吉林省长春市第二中学2022-2023学年高一暑假作业英语试题四

2023 高一年级暑假作业英语科（四） 第一部分 阅读理解 第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中选出最佳选项。 A Willa Sibert Cather, Nebraska’s most famous novelist, was born in 1873 in Virginia. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska, and lived on a farm there for two years before moving into the town of Red Cloud. Many of Cather’s characters and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895. She worked for The Home Monthly and Pittsburgh Daily Leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later taught English and Latin at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York and served as managing editor of McClure’s Magazine from 1906 to 1912. Cather continued her education and received a doctorate (博士学位) of letters at the University of Nebraska in 1917. She also received honorary (荣誉 的 ) degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, and from Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning many awards including the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy who went off to World War I. Her novel, A Lost Lady, was made into a silent movie in 1925. Cather’s other well-known novels include My Antonia, O Pioneers, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and The Professor’s House. Cather died on April 24, 1947 in New York. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation at Red Cloud, Nebraska preserved her childhood home and other buildings connected with her writings. In 1961 Cather was the first woman voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was introduced into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1974 and into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at Seneca, New York in 1988. 21. If you want to learn about Red Cloud, you’d better . A. get to know Cather B. talk with those who lik