In 2000the Chinese novelist Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for literature（诺贝尔文学奖）．He was the first Chinese writer（61）___ （win） the world's most important literary prize．It is said that his work （62）___ （open） new ways for the Chinese novel．
Gao was born in 1940in Jiangxi Province，Eastern China．His father worked in a bank and his mother （63）___（ be） an actress．She encouraged Gao's interest in the theatre．
When he left school，Gao （64）___ （study） French at the Department of Foreign Languages in Beijing．After （65）___ （graduate） from college，he left China to live and wok in France in 1987．Since that time he （66）___ （work） as a translator，．theatre director and novelist．His most famous work is the novel Soul Mountain（灵山）．The story（67）___ （happen） in the Chinese countryside And the novels has been changed into many languages．
The Nobel Prize in 2000was about＄915，000．The Nobel Prizes（68）___（ include） prizes for different kinds of sciences and the Nobel Peace Prize．The money was left b y Alfred Nobel．He said that the literature prize（69）___（accept） an author whose work moves in an"ideal direction"（理想的方向）．
The Nobel Prizes（70）___（give） to the winners by the Swedish King every year on December10，the anniversary（周年纪念） of Nobel's death in 1896．
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