Neatly putting an emphasis on his storytelling skill is how writer Mo Yan began his Nobel Lecture in Literature speech, “Storyteller”, on Friday （Saturday, Beijing time） in Stockholm.
For 40 minutes he talked about his mother’s
36 on him as a person and a writer, his literary inspirations, and how he
37 with the controversy（争论）that followed the announcement of his Nobel victory.
He told his audience that as a boy he told stories to cheer up his mother, and
38 that poverty and loneliness fueled his imagination as a writer after he grew up.
39 , authors such as William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40 him, he said, especially their bold and unlimited writing style.
“A person should be
41 in daily life, but follow one’s instinct（本能）and take control when it
42 to literary creation.”
He said the soul of
43 all of his works is the boy in Transparent Carrot who has an almost superhuman ability to bear
44 . He added that he also tried to make his hometown of Gaomi in Shandong Province a microcosm（缩影）of China and even the
45 .
His greatest challenge, he said, was writing novels that deal with
46 realities.
“In writing about the dark aspects of society there is a（n）
47 that emotions and anger allow politics to limit literature.”
He said literature must be
48 on real life but go beyond it.
He also mentioned the
49 surrounding his selection as Nobel winner, saying he was showered with many flowers.
50 he was a target for “stone throwers”.
“At first I thought I was the
51 of the controversies, but over time I’ve come to realize that the real target was a person who had
52 to do with me.”
Mo
53 his lecture by saying he was made to feel like an actor in a play with all the attention he was
54 , but he had decided that the best way to communicate his thoughts was to
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| 小题1: | | A．affection | B．influence | C．occasion | D．position |
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| 小题2: | | A．agreed | B．fought | C．dealt | D．did |
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| 小题3: | | A．added | B．warned | C．reminded | D．imagined |
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| 小题4: | | A．However | B．Otherwise | C．Therefore | D．Besides |
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| 小题5: | | A．preserved | B．inspired | C．entertained | D．taught |
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| 小题6: | | A．confident | B．certain | C．comfortable | D．modest |
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| 小题7: | | A．goes | B．comes | C．turns | D．gets |
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| 小题8: | | A．nearly | B．hardly | C．scarcely | D．always |
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| 小题9: | | A．danger | B．suffering | C．relieving | D．happiness |
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| 小题10: | | A．city | B．village | C．world | D．province |
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| 小题11: | | A．social | B．economical | C．agricultural | D．cultural |
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| 小题12: | | A．encouragement | B．danger | C．advantage | D．event |
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| 小题13: | | A．insisted | B．spent | C．based | D．passed |
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| 小题14: | | A．contradiction | B．contest | C．contrary | D．controversy |
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| 小题15: | | A．Meanwhile | B．Otherwise | C．However | D．Instead |
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| 小题16: | | A．goal | B．intention | C．target | D．purpose |
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| 小题17: | | A．somebody | B．anything | C．nothing | D．anybody |
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| 小题18: | | A．adopted | B．concluded | C．admitted | D．concerned |
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| 小题19: | | A．throwing | B．accepting | C．offering | D．receiving |
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| 小题20: | | A．carry on | B．take on | C．bring out | D．put out |
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