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high blood pressure ② sprained ankle ③ cold ④ heart failure ⑤ diabetes ．①②③ B. ①④⑤ C. ②④⑤ D. ①③⑤ )63. Which could be the title for the passage? . Shared activity is good for health . Two's company at the doctor's office . Being around others may help patients . What Leo and Francie have taught me
)64. What is the writing purpose of the passage?
. To show how family members help each other to improve health. . To persuade people to have more shared activities with partners. . To introduce the new practice of group doctor visits.
. To describe the great influence of having someone in the room.
oday the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded journalist Svetlana Alexievich approximately $970，000 in recognition of a lifetime of excellence. The 67－year－old author of Voices From Chernobyl and War's Unwomanly Face was praised by the Swedish Academy “for her polyphonic(复调式的) writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
rizes like the Nobel inspire much expectations before the announcement. People give their best guesses as to who will win，look back on past winners, and even place bets as if spectators at a Derby(赛马会)．
iterary prizes reward artistic brilliance. They help writers earn a decent living. But is the public's fascination with prize－winning authors healthy? Our impulse seems to increasingly contribute to a culture of turning authors into celebrities, where readers follow the author instead of the book. story should stand on its own, as a considered, complete book, without biographical information
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from author. It's an idea perhaps best conveyed in Roland Barthes's 1968 essay The Death of the Author. “The image of literature to be found in contemporary culture is arbitrarily centered on the author，his person, his history, his tastes, his passions.”
early 50 years later, a few still agree. “I believe that books，once they are written, have no need of their authors，” New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante once wrote. “If books have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won't，”she continued. “True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known.”
_①__ But the rules for submission for the Man Booker International Prize，for example, strongly encourage authors to “make themselves available for publicity”. And the foundation behind the National Book Award requires finalists to participate in their “website－related publicity”． _②__ In 2007，a reporter who showed up uninvited at Doris Lessing's house was the first to inform her that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Today the Twitterati came knocking on Alexievich's digital door hour before the award was even official. To be considered for a prize is to be a public figure.
_③__ Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling，with over 5.6 million Twitter followers, has actively addressed readers through public appearances and social media, revealing much more than we could have imagined when we closed the final Harry Potter book. We now know the house Harry's children will be sorted into, that Dumbledore is gay，“Voldemort” is actually pronounced with a silent “t”， and a whole host of the other minor and major details about the backstory of the characters.
he magical world Rowling created in her books—a relatively tight mystery with well－laid clues that led to a satisfying conclusion，which had to prove their merits to the reader based on an internal logic—is being unraveled by her own hand. _④__ Of course, public attention also has very important benefits for authors. For three months after receiving the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad sold about triple its print sales from before the prize, Publishers Weekly reports. On Oct. 5，2010, in the first FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards, as Nigerian－born Chigozie Obioma accepted the prize for fiction with an easy smile, his excitement was appreciable. Given the cash prize of $40，000 for each winner, it's hard to downplay the importance of such an honor. Such awards bring necessary visibility and funding to writers facing a literary landscape dominated by white men.
ut our culture of celebrity is often too wrapped up in the way we read: How might the meaning of a work change if the author really didn't grow up in a poor neighborhood, or if he or she was abused
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in childhood? Readers studied the author's life as if it were the key to interpreting his or her novels. ehind our fascination is the question that drives all such questions: What did the author intend? By all means, let us praise brilliant work and in doing so trust that the author has already told us enough, and that the story he or she meant to tell ended with the final page. )65. What can we learn from the passage?
. People wait for the Nobel Prize announcement calmly and patiently. . Roland Barthes thinks it necessary to read literature centered on authors. . Elena Ferrante holds that books should be read independently of authors' life. . The Man Booker International Prize discourages authors from publicity.
)66. What does the underlined word “unraveled” in Paragraph 9 probably mean? . Underlined. B. Unfolded. C. Updated. D. United.
)67. Which of the following is NOT the benefit of prize winning for authors? . It reveals more details about the characters in the book. . It dramatically increases the sales of the book. . It brings in necessary funding to authors.
. It brings about changes in dominance in literary landscape.
)68. Where can the sentence “Some authors satisfy, even encourage their fans. ” be best put in the passage?
. ① B. ② C. ③ D. ④
)69. What is the author's attitude towards our fascination with prize－winning authors? . Approval. B. Critical. C. Indifferent. D. Neutral. )70. What is the main idea of the passage?
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. To be awarded a prize is to be a public figure. . Public fascination with authors brings benefits. . Turning authors into celebrities is a bad culture. . There are big challenges for prize－winning authors.
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n twitter, a friend asked “Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance(常用词) in English? ” I replied that we've already had 35 years since Deng Xiaoping began opening China's economy, resulting in its stratospheric rise—but almost no recent Chinese borrowings in English.
any experts are willing to explain China to curious (and anxious) westerners. And yet I can't think of even one Chinese word or phrase that has become “common parlance in English” recently. The only word that comes close might be guanxi, the personal connections and relationships critical to getting things done in China. Plenty of articles can be found discussing the importance of guanxi, but the word isn't “common in English” by any stretch.
ost Chinese words now part of English are known, in their spelling and meaning, to have been borrowed a long time ago from non－Mandarin Chinese varieties like Cantonese. Kowtow, gung ho and to shanghai are now impeccably(无可挑剔地) English words we use with no reference to China itself. Kungfu, tai chi, feng shui and the like are Chinese concepts and practices westerners are aware of. And of course bok choy，chow mein and others are merely Chinese foods that westerners like; I would say we borrowed the foods, and their Chinese names merely hitched a ride into English.
iven China's rocket－ride to prominence(突起), why so little borrowing? We import words from other languages that are hard for English－speakers to pronounce. We borrow from languages with other writing systems (Yiddish, Russian，Arabic). We borrow from culturally distant places(India, Japan). We borrow not only from friends, but from rivals and enemies(German words in the Second
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