7、Doris Lessing, a novelist whose books have swept across continents and reflects her concern about the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award comes with about $1.6 million.

    Ms Lessing never finished high school and largely educated herself through reading. She has written dozens of books of fiction, as well as plays, nonfiction and two volumes of autobiography. She is the 11^th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Ms. Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in what is now Iran. Her father was a bank clerk, and her mother was trained as a nurse. Attracted by the promise of farming riches, the family moved to Zimbabwe, where Ms. Lessing had what she has called a painful childhood.

She left home when she was 15, and in 1937 she moved to Salisbury in southern Rhodelsia, where she took jobs as a telephone operator and nursemaid. She married at 19 and had two children. A few years later, feeling as if she were put in prison, she abandoned her family. She later married Gottfried Lessing, and they had a son.

    When Mr. Lessing and her marriage broke up, she and her young son, Peter, moved to London, where she began her writing career. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing was published in Britain in 1949. Ms Lessing’s strongest influence may be that she inspired a generation of feminists（女權主義者）with her breakthrough novel, The Golden Notebook. The book was published in 1962, which wrote about  the story of Anna Wulf, a woman who wanted to live freely and was, in some ways, Ms. Lessing’s secondary personality. She wrote about the inner lives of women and rejected the opinion that they should abandon their lives to marriage and children.

1. Ms. Lessing’s family moved from Iran to Zimbabwe because__________.

A．farming could make them become well off

B．her laid-off parents could find jobs

C．she could receive a better education

D．she could have a chance to take up writing

2. It can be learned from the passage that ________.

A．Doris Lessing is Ms. Lessing’s pen name.

B．Doris May Tayler is the name of Ms.Lessing’s birth place

C．Anna Wulf is Ms. Lessing’s name used before

D．Doris May Tayler is Ms. Lessing’s once used name

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．Ms. Lessing is the 11^th person to win the Nobel Prize Literature.

B．Ms. Lessing got down to writing after graduation from high school.

C．Ms. Lessing married three times and has three children

D．Ms. Lessing disapproves of women abandoning their life to their marriage.

4. We can know from the text that _________.

A．Ms. Lessing’s writing career took off in her twenties

B．The Golden Notebook was about Ms. Lessing’s broken marriage life

C．Ms. Lessing’s books are involved in social and political issues of her time

D．The failure of Ms. Lessing’s marriage was due to her devotion to career.