一、听力练习
1.
A. She published her first novel in 1995.
B. She won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
C. She was the first South Korean poet to win an award.
D. She wrote a book about the Gwangju massacre.
2.
A. The beauty of nature.
B. The challenges of being a writer.
C. Historical traumas and victims of violence.
D. The importance of family relationships.
3.
A. She felt confident about her writing abilities.
B. She faced personal challenges that made writing difficult.
C. She was supported by her family throughout the process.
D. She found the writing process to be easy and enjoyable.
二、听力文本
South Korean writer Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee said her work “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Born in 1970, Han Kang is the first South Korean to win the literature prize. Kang began her career in 1993 with the publication of several poems in Literature and Society. She published her first story in 1995 with Love of Yeosu. In 2016, Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian. It tells the story of a woman's decision to stop eating meat and her family's worry about her mental health. The novel was the first of her books to be translated into English and was seen as her major international breakthrough. In a talk with the Booker Prizes, published last year, Kang said the book was written during a difficult period in her life. She questioned whether she could finish the story or even survive as a writer. "I was suffering from severe arthritis...To this day, I feel awkward when I hear about the novel's ‘success,'” she said. In the novel Human Acts, Kang explored the 1980 killing of hundreds of students and unarmed civilians by the South Korean military in the city of Gwangju, where she grew up. "In seeking to give voice to the victims of history, the book confronts this episode with brutal actualization and, in so doing, approaches the genre of witness literature," the Academy said. Kang is the second South Korean to win a Nobel Prize. Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his efforts to restore democracy in the South and improve relations with North Korea. The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too centered on European and North American writings. It has also been awarded mainly to male writers. Kang is only the 18th woman to receive the award among more than 100 winners. Past winners of the prize include well-known writers like Irish poet W.B. Yeats, American writer Ernest Hemingway and Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In 2016, American singer Bob Dylan also received the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” Mats Malm is Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. He told reporters, “I was able to talk to Han Kang over the phone. She was having an ordinary day, it seems, she had just finished supper with her son." The prize comes with a money award of $1.1 million.
Question 1: What is the main achievement of Han Kang as mentioned in the news report?
Question 2: What theme is prominently explored in Han Kang's novel "Human Acts"?
Question 3: How did Han Kang describe her experience while writing "The Vegetarian"?
三、重点词汇
1. restore: If you restore a quality or ability that someone has not had for a long time, you make it possible for them to have that quality or ability again. 使恢复;使复原
四、背景知识
北京时间10月10日，2024年诺贝尔文学奖揭晓获奖名单。瑞典文学院宣布，将2024年诺贝尔文学奖授予韩国作家韩江，以表彰她用强烈的诗意散文直面历史创伤，揭示人类生命的脆弱。获奖奖金为1100万瑞典克朗（约合人民币744万元）。（背景知识来自于https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_28988883）
五、参考答案
Question 1: B
Question 2: C
Question 3: B
六、网络翻译
韩国作家韩江于周四获得2024年诺贝尔文学奖。瑞典文学院的诺贝尔委员会表示，她的作品“面对历史创伤，揭示了人类生命的脆弱”。韩江生于1970年，是首位获得该文学奖的韩国作家。她于1993年开始职业生涯，在《文学与社会》上发表了几首诗。她的第一篇小说《丽水之恋》于1995年出版。2016年，韩江凭借《素食主义者》获得了曼布克国际奖。该书讲述了一位女性决定停止吃肉后，她的家人对她心理健康的担忧。这部小说是她的作品中第一部翻译成英语，并被视为她在国际上的重大突破。在与布克奖的谈话中，韩江去年表示，这本书是在她生活中一个困难时期写成的。她曾怀疑自己是否能够完成这个故事，甚至怀疑自己能否继续作为一名作家生存。“我遭受着严重的关节炎……至今，我听到这部小说的‘成功’时仍感到尴尬，”她说。 在小说《人类行为》中，韩江探讨了1980年南韩军队在她成长的城市光州杀害数百名学生和无辜平民的事件。“通过为历史的受害者发声，这本书以残酷的现实化面对这一事件，因此接近证人文学的范畴，”学院表示。韩江是第二位获得诺贝尔奖的韩国人。前南韩总统金大中因其在恢复南韩民主和改善与北韩关系方面的努力，于2000年获得诺贝尔和平奖。诺贝尔文学奖长期以来受到批评，认为其过于集中于欧洲和北美的作品，并且主要授予男性作家。韩江是超过100位获奖者中第18位女性获奖者。该奖项的过去获奖者包括著名作家，如爱尔兰诗人W.B. 叶芝、美国作家欧内斯特·海明威和哥伦比亚的加西亚·马尔克斯。2016年，美国歌手鲍勃·迪伦因“在伟大的美国歌曲传统中创造新的诗意表达”而获得该奖。 瑞典文学院的常务秘书马茨·马尔姆告诉记者：“我能通过电话与韩江交谈。她似乎过着平常的一天，刚与儿子吃过晚饭。”该奖项的奖金为110万美元。
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