英语四级考试完形填空的模拟练习题（52）

　　One of the most popular literary __1__ in American literature is a woman who spent almost half of her long life in China. In her lifetime she __2__ the most highly acclaimed literary award in the Unite States: the Pulitzer Prize, and also the most prestigious form of literary __3__ in the world, the Nobel Prize __4__ Literature.

　　Pearl S. Buck was almost a __5__ word throughout much of her lifetime because of her prolific literary __6__, which consisted __7__ of some works, including several dozen novels, 6 collections of short stories, 14 books for children, and more than a dozen works of nonfiction. When she was 80 years old, some 25 volumes were __8__ publication. Many of those books were __9__ China, the land in which she spent so much of her life. Her books and her life __10__ as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West.

　　As the __11__ of those two cultures she became, as she __12__ herself, mentally bifocal . Her unique __13__ made her into an unusually __14__ and versatile human being. As we examine the life of Pearl Buck, we cannot help but be __15__ that we are in fact __16__ three separate people: a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer and a humanitarian and philanthropist . One cannot really get to know Pearl Buck without learning __17__ each of the three. Though __18__ in her lifetime with even the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Pearl Buck as a __19__ human being, not only a famous author, is a captivating __20__ of study.

　　1. A. figures B. persons C. people D. writers

　　2. A. obtained B. achieved C. result D. earned

　　3. A. achievement B. recognition C. contribution D. creation

　　4. A. for B. to C. in D. on

　　5. A. familiarized B. recognizable C. mysterious D. household

　　6. A. output B. conception C. invention D. productivity

　　7. A. publishing B. published C. publicity D. publicized

　　8. A. waiting B. waited for C. awaited for D. awaiting

　　9. A. set in B. set aside C. set up D. set off

　　10. A. acted B. served C. provided D. supplied

　　11. A. outcome B. mixture C. product D. combination

　　12. A. called B. named C. termed D. described

　　13. A. history B. background C. setting D. childhood

　　14. A. interested B. interest C. interesting D. disinterest

　　15. A. aware B. conscious C. mindful D. responsive

　　16. A. dealing B. meeting C. analyzing D. distinguishing

　　17. A. from B. of C. about D. on

　　18. A. honor B. honorable C. honoring D. honored

　　19. A. comprehensive B. total C. complete D. genuine

　　20. A. topic B. area C. theme D. subject