Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school teacher. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, came out in 1950 while she was studying at the University of Western Ontario. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk (职员).
Munro’s first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文学的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互关联的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was published. This book earned Munro a second Governor General’s Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. In 1980, Munro held the position of writer in residence (住校) at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection about once every four years.
On 10 October, 2013, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is known as a “master of the contemporary (当代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Where does Alice Munro come from?
A. the USA. B. Canada.
C. Australia. D. England.Which of the following shows the correct order of the events?
① Munro wrote the collection—Lives of Girls and Women.
② Munro won the Governor General’s Award for the first time.
③ Munro did part-time jobs as a waitress, a tobacco picker and a library clerk.
④ Munro came to China for a trip.
| A．③①②④ | B．②①③④ |
| C．④②③① | D．③②①④ |
The best title of the passage should be “_________”.
| A．The first woman Nobel Prize winner—Alice Munro |
| B．Alice Munro—Master of the contemporary short story |
| C．Munro’s collection of interlinked stories |
| D．How can one receive the Nobel Prize in Literature |
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When
16～20 September, 2013 (Monday to Friday)
3:00 p. m.～5:00 p. m.
Where Cost
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Aims
After the camp, you will be able to:
·understand the rules of the game
·carry the ball with your feet
·pass the ball to other players using your feet
·kick the ball towards the goal(球门)
Please come in comfortable shorts, T-shirts and sports shoes.
For more information, please call us at 01159515092, or email us at KS_ soccer camp @hotmail. com. ukThe camp is for the children who _______.
| A．are good at soccer | B．are 15～17 years old |
| C．come from King's School | D．want to relax in camp |
The camp will start on _______.
| A．September 16 | B．September 20 |
| C．Sunday | D．Friday |
If you want to join the camp, you should pay _______ for it.
| A．$5 | B．$6 | C．$7 | D．$10 |
Students in the camp can learn all the skills EXCEPT _______.
| A．carrying the football | B．kicking a goal |
| C．passing the football | D．making game rules |
Which of the following seems to be the most attractive(吸引) to children?
| A．The camp lasts for 5 days. |
| B．The camp doesn't cost much. |
| C．The camp is organized by King's School. |
| D．The coaches will be national soccer players. |
阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项完成句子。
（5小题，计10分）
Hello! I’m Paul. I’ m in China with my parents. I love China. I am very busy on Monday. I go to school at 8:00. At 8:30, I have Chinese. I like it because it’s very interesting. But it’s difficult and my classmates help me. At 10:00 I have math. It’s boring and I don’t like it. But the teacher says it’s useful. I have music at 11:00, it is my favorite subject. It is fun. I have lunch at school at 12:00. The food is very good and healthy. My classes finish at 3:00, but after that I have sports for one hour. It is really relaxing. I go home at 4:00.Paul like _______.
A. Chinese and music
B. math and music
C. Chinese and mathPaul has math at _______.
A. eight thirty B. ten C. elevenPaul doesn’t like math because he thinks it’s _________.
A. difficult B. fun C. boringPaul has _______ at school.
A. breakfast B. lunch C. dinner Paul has sports _______.
A. from 1:00 to 2:00
B. from 2:00 to 3:00
C. from 3:00 to 4:00 .
My name is James.
In my family there’s my mother—Anna, and my father—John, and my brother—Jeff. Jeff is the joker(滑稽的人) in the family, and we like him.
My mom’s parents will visit us this Sunday. They’re very cool. Tony, that’s my grandfather, He likes music very much, and Grace, my grandmother, can dance (跳舞).
Look at the photo. These are my mom’s brother and his wife, Uncle Peter and Aunt Emma, and their son, Bill. Bill likes to play computer games, and we have a good day this Sunday.
We each have a memory. That’s why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do the again and again. Many of the great men of the world have got surprising memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning languages. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages as easily as one because they hear， remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.
But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.Some people can easily learn many things by heart because __________ .
| A．they always sleep well |
| B．they often eat good foot |
| C．they read a lot of books |
| D．they have very good memories |
Everybody learns his mother language __________ .
| A．at the age of six |
| B．when he is a small child |
| C．after he goes to school |
| D．when he can read and write |
In school the pupils can’t learn a foreign language easily because __________ .
| A．they have no good memories |
| B．they have no good teachers |
| C．they don’t like it |
| D．they are busy with other subjects |
Your memory will become better and better __________ .
| A．if you have a lot of good food |
| B．if you do more and more exercises |
| C．if you do morning exercises every day |
| D．if you get up early |
Once there lived an old man. He liked gold（金子）better than anything else in the world. He often said, “If I have enough gold, I will be the happiest man in the world.”
One day when he was traveling（旅行）in the desert(沙漠), the old man lost his way. He was very hungry and thirsty, but there were only rocks and sand around him. Just then, he found a bag lying on the sand. He hoped he would find water and food in it. He took up the bag and opened it. He saw that the bag was full(满的) of gold. He was so sad that he threw away（扔掉）the bag and began crying.
Now, the old man knew that there was something better than gold in the world.The old man liked ____ best before he traveled in the desert.
| A．food | B．water | C．gold | D．money |
When he lost his way, he wanted to get ____.
| A．food or water | B．rocks and sand |
| C．bags full of gold | D．food and water |
The old man did not become the happiest man when he got the bag of gold because ____.
| A．the bag was too small |
| B．the gold wasn’t his |
| C．he was very hungry and thirsty |
| D．he didn’t like gold at all |
In the end, the old man knew that gold was ____ in the world.
| A．the best thing | B．the worst thing |
| C．better than anything | D．not the best thing |
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