[单项选择]The writer became well-known in（　）.
A. his thirties in the 1980s
B. the thirties in his 1980
C. his 30s in 1980s
D. the thirties during the 1980

[填空题]Mark Twain became the most outstanding writer of his time because he knew his people and the Mississippi River very well, and he inherited from his mother ______.

[简答题]She was a singer,a writer and finally she became a movie director. (sentence with parallel structure)

[单项选择]In 2012, Mo Yan became the first Chinese writer _________ won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A. that
B. whom
C. whose
D. which

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I don’t know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet’s Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony’s “Funeral Oration”, Grey’s “Elegy”, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.
He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc. , and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been est
A. made an important contribution
B. insisted that he choose writing as a career
C. opposed his becoming a writer
D. insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

[单项选择]Why was the writer so nervous
A. He had never stood before a video camera．
B. He had never read his own article before a video camera．
C. This camera was different from the one he had once faced．

[单项选择]The writer criticizes visual entertainment because______.
A. it does not require men’s creative powers
B. it cannot improve our intelligence and skill
C. it demands too much of our imagination
D. it leads men to slow degeneration in health

[单项选择]He became so hungry that he


A. went to sleep
B. ate paper
C. went to the dinner-table
D. kept out of the way

[单项选择]Nancy became a taxi driver because
A. she owned a car.
B. she drove well.
C. she liked drivers’’ uniforms.
D. it was her childhood dream.

[单项选择]What touched the writer in the end

[单项选择]The first American writer who gained international fame was
A. Mark Twain.
B. R. W. Emerson.
C. Washington Irving.
D. Walt Whitman.

[填空题]What do you think of the writer

[单项选择]Alexander Pope was the representative writer of
A. Transcendentalism.
B. Romanticism.
C. Modernism.
D. Neo-Classicism.

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Dinosaurs were reptiles which became extinct about 65 million years ago. The most intriguing question about dinosaurs has always been " (21) did they die out" There is no simple answer to this question, (22) many hundreds of scientists are studying the problem. They are not studying the extinction of the dinosaurs (23) , but the whole question of extinction. Many other plants and animals have (24) in the past, and it is important to understand (25) this happened. Having this information could help save many species that are (26) in the modern world. Humans are causing extinctions now, because of pollution and other damage (27) the environment. Maybe the dinosaurs can tell us how to save the earth today, (28) their extinction 65 million years ago! Some of the early dinosaur scientists, 100 years ago, thought the dinosaurs died out because the (29) changed, and they could not breathe. Others thought that the d
A. for eating
B. to have
C. to survive
D. for life