"A writer’s job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely asserted, so pugnaciously defended or so consistently exemplified the writer’s obligation to speak truly. His standard of truth—telling remained, moreover, so high and so rigorous that he was ordinarily unwilling to admit secondary evidence, whether literary evidence or evidence picked up from other sources than his own experience. "I only know what I have seen," was a statement which came often to his lips and pen. What he had personally done, or what he knew unforgettably by having gone through one version of it, was what he was interested in telling about. This is not to say that he refused to invent freely. But he always made it a sacrosanct point to invent in terms of what he actually knew from having been there.
The primary intent of his writing, from firs
A. Stories that he had heard from friends or chance acquaintances
B. Stories that he had read about in newspapers or other secondary sources
C. Stories that came to him in periods of meditation or in dream
D. Stories that he had lived rather than read about
E. Hemingway’s obsession for geographic details progressively overshadowed the dramatic element of his stories
"A writer’s job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely asserted, so pugnaciously defended or so consistently exemplified the writer’s obligation to speak truly. His standard of truth—telling remained, moreover, so high and so rigorous that he was ordinarily unwilling to admit secondary evidence, whether literary evidence or evidence picked up from other sources than his own experience. "I only know what I have seen," was a statement which came often to his lips and pen. What he had personally done, or what he knew unforgettably by having gone through one version of it, was what he was interested in telling about. This is not to say that he refused to invent freely. But he always made it a sacrosanct point to invent in terms of what he actually knew from having been there.
The primary intent of his writing, from firs
A. to construct a well-told story that the reader would thoroughly enjoy
B. to construct a story that would reflect truths that were not particular to a specific historical period
C. to begin from reality but to allow his imagination to roam from "the way it was" to "the way it might have been."
D. to report faithfully reality as Hemingway had experienced it
| Valentine’s Day is a festival of
romance and affection. The holiday is an interesting combination of pagan (异教徒的)
and Christian influences. Some of the day’s customs probably came from an
ancient Roman holiday caned Lupercalia, Which honored Juno (wife of Jupiter, the
goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth) and Pan (the God of nature). During
the Lupercalia festival, young women dropped poems bearing their names into a
large vase. Each young man picked a name from the vase to find his sweetheart
for that year. During the Middle Ages, church leaders wanted to relate this pagan holiday to Christianity, so they renamed it after a Christian saint and moved the holiday from February 15 to February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine. St. Valentine was a third-century Christian martyr, a young man who was imprisoned in Rome for r A. The Origin of Valentine’s Day B. Valentine’s Day Celebration C. Valentine, a Love Festival D. Be My Valentine [单项选择]Passage Three
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