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（文学批评家）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 本文介绍了赢得了2016pulitzer奖的小说家Viet Thanh Nguyen，文章讲述了他的求学经历，得普利策奖前所受的影响，所作出的努力等．
解答 28．D．细节理解题．根据文章"people who are intimate to me and not to think that I was writing for a white audience first"可知，这本小说的作者是为一名白人观众而写的．故选D．
29．C．细节理解题．根据文章第三段描述可知，Nguyen来到美国后，在加利福尼亚大学获得了博士学位．之后开始自己的写作生涯．根据文章第四段描述可知，Nguyen受当代作家Toni Morrison 和Jhumpa Lahiri 获得 Pulitzers事件的影响，为之努力，终于在2016年也获得了这项奖项．根据时间顺序推理，故选C．
30．B．细节理解题．划线句子中，他称他们是作家中胜利标志和亚洲裔美国作家．从"Asian American writers"可看出，美国仍然存在种族歧视．故选B．
31．A．主旨大意题．本文讲述的是赢得了2016pulitzer奖的小说家Viet Thanh Nguyen的故事．文章讲述了他的求学经历，得普利策奖前所受的影响，所作出的努力．故选A．
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