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The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
Prize motivation: “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse (诗歌), by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”
William Faulkner (1949)
Prize motivation: “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1953)
Prize motivation: “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory (演说才能) in defending exalted human values”
Ernest Miller Hemingway (1954)
Prize motivation: “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”
John Steinbeck (1962)
Prize motivation: “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception”
Claude Simon (1985)
Prize motivation: “who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition”
Mo Yan (2012)
Prize motivation: “who with hallucinatory (幻觉般的) realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”
Bob Dylan (2016)
Prize motivation: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
语篇解读：本文向我们介绍了八位著名的诺贝尔文学奖获得者的获奖原因。
1．Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?
A．William Faulkner. B．Bob Dylan.
C．Rabindranath Tagore. D．Claude Simon.
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据标题Rabindranath Tagore (1913)部分中的“because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse (诗歌), by which, with consummate skill ...”可知，拉宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔因为诗歌而获得诺贝尔文学奖。故选C项。
2．Which writer won Noble Prize mostly for his specific work?
A．Ernest Hemingway. B．John Steinbeck.
C．William Faulkner. D．Winston Churchill.
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据标题Ernest Miller Hemingway (1954)部分中的“for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea ...”可知，海明威主要是凭借《老人与海》这部小说获奖，其他获奖者的获奖理由中并未提及具体作品。故选A项。
3．Who described real life experiences in his historic works?
A．John Steinbeck. B．Mo Yan.
C．Ernest Hemingway. D．Winston Churchill.
解析：选D 推理判断题。根据标题Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1953)部分中的“for his mastery of historical and biographical description ...”可知，丘吉尔精通历史和传记写作，故D项正确。
