第6部分:完形填空 (第51~65题,每题1分,共15分) 阅读下面的短文,文中有15处空白,每处空白给出了4个选项,请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案,涂在答题卡相应的位置上。 Mall ofFew Words Everyone chases success,but not all of us want to be famous outh African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is__ (51)for keeping himself to himself hen the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier this month,reporters were warned that they would find himparticularly difficult to___(52). Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago e seemed___(53)by the news that he won the US$1 3 million prizeIt came as a complete surprise.1 wasnt even aware they were due to make the announcement,he said. His___(54)of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend nize-giving in Stockholm,Sweden,on December 10. But despite being described as____(55)to track down,the critics agree that his riting is easy to get to know Born in Cape Town,South Africa,to all English-speaking family,Coetzee___(56)his reakthrough in 1980 with the novelWaiting for the Barbarians(野蛮人)He____(57) his place among the worlds leading writers with two Booker prize victories,Britains highest ur for novels He first_____(58)in l983fortheLife and Times of Michael kand his second title came in 1999 forDisgrace major theme in his work is South Africas former apartheid(种族隔离)system,which ivided whites from blacks____(59)with the problems of violence,crime and racial ivision that still exist in the country his books have enabled ordinary people to understand |