This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 96 стр.

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6. Why did Barry Siegel of the Los Angeles Times win the Pulitzer Prize?
7. What were prize-winning editorials of Los Angeles reporters about?
8. Why did the Wall Street Journal win the Pulitzer Prize?
9. What newspaper won the criticism prize?
10. What is the 2002 Pulitzer Prize play about?
11. Who won the poetry award? Why?
12. What biography book won the prize? Why?
13. What history book won the prize? Why?
14. What book won the prize for fiction? Why?
15. What book won the prize for nonfiction? Why?
16. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for music? Why?
PULITZER PRIZE
Every year, Pulitzer Prizes are given for the best newspaper reporting, books,
drama, poetry and music in the United States.
Columbia University in New York City has awarded Pulitzer Prizes every year
since 1917. The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer established the prize. Mr.
Pulitzer was born in Hungary in 1847. He moved to the United States and settled in
Saint Louis, Missouri. He became a newspaper reporter. Then he began buying
newspaper companies. In 1883, Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World. He
soon changed it into one of the most important newspapers in the United States. It
sold more copies than any other newspaper in the country.
Mr. Pulitzer became very rich. He left two million dollars to Columbia
University when he died in 1911. Part of the money was to establish a graduate
school of journalism to train reporters. The rest of the money was to be used as prizes
for the best writing in the United States. In 2002 Columbia University gave fourteen
awards to newspapers and reporters for excellence in journalism during 2001. The
judges also honored seven people for their work in the arts -- for books, a play, poetry
and music.
The most important news event of 2001 happened on September 11. On that
day, Islamic militants attacked the United States. They crashed hijacked airplanes
into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Defense Department
headquarters near Washington, D.C. Passengers on another hijacked plane apparently
crashed the plane to prevent more destruction. The attacks killed about three thousand
people.

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