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Two newspapers that revealed government secrets about spying by the National Security Agency — The Washington Post and The Guardian — will share the Pulitzer Prize for public service, announced Monday.
The Pulitzers are the best known and most honorable awards for the arts and journalism in the U．S. The Washington Post and Guardian stories were based on thousands of documents handed over by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. American and British lawmakers criticized the newspapers for revealing government secrets, but the Pulitzer judges, mostly journalists, praised what they called “authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the revealing fits into the larger system of national security.”
The Pulitzer for fiction goes to Donna Tartt for her bestselling novel The Goldfinch. The Pulitzer judges called Tartt's The Goldfinch “a beautifully written comingofage novel that touches the heart”. It follows a sad boy's involvement with a famous painting which he takes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a terrorist bombing. USA TODAY named it one of our 10 favorite books of 2013. In a 4star review for USA TODAY, Kevin Nance called the novel a “very entertaining, darkly funny new book, that goes a long way toward explaining why its author is finally securing her place alongside the greatest American novelists of the past halfcentury, including John_Updike,_Philip_Roth,_Toni_Morrison_and_that_other_latterday_Dickensian,_John_Irvine.”
The annual prizes, begun in 1917, are named for publisher Joseph Pulitzer and are administered by Columbia University in New York City. In 20 of the categories, each winner receives D|S10,000. The winner for public service in journalism is awarded a gold medal.
语篇解读：文章介绍了普利策奖的获奖者。
1．The Washington Post and The Guardian won the prize for ________.
A．disclosing government secrets
B．supporting Snowden financially
C．promoting new national security
D．making the government annoyed
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据文章第一段可知答案。
2．What can we learn about The Goldfinch?
A．It is based on many documents.
B．It is a fiction of terrorist attacks.
C．It has received favorable comments.
D．It is badly thought of by judges.
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据文章第三段第二句话“The Pulitzer judges called Tartt's The Goldfinch ‘a beautifully written comingofage novel that touches the heart’．”可知答案。
3．What can we infer from the underlined names in the third paragraph?
A．They are all former Pulitzer Prize winners.
B．They all support Kevin Nancy's opinions.
C．They are judges of this year's Pulitzer Prize.
D．They are outstanding American novelists.
解析：选D 推理判断题。前文提示“the greatest American novelists of the past halfcentury”他们中包括哪些人，所以答案只能选D了。
4．What is the main idea of the text?
A．Donna Tartt and her bestselling book.
B．Annual Pulitzer Prize winners announced.
C．Debates over what Edward Snowden did.
D．The criteria of the annual Pulitzer Prize.
解析：选B 主旨大意题。根据文章内容和结构可知文章讲的是普利策奖的获奖者。
