5．A first-time novelist，Viet Thanh Nguyen，has won the 2016Pulitzer Prize for fiction．He won the prize for his book，"The Sympathizer．"The Pulitzer judges described Nguyen's book as an immigrant's story told through the voice of"a man of two minds，and two countries…"
The book is set in both Vietnam，where the author was born，and the United States，where he was raised．
Critics（文學(xué)批評家）have praised"The Sympathizer"as all exciting spy story with emo-tional depth and humor：It tells about a group of South Vietnamese army officers who escape to the United States at the end of the Vietnam War．Among them is a captain who is secretly loyal to the Viet Cong．He reports to Viet Cong officials about the group and their lives in Los Angeles．
Nguyen came to the United States with his family in 1975when he was very young．They lived for several years in a refugee camp in Pennsylvania．They settled in San Jose，California．Nguyen studied at the University of California，Berkeley，where he earned a doctorate in Eng1ish．Now he is a professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California．He has published three non-fiction books and some short stories．
The writer told the Los Angeles Times that it was important to him when the writers Toni Morrison and Jhumpa Lahiri won Pulitzers． He called their wins landmarks for writers of color and Asian American writers．Nguyen said Morrison's work influenced his choice to write for，in his words，"people who are intimate to me and not to think that I was writing for a white audience first．"
Viet Thanh Nguyen is not the first person to win a Pulitzer for a first novel．But，it is a rare event．
Other 2016 Pulitzer winners include the poetry prize for"Ozone Journal"by Peter Balakian and the drama prize for the musical"Hamilton．"
28．Which of the following is true about the book"The Sympathizer"？D
A．It is a non-fiction book．
B．It is set in the Vietnam War．
C．It was written for a white audience．
D．It is well received by critics．
29．What's the correct time order of the following events？C
①Nguyen won the 2016Pulitzer Prize for fiction．
②Nguyen earned a doctorate in English．
③Toni Morrison and Jhumpa Lahiri won Pulitzers．
④Nguyen came to the United States with his family．
A．①②③④
B．②①④③
C．④②③①
D．④②①③
30．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5suggest？B
A．It is easy for writers of Asian-American writers to succeed．
B．Racial discrimination still exists in the US society．
C．Toni Morrison and Jhumpa Lahiri are white writers．
D．Nguyen has little confidence as all Asian-American writer．
31．Which would be a proper title for the passage？A
A．Vietnamese Immigrant's First Novel Wins Pulitzer Prize
B．"The Sympathizer"-an exciting spy story
C．Nguyen-"a man of two minds，and two countries"
D．2016Pulitzer winners awarded．
分析 本文介紹了贏得了2016pulitzer獎的小說家Viet Thanh Nguyen，文章講述了他的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷，得普利策獎前所受的影響，所作出的努力等．
解答 28．D．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章"people who are intimate to me and not to think that I was writing for a white audience first"可知，這本小說的作者是為一名白人觀眾而寫的．故選D．
29．C．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第三段描述可知，Nguyen來到美國后，在加利福尼亞大學(xué)獲得了博士學(xué)位．之后開始自己的寫作生涯．根據(jù)文章第四段描述可知，Nguyen受當代作家Toni Morrison 和Jhumpa Lahiri 獲得 Pulitzers事件的影響，為之努力，終于在2016年也獲得了這項獎項．根據(jù)時間順序推理，故選C．
30．B．細節(jié)理解題．劃線句子中，他稱他們是作家中勝利標志和亞洲裔美國作家．從"Asian American writers"可看出，美國仍然存在種族歧視．故選B．
31．A．主旨大意題．本文講述的是贏得了2016pulitzer獎的小說家Viet Thanh Nguyen的故事．文章講述了他的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷，得普利策獎前所受的影響，所作出的努力．故選A．
點評 本文考察學(xué)生文學(xué)類閱讀文章的閱讀水平，閱讀這類文章時，也應(yīng)該在整體把握文章結(jié)構(gòu)的前提下，主要注意細節(jié)信息．細節(jié)題題干都是相應(yīng)原文的變形（如同義改寫、詞性轉(zhuǎn)換等），因此要找到答案一定要找到題干在原文中的出處，再把原文和選項相比較．做題時，根據(jù)所提問題用尋讀、跳讀的方法可達到事半功倍的效果
