第 16 至 20 題為題組           Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His writing style,characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as __16__ his life of adventure.          Hemingway started his career as a journalist at 17. In the 1920s, he was sent to Europe as a newspapercorrespondent to __17__ such events as the Greek Revolution. During this period, he produced his earlyimportant works, including The Sun Also Rises. Among his later works, the most outstanding is The OldMan and the Sea (1952), which became perhaps his most famous book, finally winning him the PulitzerPrize he had long been __18__ .          Hemingway liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters—tough, at times primitive people whosecourage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this __19__ lose hopeand faith. His straightforward prose is particularly effective in his short stories, some of __20__ arecollected in Men Without Women (1927). In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.He died in Idaho in 1961.
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