The Swedish Academy has named Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. It also announced that it was honoring Austrian Peter Handke with the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Academy cancelled the prize last year after many members fled the
organization following sexual abuse accusations linked to it.
The Academy said it awarded Tokarczuk for imaginative writing that “represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
The Polish writer’s first published work came in 1989, a book of poetry called Cities in Mirrors. Her first novel, The Journey of the Book-People, was published in 1993. Last year, Tokarczuk became the first Polish writer to win Britain’s Man Booker Prize for International Literature for her novel Flights. Her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, was on the short list of nominees for the 2019 prize as well. That prize went to another writer. Tokarczuk spoke Thursday with readers hours after she won the Nobel. “I can only write. ”She said.
The Swedish Academy said it named Peter Handke winner of the 2018 prize for “influential work that with linguistic gift has explored the boundary and the specificity of human experience. ” Handke’s first novel was published in 1966. He also writes plays and is a political organizer. The Austrian writer was an opponent（反对者）of NATO’s air attacks against Serbia in the Kosovo war of thelate1990s.He was a supporter of the Serbian government under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic. He has denied that Bosnian Serb troops carried out a campaign killing of 8, 000 locals in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. As a result, some critics are angry that he was given the Nobel Prize.
At home in Paris Thursday, Handke called the decision to give him the literature award “courageous. ” He said the recognition gave him “a strange kind of freedom.”
28. Which of Tokarczuk’s works won Britain’s Man Booker Prize?
A. Cities in Mirrors.                B. Flights.
C. The Journey of the Book-People    D. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
29. What does the underlined word “nominees” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.A candidate to be selected to an office. B.A candidate seeking a kind of position.
C.A candidate chosen by a political party. D.A candidate being considered for an honor.
30. How does Peter Handke find the Nobel committee?
A. Fearless.        B. Awesome.       C. Strange.      D. Embarrassed.
31. What’s the best title of the text?
A. Peter Handke from Austria Win 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
B. Olga Tokarczuk from Poland Win 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
C. Writers from Austria and Poland Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
D. Writers from Poland and Austria Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.       [文章大意]瑞典文学院宣布波兰作家奥尔加·托卡尔丘克为2019年诺贝尔文学奖得主。该院还宣布奥地利作家彼得·汉德克获得2018年诺贝尔文学奖。
28.B  细节理解题。根据第三段前四句话判断。这位波兰作家的首部作品是发表于1989年的《镜子里的城市》诗集。她的第一部小说《书中人物旅行记》于1993年出版,去年,托卡尔丘克凭借其小说《航班》成为首位获得英国布克国际文学奖的波兰作家。她的小说《让你的犁头碾着死人的白骨前进》也入围了该奖项2019年度的人围名单。最终获奖者另有其人。
29.D  词义猜测题。根据第三段倒数第二句话判断。她的小说《让你的犁头碾着死人的白骨前进》也人围了该奖项2019 年度的人围名单。最终获奖者另有其人。
30.A   细节理解题。根据最后一段倒数第二句话判断。周四,汉德克在巴黎的家中表示,将诺贝尔文学奖授予他的行为是“果敢的”。
31.C   主旨大意题。本文介绍了获得2018年、2019年诺贝尔文学奖的两位文学家。