Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school teacher. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, came out in 1950 while she was studying at the University of Western Ontario. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk (職員).
Munro’s first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文學(xué)的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互關(guān)聯(lián)的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was published. This book earned Munro a second Governor General’s Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. In 1980, Munro held the position of writer in residence (住校) at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection about once every four years.
On 10 October, 2013, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is known as a “master of the contemporary (當(dāng)代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

小題1: Where does Alice Munro come from?
A. the USA.        B. Canada.     
C. Australia.       D. England.
小題2:Which of the following shows the correct order of the events?
① Munro wrote the collection—Lives of Girls and Women.
② Munro won the Governor General’s Award for the first time.
③ Munro did part-time jobs as a waitress, a tobacco picker and a library clerk.
④ Munro came to China for a trip.
A．③①②④B．②①③④
C．④②③①D．③②①④
小題3: The best title of the passage should be “_________”.
A．The first woman Nobel Prize winner—Alice Munro
B．Alice Munro—Master of the contemporary short story
C．Munro’s collection of interlinked stories
D．How can one receive the Nobel Prize in Literature

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:B

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了Alice Munro—現(xiàn)代短篇故事大師。出生在加拿大溫厄姆,安大略省，十幾歲開始寫作，出版了許多受人們喜歡的小說和書籍，2013年10月10日,Munro被授予諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)，成為加拿大第一個(gè)獲得諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)的女人。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第一段Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario.，或第二段Munro’s first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文學(xué)的) prize.可知她來自加拿大。
小題2:歸納理解題。根據(jù)短文描述事件的時(shí)間，故選D
小題3:標(biāo)題歸納題。根據(jù)短文的主旨大意主要介紹了Alice Munro—現(xiàn)代短篇故事大師，故選B。
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