题型：阅读选择 题类：模拟题 难易度：普通
广东省广州市2020年中考英语模拟试卷（五）
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896,an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman Schooland attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the armyand was sent to Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had tomake some money to impress her.
His life withher was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: "My own happinessin the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the persondearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of itin my diary."
This side of Paradise, his first novel, waspublished in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to spend more timeon his writing. Then he continued with the novel theBeautiful and Damned(1922), a collection of short storiesTales of the Jazz Age(1922), and a playThe Vegetable(1923). But his greatestsuccessful novel, The Great Gatsby, publishedin 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary (文学) world. Yet it failed to give himenough money to live. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short storiesAll the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald'sproblems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried toreorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first mental breakdown andwent to a Swiss hospital. During this period he completed novelsTender Is the Night in 1934. While his wifewas in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol (酗酒). Fitzgerald died in 1940, beforehe could complete the novelThe Love of theLast Tycoon.
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published the novelThis Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He tried to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
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