AmericansingerandsongwriterBobDylanwontheNobelLiteratur...

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American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2016. Dylan was chosen “for    61     (create) new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” 

Some people were    62     (excite) to see the news. Author Salman Rushdie called Dylan a “great choice.” U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Dylan on Twitter. He described Dylan as one of his favorite    63    (poet). Others were not sure that a famous and    64     (success) musician needed to win a literature prize    65    his work. They thought the Academy should have picked a writer who would gain new readers because of the award.

Dylan is the first American    66     (win) the prize since writer Toni Morrison won in 1993.

Dylan was born in 1941 in the Midwestern U.S. state of Minnesota. He was brought up in a Jewish middle-class family. Dylan taught himself to play the guitar, harmonica and piano. He first started   67  

(perform) in the late 1950s in coffee shops in his home state. Dylan moved to New York City in 1959. He hoped to make    68    in the growing folk music scene in Greenwich Village. Folk musicians of that time    69     (most) performed songs from America’s past.   70    , Dylan began to write his own music.

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 66. to win        67. performing       68. it         69. mostly      70. However

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