题型：语法填空（语篇） 题类：真题 难易度：困难
山东省淄博市2019年中考英语试卷
Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway's father(teach) him early on how to hunt and fish, two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life. Instead of (go) to college, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star.
Later, in Europe, he worked as a driver the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years , he moved to Paris, where he hoped to improve his writing. There he became friends with other (America) writers, including
Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Hemingway developed style of writing that was simple and direct. He chose words sparingly(俭省地), avoided using adjectives, and trusted the reader to understand (mean) of his writing. As he put it, "I always try (write) on the principle(原则) of the iceberg(冰山). There is seven eighths of it under water for every part that shows. "This style continues to influence Writers today. In his career(生涯), which lasted some 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of the finest writers of the(twenty) century.
For a while Emest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes(脚趾), which a ship's captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are (child) of Hemingway's six-toed cat. Hemingway was married four times and had three sons. He died in 1961.
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