2019-2020学年华师大附中高三上英语期中考试 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Scction A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blan Kazuo Ishiguro has a number of strings to his bow, or rather his guitar. (21) 62year-old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great Singen and song writer His friend and former publisher Robert Mc Crum recalls him(22) (turn)up al the publishing house Faber and Faber with a bunch of his stories ia one hand and a guitar over his shoulder. It was his stories that carned him the great honor As his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he canc to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a british citizen who writes in english. h (23) (educate)at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers Ishiguro's writing is highly restrained. His characters are often reluctant to express es,(24) in a kind of code. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to(25) he is often compared The best cxamplc of this is his novel The remains of thc day,(26) (adapt) latcr into a success ful film with the samc namc The central character of the book is a butler called Stevens. He is an extremely loy al servant to an English lord, and is a character who some might call repressed( HEip Bg) He is not willing to confess his feelings to anyone (27) hc isscs out on affection and Jove Thc story is told by Stevens and his style is as polilc and unrcvcaling as his behavior or coursc, wc(28) rcad bctwccn thc lincs to uncover the "rcal story, which isnt quite the one the butler is telling. Stevens finds it challenge(29) (communicate), and communication is often a theme in lshiguro's novels In this authors sense of the world, there is a gap between our feelings and our ability to communicate (30) The Nobel Committce emphasized this theme when it talked about lshiguro's work, The writer has, the com mittee claimed "in novels of
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