Question

    Doris Lessing, a novelist whose books have swept across continents and reflected her concern about the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award came with about $1. 6 million.

Ms Lessing never finished high school and largely educated herself through reading. She has written dozens of books of fiction, as well as plays, non-fiction and two volumes of autobiography. She is the 11th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Ms Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in what is now Iran. Her father was a bank clerk, and her mother was trained as a nurse. Attracted by the promise of farming riches, the family moved to Zimbabwe, where Ms Lessing had what she had called a painful childhood.

She left home when she was 15, and in 1937 she moved to Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia, where she took jobs as a telephone operator and a nursemaid. She married at 19 and had two children. A few years later, feeling as if she were put in prison, she deserted her family. Afterwards she married Gottfried Lessing, and they had a son.

When she divorced Mr Lessing, she and her son, Peter, moved to London, where she began her writing career. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in Britain in 1949. Ms Lessing's strongest influence may be that she inspired a generation of feminists（女权主义者）with her breakthrough novel, The Golden Notebook. The book was published in 1962, which wrote about the story of Anna Wulf, a woman who wanted to live freely and was, in some ways, Ms Lessing's secondary personality. She wrote about the inner lives of women and rejected the opinion that they should abandon their lives to marriage and children.

1.Ms Lessing's family moved from Iran to Zimbabwe because______________.

A.farming could make them become well off

B.her laid-off parents could find jobs

C.she could receive a better education

D.she could have a chance to take up writing

2.It can be learned from the passage that__________.

A.Doris Lessing is Ms Lessing's pen name

B.Doris May Tayler is the name of Ms Lessing's birthplace

C.Anna Wulf is Ms Lessing's name used before

D.Doris May Tayler is Ms Lessing's once-used name

3.Which of the following statements is true?

A.Ms Lessing is the llth person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

B.Ms Lessing got down to writing after graduation from high school.

C.Ms Lessing married three times and had three children.

D.Ms Lessing disapproved of women abandoning their lives to their marriage.

4.We can know from the passage that________.

A.Ms Lessing's writing career took off in her twenties

B.The Golden Notebook was about Ms Lessing's broken marriage life

C.Ms Lessing's books are in connection with social and political issues of her time

D.the failure of Ms Lessing's marriages was due to her devotion to her career

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.D

4.C

【解析】

本文为记叙文。本文主要介绍了小说家多丽丝·莱辛的生平及作作品。她的作品在各大洲很受欢迎，反映了她对当时社会和政治问题的关注。她曾在2007年获得诺贝尔文学奖, 一生向往自由, 是一位女权主义者。

1.细节理解题。由文章第三段中“Attracted by the promise of farming riches, the family moved to Zimbabwe...”可知, 一家人受农业财富的吸引，搬到津巴布韦。由此可得出他们全家搬到Zimbabwe是想致富。well off 意为“过得好，富裕”, 故A项正确。

2.推理判断题。由第三段第一句“Ms Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in what is now Iran.” 莱辛女士1919年出生于现在的伊朗，出生时名字叫Doris May Tayler。Doris May Tayler曾是她的名字，故选D项。

3.细节理解题。根据最后一段最后一句“She wrote about the inner lives of women and rejected the opinion that they should abandon their lives to marriage and children.”可知，她描写了女性的内心世界，反对那种认为女性应该把全身心投入到婚姻和孩子的观点。故D正确。第二段最后一句“She is the 11th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.”可知A项中的“Ms Lessing is the llth person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.”的“the llth person”应为the 11th woman，故A项错误。倒数第二段最后一句和倒数第一段可知她第二次婚姻破裂搬到伦敦后，她才开始写作，而B项（说莱辛女士“高中毕业后”开始写作），B项错误。 C项应是married twice。故正确答案为D项。综合可知D项正确。

4.推理判断题。由文章第一段“Doris Lessing, a novelist whose books have swept across continents and reflected her concern about the social and political issues of her time” 她的作品反映了她对当时社会和政治问题的关注。可知莱辛女士的书与她那个时代的社会和政治问题有关，故C项正确。