When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews，and it won the Tony Award for Best Play，the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.

　　Miller died

　　of heart failure at his home in Roxbury，Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.

　　本文讲述了亚瑟·米勒，美国著名的剧作家，以及他的著名的戏剧《男售货员之死》，当这部戏剧第一次搬上舞台时，赢得了巨大的成功，获得了三项大奖。

　　1. Why did Arthur Miller' s father move to the USA?

　　A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.

　　B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”．

　　C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.

　　D. His family business failed.

　　答案：B。细节理解题。根据短文第一段第二句话“Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria­Hungary，drawn like so many others by the ‘Great American Dream’．”可知答案。

　　．The play Death of a Salesman ________.

　　A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world

　　B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company

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