Test3 One of the most popular literary __1__ in American literature is a woman who spent almost half of her long life in China. In her lifetime she __2__ the most highly acclaimed literary award in the Unite States: the Pulitzer Prize, and also the most prestigious form of literary __3__ in the world, the Nobel Prize __4__ Literature. Pearl S. Buck was almost a __5__ word throughout much of her lifetime because of her prolific (多 产 的 ) literary __6__, which consisted __7__ of some works, including several dozen novels, 6 collections of short stories, 14 books for children, and more than a dozen works of nonfiction. When she was 80 years old, some 25 volumes were __8__ publication. Many of those books were __9__ China, the land in which she spent so much of her life. Her books and her life __10__ as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West. As the __11__ of those two cultures she became, as she __12__ herself, "mentally bifocal (双 焦 点 的 ). " Her unique __13__ made her into an unusually __14__ and versatile human being. As we examine the life of Pearl Buck, we cannot help but be __15__ that we are in fact __16__ three separate people: a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer and a humanitarian and philanthropist (慈 善 家 ). One cannot really get to know Pearl Buck without learning __17__ each of the three. Though __18__ in her lifetime with even the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Pearl Buck as a __19__ human being, not only a famous author, is a captivating (迷 人 的 ) __20__ of study. 1. A. figures B. persons C. people D. writers 2. A. obtained B. achieved C. result D. earned 3. A. achievement B. recognition C. contribution D. creation...
