2019高三英语星级阶梯阅读练习三星级54ASTOCKHOLM, Oct11 （Xinhua） - Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on ThursdayThe Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 is awarded to Chinese writer Mo Yan who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary, said Englund at a press conferenceMo Yan, a pseudonym for Guan Moye, was born in 1955 and grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in eastern ChinaHis parents were farmersAs a 12-year-old during the Cultural Revolution he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factoryIn 1976 he joined the Peoples Liberation Army and during this time began to study literature and writeHis first short story was published in a literary journal in 1981In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birthThis is apparent in his novel Hong gaoliang jiazu （1987, in English Red Sorghum 1993）, said the academy in a statement of Mos biographyThe 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 biographyRed Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang YimouThrough 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 statementIn addition to his novels, Mo Yan has published many short stories and essays on various topicsIn spite of his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors, the statement addedDozens of his works have been translated into English, French and Japanese and many other languagesLast years literature prize went to Swedish poet Tomas TranstromerAlfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, established the Nobel Prizes in his will in 1895The first awards were handed out six years later26Where can you possibly read tins article?AIn a magazine BAt the front of a novelCIn a Business brochure Don the newspaper27Which of the following Is closest in meaning to the underlined word pseudonym in paragraph 3?Aeldest son Bgovernment leader Cpen name Dauthor28Mo Yan started to earn his life Ain 1967 Bin 1976 Cin 1981 Din 198729Which of the following statements is true?AMo Yan started to write stories when he turned 20BThe stories in Red Sorghum describes both country and city lifeCMo Yans works are widely read at home and abroadDBesides writing novels, Mo Yan produced a film30The Nobel Prize was set up .Aby a SwedeBby the Swedish Academy is StockholmCin the 18th centuryDto award greast literary figuresBThe day began with clear sunlight and blue skiesIt soon turned into years of war, economic breakdown and political division. Ten years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon（五角大楼）on September 11,2001, America has come out of the smoke a very different countryNearly 3,000 people died on September 11Suddenly America had to wake up to the fact that not everyone loves the USSAMembers of al-Qaeda, the militant group that earned out the attacks, were angry about US support for the Israelisagainst Palestinians in the Middle East, about US troops in Saudi Arabia, and about sanctions （制裁）against IraqSeptember 11 and the years that followed were a shock to our national consciousness, said Nicholas Bums, American ambassador to NATO （北约） at the timeThe terrorists struck not only the buildings, but also Americans- faith in their powerThe fear that America had lost control of events as widespreadIn the name of fighting terrorism, the US launched wars in Iraq and AfghanistanMore than 6,000 Americans have diedTens of thousands of ordinary people in those countries have also lost their livesBut deaths are only part of the storyThe world was shocked by photographs of Americans torturing （折磨） Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison in BaghdadDavid Goldstein, a reporter with The Kansas City Star, questioned American behavior: Has torturing so-called terrorists saved American lives or made the values we advocate around the world weaker? Is that what weve become?However, a brief moment of national unity did occur straight after 9/11Americans were coming together in an unusually powerful way in the ashesWe live in a bittersweet memory of that collective tragedy and collective possibili