单选题 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(多产的) literary 6 which consisted of some 7 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(双焦点的)." 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 (慈善家). 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(迷人的) 20 of study.