November not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison’s eagerly anticipated(期待) eighth novel, Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black woman to receive a Nobel, and so honored before her in literature are only two black men:Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992. But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel prizewinner for literature since 1962, the year novelist John Steinbeck received the award.
Like Song of Solomon, Love is a multigenerational story, revealing the personal and communal Legacy(遺產(chǎn)) of an outstanding black family. As Morrison scholars will tell you, Love is the third volume of a literary master’s trilogy(三部曲)investigating the many complexities of love. This trilogy began with Beloved(1988), which deals with a black mother’s love under slavery and in freedom. Jazzy(1993), the second volume, tells a story of romantic love in 1920s Harlem. This latest novel looks back from the 1970s to the 1940s and 50s.
The emotional center of Love is Bill Cosey, the former owner and host of the shabby Cosey’s Hotel and Resort in Silk, North Carolina, described in the novel as “the best and best-known vacation sport for colored folk on the East Coast.” We get to know Cosey through the memories of five women who survive and love him: his granddaughter, his widow, two former employees, and a homeless young girl.    
The latest novel, Love, had been described in the promotional material from her publisher as “Morrison’s most accessible work since Song of Solomon.” This comparison to her third novel, published in 1977, was an effective selling point.
小題1:What would be the best title for the text?
A．Toni Morrison’s latest novels
B．Toni Morrison and her trilogy
C．Toni Morrison and her novel Love
D．Toni Morrison, the Nobel prizewinner
小題2:What can we learn about John Steinbeck?
A．He was a black writer.
B．He was born in America.
C．He received the Nobel Prize after Morrison
D．He was the first American novelist to win a Nobel
小題3:The similarity between Love and Song of Solomon is that they both _____.
A．belong to the same trilogy together with Beloved
B．concern families of more than one generation
C．deal with life of blacks under slavery
D．investigate life in 1920s Harlem
小題4:The novel Love mainly describes ______.
A．the best-known vacation spot for blacks
B．the life of an outstanding black family under slavery
C．the miserable experience of the five women in Harlem
D．the memories of five women about Bill Cosey

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:D

小題1:本題考查歸納主旨大意的能力。綜觀全文，本文主要介紹了美國黑人作家，諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)獲得者Toni Morrison的背景及最新一部小說Love 的一些細(xì)節(jié)。
小題2:本題考查根據(jù)文章有關(guān)細(xì)節(jié)進(jìn)行推理判斷的能力。由第一段最后一句話 “But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel prizewinner for literature since 1962, the year novelist John Steinbeck received the award.”可以推斷正確答案為B。
小題3:歸納概括題。依據(jù)第二段第一句話 “Like Song of Solomon, Love is a multigenerational story, revealing the personal and communal Legacy(遺產(chǎn)) of an outstanding black family.”可知正確答案為B。multi—是形容詞前綴，表示“多”, multigenerational多代的
小題4:本題考查理解細(xì)節(jié)信息的能力。由倒數(shù)第二段的描述可推斷出正確答案為D項(xiàng)。
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A．To get ready to fight.B．To frighten it away.
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