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跟踪导练（一）4 　　阅读理解 　　A 　　One of the most popular literary figures in American literature is a woman who spent almost half of her long life in China， a country on a continent thousands of miles from the United States. In her lifetime she got this country’s most honored literary award， the Pulitzer Prize， and also the most prestigious （有?望的） form of literary recognition in the world， the Nobel Prize for literature. 　　Pearl Buck was almost a household word throughout much of her lifetime because of her literary output， which consisted of some eighty-five published works， including several dozen novels， six collections of short stories， fourteen books for children， and more than a dozen works of non-fiction （非小说）. 　　When she was eighty years old， some twenty-five books were awaiting publication. Many of those books were set in China， the land in which she spent so much of her life. Her books and her life served as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West. 　　Her background （背景） as the product of those two cultures made her into an unusually interesting and versatile （多才多艺的） human being. As we examine the life of Pearl Buck， we cannot help but realise that we are in fact meeting three different people： a wife and mother， an internationally famous writer， and a humanitarian （人道主义者）. One cannot really get to know Pearl Buck without learning about each of the three. Though honored in her lifetime with the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in addition to the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize， Pearl Buck as a total human being， not only a famous author， is a fascinating subject of study. 　　1. What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage？ 　　A. To introduce Pearl Buck to readers. 　　B. To show Pearl Buck’s views on Chinese literature. 　　C. To offer information about the works of Pearl Buck. 　　D. To discuss Pearl Buck’s influence on the cultures of the East and the West. 　　2. Pearl Buck is known as a writer of ___ .