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练案[17] 选择性必修第一册 UNIT 1 PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT
Ⅰ. 完形填空
(2023重庆市第一次质检)
Gurnahꎬ growing up in Zanzibarꎬ an island off the coast of
Tanzaniaꎬ was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He is the first Black writer 1. the prize since Toni
Morrison in 1993ꎬ and some observers saw his 2. as a long
delayed corrective(矫正) after years of European and American
Nobel laureates(获奖者). In his 10 novelsꎬ Gurnah has often
explored the 3. of exile(流放)ꎬ identity and belonging.
They 4. Memory of Departureꎬ Pilgrims Way and Dottieꎬ
which all deal with the immigrant(移民) experience in Britain.
Gurnahs first language is Swahiliꎬ but he 5. English
as his literary language. He drew on the imagery and stories from
the Quranꎬ 6. from Arabic and Persian poetryꎬ particularly
The Arabian Nights. The news of Gurnahs Nobel 7. by
fellow novelists and academics who have long argued that his
8. deserve a wider audience.
Gurnah was born in Zanzibarꎬ which is now 9. of
Tanzaniaꎬ in 1948. Thenꎬ in 1964ꎬ he fled to England.
10. ꎬ poorꎬ homesickꎬ he began to write scraps(片段) in
his diaryꎬ then 11. entriesꎬ then stories about other
people. In his 20sꎬ he started 12. fiction. Then he finished
his first novel Memory of Departureꎬ about a young man who flees
a failed uprisingꎬ and at the same time he was writing his Ph. D.
dissertation(论文). 13. ꎬ he became a professor of English.
Though Gurnah hasnt lived in Tanzania since he was a
14. ꎬ his homeland always inspires his imagination.
15. ꎬ he saidꎬ“My homeland always asserts myself in my
imaginationꎬ even when I deliberately try to set my stories
elsewhere. ”
1. A. to receive B. to confirm
C. to search D. to appreciate
2. A. section B. selection
C. collection D. consultation
3. A. themes B. opinions
C. passages D. suggestions
4. A. explode B. conclude
C. provide D. include
5. A. advised B. adapted
C. adopted D. affected
6. A. as much as B. as long as
C. as often as D. as wel