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With her magical first novel, Garcia joins a growing chorus of talented Latino writers whosevoices are suddenly reaching a far wider, more diverse audience. Unlike Latin American writerssuch as Colombia′s Gabriel Garcia Marquee of Peru′s Mario Vargas Llosa--whose translatedworks became popular here in the 1970s--these authors are writing in English and drawing theirthemes from two cultures. Their stories, from "Dreaming in Cuban" to Julia Alvarez′s "How theGarcia Girls Lost Their Accent" and Victor Villasenor′s "Rain of Gold", offer insight into themixture of economic opportunity and discrimination that Latinos encounter in the United States.

"Garcia Girls" for example, is the story of four sisters weathering their transition from wealthyDominicans to ragtag immigrants, "We didn′ t feel we had the beat the United States had to offer,"one of the girls says, "We had only second-hand stuff, rental houses in one redneck Catholicneighborhood after another, clothes at Round Robin, a black and white TV afflicted with wavylines." Alvarez, a Middlebury College professor Who emigrated from Santo Domingo when she was10, says being an immigrant has given her a special vantage point: "We travel on that borderbetween two worlds and we can see both points of view."

With few exceptions, such as Chicano writer Rudolfo Anaya, many Hispanic-Americans havebeen writing in virtual obscurity for years, nurtured only by small presses like Houston′s ArtePublico or the Bilingual Press in Tempe, Ariz. Only with the recent success of Sandra Cisneros′s "Woman Hollering Creek" and Oscar Hijuelos′s prize-winning novel, "The Mambo Kings PlaySongs of Love," have mainstream publishers begun opening door to other Latinos. Julie Grau,Cisneros′s editor at Turtle Bay, says, "Editors may now be looking more carefully at a book thatbefore they would have deemed too exotic for the general readership."

But if Villasenor′s experience is any indication, some editors are st

A.Some editors of mainstream publishers are critical
B.Many Latino writers were mostly favored by small presses
C."Rain of Gold" was going to be one of the first Chicano books
D."Rain of Gold" was intended to be published as a novel by the author

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答案： A

本题解析：

推断题。定位到第三段。第一句提到“ButifVillasenor’s experienceisanyindication，someeditors are still wary．”．wary的意思是“机警的．谨慎的”，与A项中critical的意思是对应的。接下来是具体说明”Byt tge edutirs… wanted major changes:‘Theywere going to destroy the book．It’s nonfiction；they wanted topublish it as anovel．And they wanted to change the title to‘Rio Grande，’…”，由此可以推断出A项。B、C项文中没有提到相关内容。结合最后一句“After ayear of strained relations，he…bought back the rights to the book that hadtaken 10 years to write．”可知作者最终买回了这本书的版权．也就是说作者并不同意出版商把它改编成小说出版的做法．D项说法不正确。