His writing style, characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as 11 his life of adventure.
答案：(C) did
as did his life of adventure 是「as ＋ 助動詞 ＋ 主詞」的倒裝結構，did 代替前面的動詞 influenced，避免重複：他充滿冒險的一生同樣也影響了現代小說；was、being、doing 都無法擔任這個代動詞。
答對率 14%。
句尾的 as 後面沒有一般動詞、只有一個助動詞加主詞，你會覺得句子「缺了東西」。其實不缺——did 就是那個動詞，它代替前面的 influenced。as did his life of adventure ＝ as his life of adventure influenced modern fiction。
Do you like it?—Yes, I do.（do 代替 like it）、So do I.、Neither do I.——用一個助動詞頂替整個動詞片語，避免重複。
正式書面語中，as 或 than 之後可以把助動詞放到主詞前面：I knew the answer, as did Tony.（我知道答案，湯尼也知道）／The children are bilingual, as are their parents.。本句主詞較長，倒裝後讀起來更順。
as did／does ＋ 主詞（…也是如此，倒裝）、so do I（我也是）、neither do I（我也不）、be characterized by（以…為特色）。
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His writing style, characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as 11 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 12 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 13 .
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 14 lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose is particularly effective in his short stories, some of 15 are collected in Men Without Women (1927). In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Idaho in 1961.