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Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia, moving as a child with her family

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问题     Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia, moving as a child with her family to southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where she stayed in school only to the age of 14.
    A year after moving to London, she published her first novel in 1950. The Grass Is Singing examines unbridgeable racial conflict in colonial Africa through the eyes of a white farmer’ s wife and her black servant.
    Her literary breakthrough came in 1962 with publication of The Golden Notebook, seen by many, though not necessarily Lessing, as a pioneering work of modern feminism(女权运动). A separated study of the mind of the main character, Anna Wulf, the novel explores her thoughts about Africa, politics and relationships with men and sex.
    Lessing’s themes changed to psychology in her works from the 1960s, and by the 1970s she was extremely interested in the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism(苏菲教派). Her turn toward science fiction with the Canopus series in the early 1980s was not warmly received by traditionalist critics, but she has continued to win new readers and numerous literary awards, including the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the Companion of Honour from the Royal Society of Literature, both in 2001.
    Following the announcement, the Horace Engdahl told VOA why he was personally so pleased with Lessing’ s selection.
    "She is one of the truly great writers—of novels, short stories, fiction and non-fiction," Engdahl said. "She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold the principle of equality between the male and female experience, and she has given the impulse(冲动)to numbers of other women writers. And she is really the mother of a school that is one of the most important in our contemporary literature."
    At 87, Doris Lessing is the oldest Nobel Literature winner since the first prizes were awarded in 1901. [br] According to the Horace Engdahl, Lessing wins Nobel Prize mainly because_____.
选项 A、she has rich experience in living in Africa
B、she is a head master of an important school
C、she encourages women writers to struggle against men
D、she makes great contributions to equal rights for women
答案 D
解析 细节题。文章倒数第二段指出“She is one of the truly great writers…Engdahl said． “She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold theprinciple of equality between the male and female experience…，由此可知，DorisLessing获得诺贝尔奖的原因是因为她为争取妇女平等权利做出了贡献。故选D。
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