专业八级改错练习 第105期

Ismail Kadare, who was rewarded the Man Booker __1__
international Prize for literature this year, is the first Alabanian
writer to be taken notice in nearly 80 years. His classic novel, __2__
The General of the Dead Army, is a meditation on the consequences
of war, a hugely moved account of the meaning of duty and the __3__
tragedy that blind obedience entails.
It is early 1960s, nearly 20 years as the Second World War __4__
ended. An Italian General, accompanied with a sinister priest __5__
who is also Italian army colonel, is sent to Alabania to locate __6__
and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the
War and return them for burial in their native land. They are
armed with maps, lists, and other important informations such as __7__
measurements, dental and other records of the missing personnel.
The team tours the countryside, organizing digs and disinterment
and, as they try to find the dead sons of forgotten families, they
wonder at the sense and scale of their task. The General constantly
talks to the priest who is accompanying them the futility of __8__
war and the sheer meaningless of the whole enterprise.
As they go deeper into the Alabanian countryside they find
their footsteps follow, sometimes anticipated, by a fellow General __9__
who is also looking for bodies—the bodies of German countrymen.
Like this Italian counterpart, the German too struggles in the remote
countryside, against the cold and rain and the hostile terrain. It is a
thankless job looking for the remains of dead “souls” merely to take
them back home for a decent burial. Is it worthy the exercise? Isn’t __10__
this a mistaken sense of national honor?