His writing style, characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as 16 his life of adventure.
答案：(C) did
did 在這裡代替前面已經出現過的一般動詞 influenced（避免重複講同一個動詞）。句意是「他的寫作風格影響了現代小說，他充滿冒險的一生『也』（影響了現代小說）」，後半句要表達「也一樣」，英文用「as + 倒裝」結構來代替重複的動詞。因為 influenced 是一般動詞（不是be動詞），倒裝時不能直接把動詞本身搬到主詞前面，必須借助助動詞 do/does/did 代替，且時態要跟被取代的動詞一致（influenced是過去式，所以用did）。A) was 只能代替be動詞，這裡前面是一般動詞不能用was代替；B) being／D) doing 是分詞形式，不是限定動詞，無法承擔倒裝句裡代替原動詞的角色。
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四個選項是 be 動詞、分詞與 do 的變化，你會先想「這一格要什麼詞性」，卻可能沒注意到句首那個 as——它把整句變成了一個倒裝的比較結構。
先看整句：His writing style, characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as ___ his life of adventure.（他的寫作風格以簡潔與含蓄著稱，影響了現代小說，而他充滿冒險的一生……。）關鍵在 as——這裡的 as 是「……也一樣」的意思，後面接的是一個倒裝的短句，用來說「另一樣東西也做了同一件事」。前面那個動詞是 influenced（一般動詞、過去式），要在後半句代替它、避免重複整個 influenced modern fiction，用的是助動詞 did：as did his life of adventure（他充滿冒險的一生也影響了現代小說）。這叫做動詞替代——用 do／does／did 代替前面出現過的一般動詞。掛鉤是你國中就會的簡答：Do you like it? — Yes, I do.（那個 do 代替的正是 like it。）同型的說法還有 So did I.（我也是）、As did many others.（其他許多人也是）。注意 as 後面接的是倒裝語序（動詞在主詞前面），這也是這一類句子的固定寫法。
was：be 動詞。前面那個動詞是 influenced 不是 be 動詞，替代時要用同一類的助動詞，一般動詞就得用 do 系列。being、doing：兩個都是分詞，不是限定動詞，撐不起「他的冒險生涯也影響了現代小說」這個完整的意思。
as did sb／sth（……也是，動詞替代）、So did I.（我也是）、Do you like it? — Yes, I do.（do 代替前面的動詞）、be characterized by（以……為特色）、understatement（含蓄的表達）、influence modern fiction（影響現代小說）。
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His writing style, characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as 16 his life of adventure.
Hemingway started his career as a journalist at 17. In the 1920s, he was sent to Europe as a newspaper correspondent to 17 such events as the Greek Revolution. During this period, he produced his early important works, including The Sun Also Rises. Among his later works, the most outstanding is The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which became perhaps his most famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize he had long been 18 .
Hemingway liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters—tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this 19 lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose is particularly effective in his short stories, some of 20 are collected in Men Without Women (1927). In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Idaho in 1961.