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Hemingway Exhibit Opens at JFK Library in Boston
Patrick Hemingway attends the show about his famous writer father, Ernest, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
The novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote 47 possible endings to his book "A Farewell to Arms." Eightof them are part of a new show at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston,Massachusetts. The ending that Hemingway finally chose is also there to see.
Patrick Hemingway is the writer’s only surviving child. This week, he visited the library show. Hesaid the exhibit shows how hard his father worked.
He said, "He always felt responsible for being where the action was. A lot of writers just retire totheir rooms and describe their childhood. He didn't do that."
The Kennedy Library holds the world's largest collection of documents, photographs and personalbelongings of the famous writer. Library Curator Stacey Bredhoff describes the Hemingwaycollection as one of the library's "greatest treasures."
The show is called "Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars." It includes material rarely shown inpublic. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City also presented the show last autumn.
Hemingway and Kennedy never met. However, Kennedy liked the writer’s work. Kennedy wrote toHemingway for permission to use the novelist’s expression "grace under pressure." Hemingwaywas too sick to accept an invitation to Kennedy’s inauguration in January of 1961. The writer killedhimself later that year.
The show also includes Hemingway's first short story. It was published in 1917 in a high schoolmagazine. Visitors can also see letters between Hemingway and other writers at the time.
Patrick Hemingway praised the show. "I am very pleased that they were able to put together in mylifetime a very comprehensive picture of a person who really represented very well the first half of the 20th century,'' he said.
Ernest Hemingway fled Finca Vigia, his home in Cuba, at the time of Fidel Castro's revolution. Thewriter left much of all he owned on the island.
After the writer died, President Kennedy sought Cuba’s permission for Hemingway's wife, Mary, tovisit the island and collect the belongings. A fishing boat transported the property from Havana toFlorida.
Mary Hemingway established a relationship with Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline, after PresidentKennedy was murdered in 1963. They later decided to keep the writer’s Cuba collection at theKennedy library.
Patrick Hemingway now lives in Bozeman, Montana. But he is represented in the show. Aphotograph shows him and his father on a deep sea fishing boat. Fishing was one of ErnestHemingway's great loves.
"He worked very hard in the morning but he never worked in the afternoon. He had a great life,''Patrick Hemingway said of his father.
Words in This Story
novelist – n. a writer of fiction books
curator – n. a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc
grace – n. a controlled, polite, and pleasant way of behaving
draft – n. a version of something (such as a document) that you make before you make the finalversion
stationery – n. paper that is used for writing letters and that usually has matching envelopes
comprehensive – adj. including many, most, or all things
拓展閱讀：
2016年12月大學英語四級聽力長對話9大原則
聽到長對話時，我們要做到邊聽邊選，抓住首位句，適當排除，考六級的同學還要學會同意替換，需掌握如下原則：
1.聽即原則：
所聽即所得，聽到什麼就選什麼(正好與短對話相反，短對話時聽到的一般不選)。
2. 重讀原則：
某單詞被反覆讀到或是在語音上加以重讀，因引起重視如果選項中出現很可能是正確答案。
3. 順序原則：
出題順序一般與行文順序相同，除了主題題和部分說明文。
4. 主題原則：
主題一般出現在段落的頭尾部分，所以要集中精力聽清前三句話和最後兩句話。
5. 原因原則：
凡出現表示原因，目的的'很有可能是考點如：because、so、as 等詞前後要著重聽。
6. 轉則原則：
凡出現表示轉則的詞如：but however yet 等，後面的句子往往是考點，要引起重視。
7. 光明原則：
事情一般都是向著好的方面發展的，主人公多數是大難不死的，事情總是逢凶化吉，絕處逢生的。
8. 窮學生原則：
學生一般都是比較窮的，不能繼續學業一般都是因為經濟原因，因為窮一般還比較喜歡DIY一些東西。
9. 偏怪小原則：
一般故事總是稀奇古怪的，經過總是曲折離奇的，結局總是出人意料的。宗旨就是意料之外、情理之中。
另外還有點需要提醒同學們，從2016年6月起英語四級聽力時間調整為25分鐘，考試起止時間調整為9:00—11:20，請特別注意。順祝大家複習順利，考試成功。
