The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to former U. S. Poet Laureate （桂冠诗人） Louise Gluck. The prize committee stressed "her unmistakable 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 Nobel Prize winners, including, 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 couple of volumes of essays on literary writing. "All are characterized by striving for（力求）clearness. Childhood and family life, the close relationship with families 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（神话）and classical themes," Olsson added, citing her 2006 collection Averno, which the committee described as "masterly" for its "visionary interpretation of the myth of Persephone's fall into hell in the captivity（囚禁） of Hades, the god of death".
Gluck is a professor at Yale and a resident of Cambridge,and she 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 miraculous return of life after winter"，the Nobel Literature Committee said on Thursday. She also won the 2014 National Book Award for poetry for Faithful and Virtuous Night. In 2016， President Obama awarded the National Humanities Medal to Gluck in a White House ceremony.
Being publicly shy,Gluck did not immediately give 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 mean the immortality（不朽） of a true artist.



What makes Gluck's works popular according to the prize committee in Paragraph 1？ ______

A. Magical realism.
B. The clue of the novel.
C. Simple beauty.
D. Fictional structure.

Which of the following is the main theme Gluck uses in her works？ ______

A. Thought about classic myths.
B. Life of childhood and family.
C. Experience of personal life.
D. Reflection on modern works.

What do the collections of poems Averno and The Wild Iris have in common？ ______

A. They won the same book awards.
B. They have become best-sellers.
C. They gave rise to Gluck's fame.
D. They talk about life and death.

What does Gluck imply in the last paragraph？ ______

A. Being famous is important to a struggling writer.
B. Being rewarded is not that vital to a true artist.
C. Being popular is not necessary for the writing.
D. Being shy is not a weakness for a famous writer.