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.Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (50 minutes。t always been easy, and there have been many challenges and sacrifices, 18 months later, Mark is still living this way. He told CNN he has really loved it and never been happier or fitter. 15 Mark39。s adventure without money has taught him a lot, and he has inspired many others along the way, but he remains philosophical about his success. 24 I just get up each morning and try and say if it happens, it happens, he says. 25 I39。s health. Clarence was very depressed, and just before Christmas, he shot himself. A hurting Hemingway finished A Farewell to Arms, and it was successful. Again he had turned his experiences into powerful fiction. If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them, Lt. Frederic Henry reflects. This is one of the most beautiful pages in all English literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of this page of the manuscript (手稿,草稿). The writing, the friendships, and the family relationships continued.2 Hemingway39。s second son, Gregory, was born in November 1931. The intimate side of Hemingway as son, husband, father, and successful big brother is revealed in his letters to his family. He was very much involved in their lives and concerned about their welfare, often more than they wished. He gave financial support and unsolicited (主動提供的) advice. He was sometimes heavyhanded, especially with his sisters and his sons, but he always cared. 4 As with his friends, he formed strong feelings for or against the people his family were involved with. He would have four wives and divorce three times, but he felt he was right when he strongly objected to the man his sister Carol wished to marry. When she went ahead with the marriage, Hemingway broke with her for the rest of his life.(Hemingway Sees Dead Strewing (散步,散播) Battlefield, A New Kind of War, The Chauffeurs (司機) of Madrid, A Brush with Death, Hemingway Finds Madrid Calmly Fighting Own War). He translated this experience into seven more short stories, the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the play The Fifth Column.9 In Sloppy Joe39。B) (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage。 By the end of March, Martha had made it to Spain, too, and she and Hemingway both covered the war. The affair continued until their marriage November 5, 1940, the day after Pauline39。 nor a bar room fighter。s response was Kiss my ass. 3s beloved boat the Pilar from Havana, Bimini, and Key West。s about 70 percent/30 percent. But I try not to get too worked up about it。s call to be the change you want to see in the world. After six years working as the manager of an organic food pany in Bristol, UK, he decided to strike out in a bold new direction. 4 I was sitting around with a friend one night in 2007 discussing the world39。 45 points)Section 1: True/False/Not Given and Multiple Choice Questions (30 points)Directions: There are two passages in this part. Each passage has ten questions or unfinished statements. The first five statements in each passage are True/False/Not given statements. You should mark “A)”, for True, “B)”, for False and “C)” for Not Given。s remarkable journey is relayed in his new book, The Moneyless Man, which along with detailing the practical challenges on the rocky road towards his new world, also explains the philosophy that drives him that human society is fairer, happier and more secure when relationships are not mediated (以…為媒介) by money. 16 Any profits from the book will be invested in buying land to create a Freeconomy munity, where people can experiment living together without money. 17 Public interest in his project has been divided. While a huge number of people are very supportive, there has been harsh criticism of him, particularly on Internet forums.18 People tend to be either very positive about what I39。m just trying to take life as it es and enjoy it along the way. (803 words)For questions 4650, choose A) (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage。s lean (清晰的,簡潔的), disciplined style made the writing and the living seem simple. He focused on one point and wrote very clearly about that point. But if we put all the stories together, all the pieces, a very plex picture emerges. Neither the living nor the writing was easy. There39。 (The marriage lasted.)5 In 1933 Pauline39。s in December 1936, Hemingway met a lovely young novelist and journalist from St. Louis—Martha GellhornC) (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.56. One of the sons of Ernest Hemingway was born in June 1928 in Kansas City. 57. Lt Frederick Henry is one of the close friends of Ernest Hemingway and a famous literature critic. 58. In 1923, Ernest Hemingway saw bullfighting for the first time in a city of Spain. 59. In 1932, Ernest Hemingway signed treaties of bullfighting. 60. Ernest Hemingway went to Spain in the year of the breakout of the Spanish Civil War. For questions 6165, choose the one that best pletes the sentence or answers the question.61. The following are the themes described in the novel “A Farewell to Arms” EXCEPT ____. A) CourageB) FriendshipsC) family relationshipD) the beauty of literature62. Hemingway’s writing enjoys the characteristics of ____.A) SimpleB) ComplexC) Both simple and plexD) Neither simple and plex63. According to paragraph 2, Hemingway39。like a kudu (非洲大羚羊) head.39。 not as a man who had been to the wars。s Magazine, Hemingway had six months to struggle with the ending. He left fortyfour pages of alternate (不同的) endings, a record even for the meticulous (細致的,挑剔的) Hemingway, who would write out or retype a page until he was satisfied with it. Fitzgerald sent Hemingway ten handwritten pages of ments on the draft of the novel, and Hemingway39。C) (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in t