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PAGE PAGE 9 TOEFL Simulation Test Reading 托福模拟考试 — 阅读 Version 01-K Reading Passage 1 The Life and Work of J.D. Salinger Writer J.D. Salinger will always be remembered for his most famous character, Holden Caufield. The protagonist of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, Caufield became the voice of the disaffected youth not only for his generation those coming of age in the early 1950s but for generations to come. The struggle to reconcile innocence and youth with the pressures and expectations of the wider world is a theme that run not only through Salinger’s work, but his life as well. [A] Jerome David Salinger was born in New York City in 1919 to an upper middle class family. His father was a manager in a successful cheese and meat importing company. As an adolescent, Salinger attended public schools as well as military academy. He dropped out of several colleges in New York, opting instead to immerse himself in the Greenwich Village literary scene. [B] This route paid off for Salinger; he had his first work published in 1940 in Story magazine, after making the acquaintance of some of New York’s most prestigious editors. Salinger’s literary career, however, soon took a back seat to events overseas. Despite a mild heat condition, Salinger volunteered to fight in World War II and was sent to Europe. [C] One of the few bright spots during his time in Europe was meeting the writer Ernest Hemingway, with whom Salinger developed a lasting correspondence While Salinger’s experience of the war certainly left him traumatized, when he returned to New York, he more or less picked up where he left off. [D] Before the war, he had started writing a series of stories about a young man who suffers a nervous breakdown in the middle of Manhattan. These would later form the basis for Salinger’s first and only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, published in 1951. →Parallels Holden Caufield’ s and Salinger’s lives are evident, especially as far as their educational careers are concerned