Mo Yan, 2012’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Mo Yan, 2012’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature（诺贝尔文学奖），was born in the small town of Gaomi in Shandong Province. His parents were farmers. And（1）a a young boy Mo took care of the family’s goats（山羊）. Each day he took the goats outside and （2）w over them they ate grasses.

It was a （3）l job, but Mo was a smart boy. He enjoyed the green, open land of Sandong. He enjoyed （4）l up at the blue sky and the white clouds. To pass the time, he talked to the goats. He told them his thoughts and some stories. It was the （5）b of his life as a storyteller.

（6）D the Cultural Revolution（文化大革命）， Mo had to leave school and work for a company. This was （7）d for Mo, because he loved books and he loved reading. (8)L , he found a friend who would lend him books. Later, Mo became a soldier and to continue his education. In the end he graduated from Beijing Normal University (北师大). This is where he began to write.

（9）A Mo had left Gaomi, Gaomi never left him. Many of his books talk about rural （农的）life and the people of Gaomi. For Mo, all of man nature can be （10）s in the village life of Gaomi. Mo is famous now, but he remains （保持）a true son of soil （土地）.

1. 第一题断句在boy后面，后面是个主句。那么第一个空需要一个介词，a young boy 是个身份，可以填as，如果是个从句，可以填when （he was a boy.）。

2. 第二题，放羊的过程。把羊带出去，然后看着羊吃草。这里要填看着，监督之类的词，我们有look，see, watch, etc以w开头，那我们填watch，但是这里要考虑时态，所以应该和took并列，所以填watched。

3. 这个空肯定是填个贬义词，因为很明显要表达莫言在不好的环境中走出新的天地。这个空可以boring， 但这里是l打头，可以填lonely。