This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 99 стр.

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A book by Richard Russo called “Empire Falls” won the Pulitzer Prize for

fiction. It is about a single father who operates an eating place in a town in Maine that

used to have several factories. The town represents the hopes of its citizens.

Diane McWhorter won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Her book tells

about the civil rights movement in one city in the American South. It is called “Carry

Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights

Revolution.”

Henry Brant won the Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition, “Ice Field.”

Mr. Brant is a creator of 20th century spatial music. In spatial music, performers are

placed in different areas in the theater. The work was performed for the first time by

the San Francisco Symphony in December, 2001.

3 COMPREHENSION CHECK

Decide whether these statements are TRUE or FALSE

1. Pulitzer Prizes are awards given for the best newspaper reporting in the US and

the UK.

2. Mr. Pulitzer was a very successful reporter who managed to become very rich.

3. He left all his money to Columbia University to be used as prizes.

4. Columbia University in New York City has awarded Pulitzer Prizes every year

since 1970.

5. All the Pulitzer Prizes awarded to newspapers in 2002 were for stories about

the terrorist attacks and events that followed.

6. Not only newspaper stories but pictures can be awarded with the Pulitzer Prize.

7. Spatial music is a kind of music played in space.

4 VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

1) Match the beginning of the phrases with their endings to make expressions from

the text

1. receive a. people for their work

2. war b. to newspapers and reporters

3. awards c. on issues

4. terrorist threat d. on the world

5. honour e. on terrorism