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[originaltext] Ernest Hemingway was one of the great American writers of the
[originaltext] Ernest Hemingway was one of the great American writers of the
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Ernest Hemingway was one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. He was born on July 21, 1899, the second of six children. His family was strict and very religious. His father taught his children a love of nature and the outdoor life. His mother taught him a love of music and art. (26) He graduated in 1917, but he didn’t go to college. He went to Kansas City and worked as a journalist for the Star newspaper. He learned a lot, but left after only six months to go to war.
Hemingway was fascinated by war. He had wanted to become a soldier, but couldn’t because he had poor eyesight. (27) Instead, in the First World War, he became an ambulance driver.
After the war, he went to live in Paris, where he was encouraged in his work by the American writer Gertrude Stein In the 1930s, he became a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Many of his books were about war. (28) His most successful book, For Whom the Bell Tolls, was written in 1940 and is about the Spanish Civil War.
Another novel, A Farewell to Arms, is about the futility of war.
Hemingway’s success in writing was not mirrored by similar success in his personal life He married four times. His health was not good and he had many accidents. He suffered from depression and drunk heavily. In October of 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, but he was too sick to receive it in person.
26.What can we learn about Ernest Hemingway?
27.What did Hemingway do during the First World War?
28.What is Hemingway’s famous book For Whom the Bell Tolls about?
选项
A、The Spanish Civil War.
B、The First World War.
C、The Second World War.
D、The futility of war.
答案
A
解析
海明威的《丧钟为谁而鸣》写的是有关西班牙内战的事情。答案应为A 。
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