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Bob Dylan has own the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Sara Danius, Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary, on Oct. 13, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Swedish Academy said it chose Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. “As an artist, he is outstandingly all-round: he has been an active painter and actor," said the official statement. U. S. President Barack Obama congratulated Dylan on Twitter, describing him as one of his favorite poets.

Singer and songwriter Dylan is recognized worldwide for the influence he has had on music. He became a symbol of the 1960s counterculture (反主流文化) but his voice has reached widely into the American past. Since early in his career, Dylan has experimented with the combination of the literary and the musical.

Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel prediction for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the award to a genre (体裁) such as pop music. He’s the first American winner of the Nobel Literature Prize since Toni Morrison in 1992. The choice was met by a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. Sara Danius said that while Dylan performs his poetry in the form of songs, that’s no different from the ancient Greeks, whose works were often performed to music.

Dylan’s early rock classics such as The Times They Are A-Changin’, and A Hard Rains Gonna Fall, help to get cross the thoughts and feelings of the counterculture. The music publication Rolling Stone released a list of the “100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs” in honor of his 75th birthday earlier this year.

1.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A. What Nobel Prize Dylan won in 2016.

B. How Dylan influences music worldwide.

C. Who congratulated Dylan on winning the prize.

D. Why Dylan was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize.

2.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “extend” in Paragraph 4?

A. allocate    B. deliver    C. offer    D. compensate

3.What do we know about Dylan from the text?

A. He is Barack Obama’s favorite finger.

B. He performs poetry in the form of songs.

C. He had never been expected to win a Nobel Prize.

D. He is the first American to win the Nobel Literature Prize.

4.What’s the journalists’ attitude towards Dylan’s winning the Nobel Literature Prize?

A. Favorable.    B. Objective.    C. Skeptical.    D. Uncaring.

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.B

4.A

【解析】本文介绍了2016年诺贝尔文学奖获得者Bob Dylan，介绍了他在音乐方面的成就及获奖理由。

1.段落大意题。第二段讲的是美国总统奥巴马对他的评价，作为一位艺术家，他在各个方面都非常杰出，这也是他获得诺贝尔奖的原因，故选D。

2.词义猜测题。根据文章可知，Bob Dylan已经几年都被提名，但是很少有专家预测到这个奖项会提供给一个流行音乐体裁，因此这个词的意思是“提供”，故选C。

3.细节理解题。根据第二段中的it chose Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.可知，他用歌曲的形式来写诗，故选B。

4.推理判断题。根据第四段中的The choice was met by a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement.可知，参加颁奖大会的记者们在宣布他获奖之后给予长久不绝的掌声，因此可以推断记者们对此都是支持的，故选A。