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1、Women of achievementUnit 1话话 题题 导导 入入Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since it was founded in 1901.Munro, 82, only the 13th woman given the award, was praised by the Swedish Academy during the Nobel announcement in Stockholm as
2、the “master of the contemporary short story”Munro said she always viewed her chances of winning the Nobel as “one of those pipe dreams” that “might happen, but it probably wouldnt”. Munros daughter woke her up to tell her the news. “It just seems impossible. A splendid thing to happen. More than I c
3、an say，” she said, overcome with emotion. “My stories have gotten around quite remarkably for short stories, I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art, not something you play around with until you got a novel written.”Born in Ontario in 1931, Alice Anne
4、Laidlaw studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario in London before dropping out to marry James Munro, a fellow student. She became a fulltime housewife and mother of their children. She then moved to Victoria with her first husband and later returned to Ontario following their divorce.
5、 She married Fremlin in 1976.In June, she told the National Post she was “probably not going to write anymore”. Asked on Thursday whether she would reconsider that statement, Munro said _，“because I am getting rather old.”1What is the text mainly about? (no more than 15 words)答案：Alice Munro, the win
6、ner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.2Complete the following statement with a phrase from Paragraph 3.Alice Munro sees her winning the Nobel Prize as something of_.答案：a pipe dream3What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refer to? (no more than 5 words)答案：Winning the Nobel Prize.4Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words. (no more than 5 words)答案：she didnt think/she wouldnt/no
