The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to former U.S.Poet Laureate（桂冠詩人）Louise Gluck.The prize committee cited "her unique poetic voice that with plain beauty makes individual existence universal".Gluck is the first American woman to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993.Gluck，77，joins a list of literary giants and previous Nobelists who include，in this century，Canadian short-story master Alice Munro，Chinese magical-realist Mo Yan，etc.
   Gluck's work includes 12 collections of poetry and a few volumes of essays on literary writing. "All are characterized by a striving for clarity（清晰）.Childhood and family life，the close relationship with parents and siblings，is a theme that has remained central to her，" Anders Olsson，the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature，said. "She seeks the universal，and in this she takes inspiration from myths and classical motifs，" Olsson added，citing her 2006 collection Averno，which the committee described as "masterly" for its "visionary interpretation of the myth of Persephone's （珀?duì)柸Ｄ?fall into hell in the captivity （囚禁） of Hades（哈得斯），the god of death".
   Being a professor at Yale and a resident of Cambridge，Gluck also served as U.S.Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004 and is no stranger to awards.She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection of poems titled The Wild Iris，in which "she describes the incredible return of life after winter in the poem Snowdrops，" the Nobel literature committee said Thursday.She also won the 2014 National Book Award for the poem Faithful and Virtuous Night.In 2016，President Obama awarded the National Humanities Medal to Gluck in a White House ceremony.
   The publicity-shy Gluck did not immediately issue any comment about the latest honor for her body of work，which spans more than half a century.In a 2012 interview，she acknowledged that prizes can make "existence in the world easier" but did not amount to the immortality（不朽） of a true artist.

（1）What can we know about Gluck from Paragraph 1？

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A．She is as popular as the Chinese novelist Mo Yan.
B．She won the Nobel Prize for her special literary style.
C．She is the first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
D．She is the only Poet Laureate in modern American history.
（2）What do Gluck's poems mainly focus on？

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A．Daily life.
B．Nature.
C．Careers.
D．Classical myths.
（3）What is the purpose of Paragraph 3？

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A．To show Gluck's contributions to literature.
B．To prove Gluck's great passion for writing.
C．To present Gluck's outstanding achievements.
D．To stress Gluck's influence on other poets.
（4）What does Gluck think about the honor she has received？

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A．She is content with it.
B．She takes it very seriously.
C．She deserves a higher honor.
D．She doesn't attach great importance to it.