In a career that lasted more than half a century，Tom Wolfe wrote fiction and nonfiction best-sellers including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities.Along the way，he created a new type of journalism and coined phrases that became part of the American vocabulary.
   Wolfe began working as a newspaper reporter，first for The Washington Post，then the New York Herald Tribune.He developed a literary style in nonfiction that became known as the "New Journalism". "I've always agreed on a theoretical level that the techniques for fiction and nonfiction are interchangeable，" he said. "The things that work in nonfiction would work in fiction，and vice versa."
   "When Tom Wolfe's voice broke into the world of nonfiction，it was a time when a lot of writers，and a lot of artists in general，were turning inwards，" says Lev Grossman，book critic for Time magazine. "Wolfe didn't do that.Wolfe turned outwards.He was a guy who was interested in other people." Wolfe was interested in how they thought，how they did things and how the things they did affected the world around them.
   In 1979，Wolfe published The Right Stuff，an account of the military test pilots who became America's first astronauts.Four years later，the book was adapted as a feature film. "The Right Stuff was the book for me"，says Crossman. "It reminded me，in case I'd forgotten，that the world is an incredible place."
   In The Right Stuff，Wolfe popularized the phrase "pushing the envelope." In a New York magazine article，Wolfe described the 1970s as "The 'Me' Decade." Grossman says these phrases became part of the American idiom because they were accurate.
   "He was an enormously forceful observer，and he was not afraid of making strong claims about what was happening in reality，" Grossman says. "He did it well and people heard him.And they repeated what he said because he was right." All those words started a revolution in nonfiction that is still going on.

（1）The "New Journalism" is a style of journalism that

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A．changes its news writing techniques frequently
B．popularizes new American idioms in a literary way
C．combines novelistic techniques with traditional reporting
D．reports various news events from a theoretical perspective
（2）It can be learned from the passage that The Right Stuff

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A．is a film directed by Lev Grossman
B．is an influential book by Tom Wolfe
C．a(chǎn)ccounts for popular American phrases
D．deals with incredible places in the world
（3）According to the passage，Tom Wolfe

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A．was good at writing from a realistic perspective
B．preferred making claims about events to writing books
C．was fond of commenting on other people's thoughts
D．liked analyzing social problems from the outside
（4）Which of the following is the best title for the passage？

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A．A Professional Phrase Coiner
B．A Forceful Observer and Novelist
C．A Theoretical Creator in Literature
D．An Innovative Journalist and Writer