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浙江泰顺县2016高考英语（二轮）阅读理解选练（2） 【2015高考复习】阅读理解 Toni Morrison was known as one of the most famous fiction writers in America.She has written nine novels，many essays and lectures and several childrens books. Toni Morrison was born in 1931 in Lorain，Ohio.She took the nickname Toni in college.She started reading early in life and it was always a huge pleasure.In 1949，she entered Harvard University in Washington，D.C.She studied English literature and later received a masters degree from Cornell University in Ithaca，New York.After college she married Harold Morrison and had two children.Their marriage ended in 1964. Morrison became an English professor and she loved nothing more than to discuss new books with students.But she realized that she needed to write when she discovered she wanted to read a book that had not yet been written. That book turned out to be The Bluest Eye，published in 1970.Toni Morrison wrote about a little black girl who believes she would be beautiful and happy if she only had the blue eyes of a white girl. Morrisons next novel，Sula，was published in 1973.It received great praise and was nominated (提名) for the National Book Award.Her third novel，Song of Solomon，won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Many people think Beloved is Toni Morrisons best work，which was published in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.Beloved tells the story of a slave haunted by the horror of killing her own baby girl. Morrison says she does not have a favorite among her own books and that whatever book she is currently working on is the one that interests her most.However，in 2008，she told the television host Charlie Rose that there was a book she considered her best.She achieved the goals she set for herself in the novel Jazz and it had the finest writing and ideas. Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.She was the first African American to receive the award.The Nobel Committee said the imaginative force and poetic voice of her writing ga