IV. Read the passage, and then answer the questions. The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.In 1953, The Old Man and the...
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IV. Read the passage, and then answer the questions.
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.
In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
1. Where was Ernest Hemingway from?
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2. When was The Old Man and the Sea published?
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3. What genre does The Old Man and the Sea belong to?
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4. What is the content of The Old Man and the Sea?
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5. When did Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Find and correct the mistake
1. This novel (A) was written (B) by (C) a famous author in Hue, isn't=> wasn't it (D)
2. She wanted to know (A) how (B) I used=> will use (C) English in the future (D)
3. I can speak a few => little(A) Englis and (B) I want to inprove (C) my speaking skill (D)
4. The (A) metting will be (B) from=> between (C) 8 a.m and 10 a.m next Sunday morning (D)
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