Mall ofFew Words
Everyone chases success,but not all of us want to be famous South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is__for keeping himself to himself When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier this month, reporters were warned that they would find himparticularly difficult to___.
Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago He seemed___by the news that he won the US$1 3 million prize It came as a complete surprise.1 wasnt even aware they were due to make the announcement,he said.
His___of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend Pnize-giving in Stockholm,Sweden,on December 10. But despite being described as____to track down,the critics agree that his Writing is easy to get to know
Born in Cape Town,South Africa,to all English-speaking family,Coetzee___his breakthrough in 1980 with the novelWaiting for the BarbariansHe____ his place among the worlds leading writers with two Booker prize victories,Britains highest honour for novels He first_____in l983fortheLife and Times of Michael kand his second title came in 1999 forDisgrace
A major theme in his work is South Africas former apartheidsystem,which divided whites from blacks____with the problems of violence,crime and racial division that still exist in the country his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid____within.
I have always been more interested in the past than the future,he said in a rare interview. The past___its shadow over the present.I hope I have made one or two people think ____about whether they want to forget the past completely.
In fact this purity in his writing seems to be__in his personal life.Coetzee is a vegetarian,a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesnt drink alcohol.
But what he has___to literature,culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up.In looking at weakness and failure in life,the Nobel prize judging panel said,Coetzees work____the divinespark in man.
51A looked after B well known C locked D protected
52 A catch B hold C run into D bump into
53 A reported B influenced C distorted D shocked
54 A like B devotion C love D attraction
55A difficult B easy C ready D complex
56 A forced B made C caused D did
57 A gave B listed C tood D arranged
58 A received B obtained C won D had
59 A Dealing B Handling C Solving D Removing
60 A in B out C of D from
61 A covers B displays C spreads D casts
62 A once B twice C three times D four times
63 A written B hidden C mirrored D stricken
64 A contributed B distributed C attributed D showed
65 A tell B says C informs D expresses
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51.B 52.A 53.D 54.C 55.A
56.B 57.C 58.C 59.A 60.D
61.D 62.B 63.C 64.A 65.D