2017届四川省苍溪县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选练：2（含答案）_高考复习指南

2017届四川省苍溪县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选练：2（含答案）

　　"In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth．This is apparent in his novel Hong gaoliang jiazu （1987, in English Red Sorghum 1993）," said the academy in a statement of Mo's biography．

　　The book consists of five stories that unfold and interweave in Gaomi in several turbulent decades in the 20th century, with depictions of bandit culture, the Japanese occupation and the harsh conditions endured by poor farm workers, according to the biography．Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou．

　　Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition, the academy commented in the biographical statement．

　　In addition to his novels, Mo Yan has published many short stories and essays on various topics．In spite of his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors, the statement added．

　　Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French and Japanese and many other languages．

　　Last year's literature prize went to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer．

　　Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, established the Nobel Prizes in his will in 1895．The first awards were handed out six years later．本文叙述了中国作家莫言摘取2017年诺贝尔文学奖，他出生于农民家庭，他在军队里时开始从事写作，写作的主要的素材就是来自他的农村的生活，他最出名的代表作就是《红高粱》。26．Where can you possibly read tins article?