72. Which of the following statements about the passages above is false?
(A) Ice sculpting has been one of the athletic events in the Winter Olympicssince 1988.
(B) Ice sculptures are now widely used as additions to adorn joyful and festiveoccasions.
(C) Ice sculpting has a close bond with fruit and vegetable carving.
(D) Knowledge about ice sculpting is taught in modern culinary schools.(II) The great Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize forLiterature in 2006.Orhan Pamuk was born on June 7, 1952, in Istanbul into a prosperous, secularmiddle-class family. Though he initially studied to be an architect, he soon found his truecalling as a writer. He is now one of Turkey's most prominent novelists. His work hassold over eleven million books in sixty languages, making him the country's best-sellingwriter.7In his home country, Pamuk has a reputation as a social commentator even though hesees himself as principally a fiction writer with no political agenda. He was the firstauthor in the Muslim world to publicly condemn the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Hetook a stand for his Turkish colleague Yaşar Kemal when Kemal was put on trial in 1995.Pamuk himself was charged after having mentioned, in a Swiss newspaper, that 30,000Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in Turkey. The charge aroused widespreadinternational protest. Afterwards, it has been dropped.When Pamuk was announced as the winner of the 2006 award, the Swedish Academypraised him for his exploration of relations between the East and the West. The Academysaid of Pamuk: "In the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, he has discoverednew symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures." However, when asked about hiswriting, Pamuk has simply said, "This glorious imperial city [Istanbul] went into ruins. Ispent my childhood in those ruins, and I wrote about how beautiful it is."