Bob Dylan has own the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Sara Danius, Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary, on Oct. 13, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Swedish Academy said it chose Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. “As an artist, he is outstandingly all-round: he has been an active painter and actor," said the official statement. U. S. President Barack Obama congratulated Dylan on Twitter, describing him as one of his favorite poets.

Singer and songwriter Dylan is recognized worldwide for the influence he has had on music. He became a symbol of the 1960s counterculture (反主流文化) but his voice has reached widely into the American past. Since early in his career, Dylan has experimented with the combination of the literary and the musical.

Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel prediction for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the award to a genre (體裁) such as pop music. He’s the first American winner of the Nobel Literature Prize since Toni Morrison in 1992. The choice was met by a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. Sara Danius said that while Dylan performs his poetry in the form of songs, that’s no different from the ancient Greeks, whose works were often performed to music.

Dylan’s early rock classics such as The Times They Are A-Changin’, and A Hard Rains Gonna Fall, help to get cross the thoughts and feelings of the counterculture. The music publication Rolling Stone released a list of the “100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs” in honor of his 75th birthday earlier this year.

1.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A. What Nobel Prize Dylan won in 2016.

B. How Dylan influences music worldwide.

C. Who congratulated Dylan on winning the prize.

D. Why Dylan was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize.

2.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “extend” in Paragraph 4?

A. allocate B. deliver C. offer D. compensate

3.What do we know about Dylan from the text?

A. He is Barack Obama’s favorite finger.

B. He performs poetry in the form of songs.

C. He had never been expected to win a Nobel Prize.

D. He is the first American to win the Nobel Literature Prize.

4.What’s the journalists’ attitude towards Dylan’s winning the Nobel Literature Prize?

A. Favorable. B. Objective. C. Skeptical. D. Uncaring.

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