Question

In 2000 the Chinese novelist Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for literature(諾貝爾文學獎)．He was the first Chinese  1  to win the world’s most important literary prize．It is said that  2  work has opened new ways for the Chinese novel．

Gao was born in 1940 in Jiangxi Province, Eastern China．His father worked in a bank and his mother was all actress．She  3  Gao’s interest in the theater．

When he left school, Gao studied French at the Department of Foreign Languages in Beijing．After he graduated from college, he left  4  to live and work in France in 1987． 5 that time he has worked as a translator(翻譯), theater director and novelist．His most  6  work is the novel “Soul Mountain(靈山)”．The story happens in the Chinese countryside．And the novel has changed into  7  languages．

The Nobel Prize in 2000 was about $915,000．The Nobel Prizes include prizes for different kinds of sciences  8  the Nobel Peace Prize．The money was left by Alfred Nobel．He said that the literature prize  9  accept an author whose work moves in an “ideal direction”(理想的方向)．

The Nobel Prizes are given to the winner by the Swedish King every year  10  December 10, the anniversary(周年紀念日)of Nobel’s death in 1896．

1．A．actor                            B．singer                         C．writer

2．A．his                                B．her                             C．one’s

3．A．lost                              B．encouraged                 C．showed

4．A．America                       B．Britain                         C．China

5．A．Since                           B．By                              C．Before

6．A．difficult                        B．famous                       C．expensive

7．A．no                                B．few                            C．many

8．A．nor                              B．and                             C．neither

9．A．should                          B．mustn’t                       C．couldn’t

10．A．at                               B．in                               C．on

Answer 1

1—5  CABCA      6—10  BCBAC