PAGE 第 9 页 共 13 页 单元质量检测（一） (时间：100分钟 满分：120分) Ⅰ.阅读理解(共10小题；每小题25分，满分25分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, has a number of strings to his bow, or rather his guitar.The 64 year old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great singer and songwriter, like 2016's winner, Bob Dylan. As his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a British citizen who writes in English.He was educated at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers. Ishiguro's writing is highly self contained.This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to whom he is often compared.The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day, which later became a successful film. The central character of the book is a butler (男管家) called Stevens.He is a loyal servant to an English lord, and a character who some people might call repressed.He misses out on affection and love because he will not admit his feelings to anyone.We have to read between the lines to uncover the “real” story, which isn't quite the one the butler is telling.Stevens finds it a challenge to communicate, and communication is often a theme in Ishiguro's novels. In this author's works, there is a gap between our feelings and our ability to communicate them.The Nobel Committee stressed it when talking about Ishiguro's works: The writer has uncovered the abyss (深渊) beneath our unreal sense of connection with the world. 1．What did Ishiguro want to be in the beginning A．A famous writer. B．A guitar player. C．A second Bob Dylan. D．A singer and songwriter. 2．Why is the story not quite the one Stevens tells in The Remains of the Day A．Because he is not allowed to tell the truth. B．Because he misses out on what he desires. C．Because he doesn't express himself truly. D．Because he has low social status as a servant. 3．What does the underlined word “it” refer to A．The author's sense of the world. B．The theme of Ishiguro's works. C．The reason for choosing the winner. D．Our ability to communicate feelings. B he English are not often thought of as passionate people. It's often said that they are unemotional, or keep their emotions hidden. Emily Bronte's characters in Wuthering Heights (《呼啸山庄》)(1847) seem very un English then, since they are some of the most passionate in the literary history. This story is set in the north of England where Bronte grew up with her two famous sisters, the well known Charlotte and the lesser known Anne. Bronte presents this part of the world as a wild place, with few of the graces of civilization. Indeed, one of the novel's points is that nature can be as strong a force as civilization. Wuthering Heights begins with a tale from the past. We hear ... ...
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