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.
答案：(C) confrontation
語意「在這種『對抗』中失去希望與信念」，confrontation（對抗）符合，呼應前文set against（對抗）現代社會的殘酷方式；limitation（限制）、classification（分類）、modification（修改）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 -tion 結尾的抽象名詞，長得很像、中文卻差很遠（限制、分類、對抗、修改），如果沒抓到前一句的關鍵字，只能猜。
四個選項都是名詞，可見這一格考的是語意，那就往前讀。前半句是 tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society（強悍、有時甚至原始的人物，他們的勇氣與正直被擺在現代社會的殘酷手段對立面）。關鍵在 set against（與……對立、對抗）——這一句已經把「對抗」的關係講出來了。本句接著說 and who in this ___ lose hope and faith（而他們在這場……中失去希望與信念），那個「這場」指的就是前面那個對立，所以填 confrontation（對抗、衝突）。
limitation（限制）：講的是能力或範圍的界線，不是兩方對立的局面。classification（分類）：與人物和社會的衝突無關。modification（修改）：講的是修正某樣東西，語意完全不合。
a confrontation with（與……的對抗）、be set against（與……對立）、lose hope and faith（失去希望與信念）、the brutal ways of（……的殘酷手段）、courage and honesty（勇氣與正直）、primitive（原始的）。
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.