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Kazuo Ishiguro has a number of strings to his bow, or rather bis guitar1 62-year-old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great singer and songwriter.His friend and former publisher Robert McCrum recalls him2 (turn)up at the publishing house Faber and Faber with a bunch of his stories in one hand and e guitar over his shoulder. It was his stories3 earned him the great honor.As his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a Britain citizen who writes in English. He4 (educate) at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers.Ishiguro"s writing is highly restrained. His characters are often reluctant to express themselves, except in a kind of code. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to whom he is often compared. The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day,5 (adapt) later into a successful film with the same name.The central character of the book is a butler called Stevens. He is an extremely loyal servant to an English lord, and is a character6 some might call repressed (压抑的). He is not willing to confess his feelings to anyone7 he misses out on (错失) affection and love.The story is told by Stevens and his style is as polite and unrevealing as his behavior. Of course we8 read between the lines to uncover the "real" story, which isn"t quite the one the butler is telling. Stevens finds it challenging9 (communicate), and communication is often a theme in Ishiguro"s novels.In his author"s sense of the world, there is a gap between our feelings and our ability to communicate 10. The Nobel Committee emphasized this theme when it talked about communicate Ishiguro"s work. The writer has, the committee claimed, "in novels of great emotional force...uncovered the abyss (深渊) beneath our illusory (虚幻的) sense of connection with the world."
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【文章解析】本文是说明文。讲述了诺贝尔文学奖得主日裔英国作家石黑一雄以及他著名的作品小说《长日留痕》，他的作品风格大多沉静克制，但在平静的表面下却隐藏着巨大的情感力量。考查冠词。根据语境，此处“特指62岁的（石黑一雄）”，用定冠词the，置句首首字母大写，故填The。【句意】石黑一雄不只会写作，他还有一手——弹吉他。现年62岁的他是位举世闻名的小说家。但他早年的梦想却是成为一位伟大的歌手和词曲作家。本文到此结束，希望对大家有所帮助。
