[单项选择]In 1940, Ernest Hemingway published the novel entitled （　） which is about the Spanish Civil War.
A. Across the River and Into the Trees
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. A Farewell to Arms
D. The Sun Also Rises

[单项选择]Ernest Hemingway underwent 20 gruelling rounds of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to cure him of his depression. Having lost many of his memories as a result, he said, "It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient," and took a shotgun to his head not long afterwards. Ever since ECT was pioneered by Ugo Cerletti, an Italian neurosurgeon, in the late 1930s, it has had a bad press. In books (The bell Jar, Zen and the Art of MIotorcycle Maintenance), in song (Electric Co by U2) and in film (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Tar-nation), it has been portrayed as a sinister procedure that leaves the patient a dribbling dullard. But in spite of this, ECT remains one of the fastest-acting and most effective antidepressant treatments known.
Why it should be so effective, though, is an enigma. On the face of it, running a current of almost an amp through someone’s brain seems a silly thing to do. But a study by Johan Hellsten of Lurid University in Sweden has cast some light on the que
A. stimulate the patient to be more active.
B. stimulate the brain to grow new blood vessels.
C. help a patient recall what has happened.
D. help a patient to come to his consciousness.

[单项选择]Numerous parallels exist between Ernest Hemingway’s life and the lives of his （　）characters.
A. studies
B. problems
C. similarities
D. biases

[单项选择]All the following were written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT
[A] The Sun Also Rises. [B] The Old Man and the Sea.
[C] A Farewell to Arms. [D] In a Station of the Metro.

[单项选择]Ernest Hemingway is one of the most famous American novelists, short-story writers and essayists, whose simple prose style in the works like（　）have influenced a wide range of writers.
A. All the King’s Men
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. The Color Purple
D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Ernest Hemingway was one of the most important American writers in the history of contemporary American literature. He was the (1) spokesperson for the Lost Generation and also the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954). His writing style and personal life (2) a (3) influence on American writers of his time.
Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in a doctor’s family in Oak Park, in the (4) of Chicago. The novel (5) established Hemingway’s (6) was The Sun Also Rises (1926). The story described a group of (7) Americans and Britons living in France. That is to (8) , it described the life of the members of the (9) Lost Generation after World War I. Hemingway’s second major novel was A Farewell to Arms (1929), a love story (10) in wartime Italy. That novel was (11) by Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Green Hills of AfricaA. ambitious
B. expatriate
C. learned
D. wealthy