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回答题Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage :
Washington Irving was America' s first man of letters to be known internationally. His workswere received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one ofthe most successful writers of his time in the country, and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the United States. (76) The respect in which he was held partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his gay spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New.
Thackeray described Irving as "a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere,was most finished, polished, witty ; socially the equal of the most refined Europeans. " ( 77 ) InEngland he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford--an unusual honor for a citizen of ayoung, uncultured nation--and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature. America made him ambassador to Spain.
Irving' s background provides little to explain his literary achievements. A gifted but delicatechild, he had little schooling. He studied law, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously.
He was immune to his strict Presbyterian home environment, frequenting both social gatherings andthe theater.
The main point of the first paragraph is that Washington Irving was A．America' s first man of letters
B．a writer who had great success both in and outside his own country
C．a man who was able to move from literature to politics
D．a man whose personal charm enabled him to get by with basically inferior work
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