(有答案)高中英语短篇文章之《黑人托妮·莫里森》

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Toni Morrison,an American writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature,has died at age88.Her novels Beloved,Song of Solomon and others explored the way African-Americans search for freedom and identity in a country obsessed（着迷的）with skin color.

Morrison was nearly40when she published her first novel The Bluest Eye in1970.Within25years,she would win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize committee described her writing as“language itself,a language she wants to liberate from race”.In1988,she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved,which tells the story of a mother who kills her baby daughter rather than permit her to be born into slavery.It became a bestseller and was later made into a film with Oprah Winfrey. Many Americans admired her as“the country’s greatest living writer”. And she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,the U.S.’s highest civilian honor.

She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain,Ohio,in1931.Her father worked in a steel mill,and her mother was a maid.She attended Howard University,an all-black university in Washington,D.C.At Howard,she read African,British and American literature,including writers William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.“The writer who affected me the most was the novelist who was writing in Africa:Chinua Achebe;Things Fall Apart

was a major education for me”,she told the Associated Press in1998. After a short marriage,she became a single mother of two sons and worked as a book editor in New York.Several publishers rejected her first book The Bluest Eye,but it impressed The New York Times’book critic John Leonard who believed Morrison was an important new voice.He said her writing was“so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”.

Morrison enjoyed her literary fame and was proud of her Nobel Prize.“Nobody was going to take that and make it into something else.I felt representational（代表性的）.I felt American.I felt Ohioan.I felt blacker than ever.I felt more woman than ever.I felt all of that and put all of that together and went out and had a good time,”she said.

（节选自VOA）

1.Which of the following is the theme of Morrison’s novels?

A.Africa’s development in language.

B.African-Americans’dream about fame.

C.Americans’efforts for being independent.

D.African-Americans’pursuit of freedom and identity.

2.What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A.People’s comments on Morrison.

B.The great achievements of Morrison.

C.The introduction to Morrison’s novels.

D.Morrison’s feelings about winning prizes.

3.What can we know about Morrison from the text?

A.The Beloved made her win the Pulitzer Prize.

B.She attended an all-black university in Britain.

C.The African poet Chinua Achebe influenced her most.

D.She was the lead editor of The New York Times.

4.What can we learn from the words of Morison in the last paragraph?

A.She liked writing novels and loved America.

B.She did better than anyone else in literature.

C.She had a good time and was full of hope for life and future.

D.She enjoyed winning the Nobel Prize as an African-American woman.