07 Unit 2 Art and artists 单元测试-2022-2023学年高中英语教学必备资料（上外版2020必修第三册）

单元测试 一、用单词的适当形式完成短文 Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in literature Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced on October 5, 2017. Awarded ____1____ 1901, the Nobel Prize in literature has become the highest honor of literature. ____2____ the terms set down by founder Alfred Nobel, the prize recognizes a writer who has produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction. The British novelist, born in Japan, is best known for his novel “The Remains of the Day”(1989). Permanent secretary of the academy Sara Danius said immediately after the announcement, “He’s developed an aesthetic universe all his own. He is exploring what you have to forget ____3____ (survive) in the first place as an individual or as a society.” Ishiguro’s win marks the Nobel’s return to a ____4____ (traditional) literary author. Last year, the prize was awarded to American musician Bob Dylan, ____5____ surprising decision that sparked criticism from some quarters. In 2015, the Belarusian investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the prize. Ishiguro, on the other hand, is a much ____6____ (admire) fiction writer who sits comfortably alongside such previous winners as Toni Morrison and Alice Munro. His work is marked by a sense of painful loneliness. Joyce Carol Oates has called Ishiguro “one of our most eloquent poets of loss.” ____7____ (review) his most recent novel, “The Buried Giant,” former Washington Post Book World editor Marie Arana wrote, “His sensibility is neither Japanese nor English; it stands apart from any one culture. If these books have ____8____ in common, it is that an unspoken secret is entombed（埋葬）at each core ‒ an elusive（难以捉摸的） truth that is inferred, but that no one quite understands or can fully articulate.” Ishiguro ____9____ (remain) very much a citizen of the world, consciou