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V. Discourse Structure 5%Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1928, in the small town of Aracataca, Colombia. He started hiscareer as a journalist, first publishing his short stories and novels in the mid-1950s. __46__ Still a prolificwriter of fiction and journalism, García Márquez was perhaps the central figure in the so-called LatinBoom, which designates the rise in popularity of Latin-American writing in the 1960s and 1970s. OneHundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important, and the most widely read, text to emerge from thatperiod. It is also a central and pioneering work in the movement that has become known as magical realism,which was characterized by the dreamlike and fantastic elements woven into the fabric of its fiction.In part, the magic of García Márquez’s writing is a result of his rendering the world through a child’seyes: he has said that nothing really important has happened to him since he was eight years old and that theatmosphere of his books is the atmosphere of childhood. __47__ In both towns, foreign fruit companiesbrought many prosperous plantations to nearby locations at the beginning of the twentieth century. By thetime of García Márquez’s birth, however, Aracataca had begun a long, slow decline into poverty andobscurity, a decline mirrored by the fall of Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude.Even as it draws from García Márquez’s provincial experiences, One Hundred Years of Solitude alsoreflects political ideas that apply to Latin America as a whole. __48__ Similarly, Macondo begins as a verysimple settlement, and money and technology become common only when people from the outside worldbegin to arrive. In addition to mirroring this early virginal stage of Latin America’s growth, One HundredYears of Solitude reflects the current political status of various Latin American countries. Just as Macondoundergoes frequent changes in government, Latin American nations, too, seem unable to producegovernments that are both stable and organized. The various dictatorships that come into power throughoutthe course of One Hundred Years of Solitude, for example, mirror dictatorships that have ruled in Nicaragua,Panama, and Cuba. __49__ But his depictions of cruel dictatorships show that his communist sympathies donot extend to the cruel governments that Communism sometimes produces.One Hundred Years of Solitude, then, is partly an attempt to render the reality of García Márquez’s ownexperiences in a fictional narrative. Its importance, however, can also be traced back to the way it appeals tobroader spheres of experience. One Hundred Years of Solitude is an extremely ambitious novel. To a certainextent, in its sketching of the histories of civil war, plantations, and labor unrest, One Hundred Years ofSolitude tells a story about Colombian history and, even more broadly, about Latin America’s struggles withcolonialism and with its own emergence into modernity. __50__ It is, in the end, a novel as much aboutspecific social and historical circumstances—disguised by fiction and fantasy—as about the possibility oflove and the sadness of alienation and solitude.
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(A) García Márquez’s real-life political leanings are decidedly revolutionary, even communist: he is a friendof Fidel Castro.
(B) García Márquez’s native town of Aracataca is the inspiration for much of his fiction, and readers of OneHundred Years of Solitude may recognize many parallels between the real-life history of GarcíaMárquez’s hometown and the history of the fictional town of Macondo.
(C) García Márquez’s masterpiece, however, appeals not just to Latin American experiences, but to largerquestions about human nature.
(D) Latin America once had a thriving population of native Aztecs and Incas, but, slowly, as Europeanexplorers arrived, the native population had to adjust to the technology and capitalism that the outsidersbrought with them.
(E) When One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in his native Spanish in 1967, as Cien años desoledad, García Márquez achieved true international fame; he went on to receive the Nobel Prize forLiterature in 1982.

參考答案

答案：E
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(1),B(1),C(1),D(2),E(5)

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