet Union in 1945, including her mother, who spent five years in a work camp in what is now Ukraine．

   Most of her works are in German, but some works have been translated into English, French and Spanish, including The Passport, The Land of Green Plums, Traveling on One Leg and The Appointment．

   Mueller has given guest lectures at universities, colleges and other venues in Paderborn, Warwick, Hamburg, Swansea, Gainsville （Florida）, Kassel, Gottingen, Tubingen and Zurich among other places．She lives in Berlin．Since 1995 she has served as a member of Deutsche Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung, in Darmstadt．"

   Mueller is the 12th woman to win the literature prize．Recent female winners include Austria's Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and British writer Doris Lessing in 2007．

   The award includes a $1．4 million prize and will be handed out on December 10

1．Herta Mueller was awarded Nobel Prize in literature because of____________．

A．her public criticism upon the dictatorship in Romania

B．her works with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose

C．her works describing the life of the dispossessed in Germany 

D．the popularity of her works with the readers in the German-speaking village

2．Which of the following statements is mentioned by the author?

    A．German Romanians were treated unfairly in Germany in the 1940s．

B．Her parents were dispossessed to Ukraine after the World War II．

C．Her first work was published in Germany in the early 1980s．

D．Her works were all translated into versions in different languages．

3．It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph that _____．

    A．people then in Romania had the right to say whatever was true．

    B．Herta Mueller left her home country after the dictatorship was ended．

   C．Herta Mueller immigrated to Germany together with her parents．

    D．Romanian citizens lived a hard life without democracy in the 1980s．

4．According to the passage, which of the following works has an English version?

   A．Lowlands in English                         B．Oppressive Tango in Romania．

C．Traveling on One Leg                      D．The Land of Green Plums

5．What is the passage mainly about?

    A．Mueller made great contribution to literature through hard work

B．Mueller won the Nobel Prize for her great literature works．

C．Mueller gained great popularity by describing dictatorship．

D．Mueller was treated badly in Romania and immigrated to Germany．

1. Her __________ (雄心， 野心) is to become part of the national team for the next Paralympic Games

2.Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered ______________ (同情心) by a robot.

3.As he was not allowed to ___________ (陪伴；伴奏) her to the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her.

4.As a ________________ (恩惠；喜爱) Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant.

5.In 1942 he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Navy Yard as a __________ (较年幼的，地位低的) chemist.

6.It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his ___________ (才干，特殊能力) for writing became obvious.

7.Soon after his ______________ (离婚) in 1973, Asimove married again.

8.I could see he was terrified of being ______________ (遗弃，抛弃) by us.

9.I’m sitting in the warm night air with a cold drink in my hand and _______ (反射；思考) on the day.

10.Without ____________ (暂停) we jumped into the boat with the other whales and headed out into the bay.

 学生之间是否应该在自习课上讨论问题？你所在班级就此话题展开了讨论。根据下列内容用英语写一篇100字左右的短文。

赞成：45%     理由：1.可以更好的解决问题；  2. 互相取长补短

反对：55%     理由：1.声音大，影响他人学习；2.无法独立思考问题。

注意：文章标题和开头已给出，但不计入总词数。

Should We Study by Talking in Self-study Classes?

   Lately our class has had a discussion on whether we should study by talking in self-study classes. Views vary from person to person.                                                

根据汉语、首字母提示在课文内容语境中写出单词的适当形式
【小题1】Only athletes who have reached the a       standard for their event will be           as competitors
【小题2】After that ,what happened to the Amber Room r       a mystery.
【小题3】After I was p         by an operator who used cards with holes I could “think” logically and p        an answer quicker than any person.
【小题4】Her father said that she must marry, so Atlanta made a b      with him.
【小题5】Do you think Hippomenes d        to win the race ?
【小题6】Make sure that you all get        (同等)turns in talking to the class
【小题7】In this way you will become more          (自信)in speaking English.
【小题8】At that time it was           (认为)a technological revolution and the start of my “artificial         (智能)”.
【小题9】In1936 my real father Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a “universal machine” to s       any difficult mathematical problem.
【小题10】I was able to s      my knowledge with others        (通过)the World Wide Web.
【小题11】I developed very slowly and it took       (将近)two hundred years b        I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.
【小题12】In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they         (庆祝)the 300th birthday of their city.
【小题13】It was also a treasure d       with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best         (艺术家)about ten years to make.
【小题14】The          (设计)of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.

The significantwords found on an old key —"If I rest, I will rust"—would be an excellent motto for those who are tired of their slightest bit of idleness
(懒散).
Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their abilities polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gates that guard the entrance to the professions, to science, art, literature, or agriculture —- every department of human efforts.
Industry(勤奋)　keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement.
If Hugh Miller, after working hard all day in a mine, had devoted his evenings to rest and relaxation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The outstanding mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to the science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness. Had the little Scottish boy, Ferguson, allowed his busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the positions of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.
[写作内容]
1.以约30个词概括以上短文的内容要点；
2.以约120个词就“业精于勤荒于嬉”这一主题进行议论，内容包括：
（1）文章对你的启示；
（2）描述你自己或他人通过勤奋取得成功的事例。
[写作要求]
1.可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。