In the 1920s, he was sent to Europe as a newspaper correspondent to 17 such events as the Greek Revolution.
答案：(A) cover
cover 固定用法「報導」，記者「報導」希臘革命等事件；approve（批准）、predict（預測）、escape（逃離）都不合。
本題大考中心未公布逐題答對率，以下不談數據，只談觀念。
四個選項都是動詞，中文是報導、批准、預測、逃離，如果沒看清楚主詞是「記者」，會覺得 predict（預測）跟革命這種大事好像也有關係。
四個選項都是動詞，可見這一格考的是搭配與語意。先看主詞：he was sent to Europe as a newspaper correspondent to ___ such events as the Greek Revolution（他被派到歐洲擔任報社特派員，去……希臘革命之類的事件）。a newspaper correspondent（報社特派員）的工作就是報導新聞，而英文裡「報導某個事件」的固定說法是 cover：cover an event、cover a story、cover the election（報導選舉）。所以填 cover。cover 這個字，你的印象大概只有「覆蓋」，但它在新聞語境裡是最基本的用字——同一個字換一個領域，意思會完全不同，這正是這一格要考的。
predict（預測）：記者是去報導已經發生或正在發生的事，不是去預言。approve（批准）：記者沒有批准革命的權力，語意荒謬。escape（逃離）：他是被派去的，不是去逃難。
cover an event（報導事件）、a newspaper correspondent（報社特派員）、such events as（……之類的事件）、be sent to（被派往）、a journalist（記者）、start one’s career as（以……展開職業生涯）。
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.