Independent work I variant Reading task. Reading

1. Ernest Hemingway's style

A) was extremely satirical

B) influenced a great many American writers

C) made him the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

D) was criticized by most of the serious novelists

E) was analytical and critical

2. Until Sinclair Lewis,

A) no other writer had used satire

B) American writing was considered mediocre

C) the only successful writer was Ernest Hemingway

D) American life did not feature in novels

E) no American author had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature