单选题 Below is about the life of Ernest Hemingway (海明威)
1899 Born in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago.
1913 Goes to Oak Park and River Forest High School, where he wants to be a writer.
1917 Takes job in the Kansas City Star in October.
1918 On May 23 goes to Europe to work as a driver.
1922 In Paris meets writer Ezra Pound—"He's teaching me to write," Hemingway reported.
1925 In Our Time published (出版), with several stories set in Michigan.
1927 Publishes Men without Women, in which there are stories Hills Like White Elephants and The Killers.
1929 A Farewell to Arms—a book of love and war (战争)—published in September.
1932 Brings out his book Death in the Afternoon.
1933 Publishes Winner Take Nothing.
1937 Writes To Have and Hare Not.
1940 Publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls, his best-selling story.
1950 Publishes Across the River and into the Trees.
1952 The Old Man and the Sea, is published.
1953 Given the Nobel Prize (诺贝尔奖).
1961 On July 2, kills himself with a gun.
单选题 When was Hemingway born?
  • A. 1899
  • B. 1927
  • C. 1961
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[名师解析] 本文是有关海明威的生平纪事。海明威的出生日期就在第一栏,1899年。
单选题 In 1918, what did Hemingway do?
  • A. He was a solider.
  • B. He was a writer.
  • C. He was a driver.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[名师解析] 1918年海明威作了什么就该到1918年那栏去寻找。文中说他在欧洲当一名司机。因此选项C是正确的。
单选题 When was The Old Man and the Sea published?
  • A. 1937
  • B. 1952
  • C. 1953
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[名师解析] 在文中可找到The Old Man and the Sea(《老人与海》)这本书的出版是 1952年。
单选题 Which book is his best-selling book?
  • A. The Old Man and the Sea
  • B. A Farewell to Arms
  • C. For Whom the Bell Tolls
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[名师解析] 本题问哪本书是他的畅销书,如果不知道best-selling这个词也没有关系,因为在文中可以很明显地发现只有在1940年那栏中才出现这个词,因此应该是For Whom the Bell Tolls这本书。