Mini  Book  Excerpts(節(jié)選)

 Biography

    When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it… The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.

                  J. D.  Salinger:A  Life by Kenneth Slawenski(Random House,$27)Mystery(疑案小說)

        “You’re a smart boy. Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it ? ”The boy was staring stubbornly at his lap again.

     A thought suddenly occurred to Ammika,“ Did you …You recognized the man in the car,   didn’t you?”

     The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers,“ Maybe,” he said quietly.

                                  Red Wolf by Liza Marklund(Atria Books, $25. 99)

Short Stories

     She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class:Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give ,and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers love so their daughters won’t.

                              You Are Free by Danzy Senna (Riverhead Books,$15)

Humor

    Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times!’s “amusement cycling”is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive of most cities?

                         Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle(Ecco,$14. 99)

1.. If the readers want to know about the life of Salinger , they should buy the book published by                   .

A. Ecco     B. Atria Books   C. Riverhead Books       D. Random House

2..  The book Happy And Other Bad Thoughts is intended for                 .

A. young children                          B. Disney World workers   

C. middle school teachers                    D. parents with young children

3..  Which book describes women with characters of their own?

A.  Happy And Other Bad Thoughts

B.  J.  D. Salinger: A Life

C.  You Are Free

D.  Red Wolf

4.  After finishing the book Red Wolf, the readers would learn that               .

A. the boy helped arrest the murderer

B. Benny died of an accident

C. the murderer got away with the crime

D. Ammika carried out the crime

 

【答案】

 

1.D

2.D

3.C

4.A

【解析】

試題分析:

1..D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一部分的  J. D.  Salinger:A  Life by Kenneth Slawenski(Random House,$27)說明這本書是由Random House出版的。

2..D 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一部分2,3行Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times!’s “amusement cycling”is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now.說明這是為那些有孩子的父母準備的。故D正確。

3.C 推理題。根據(jù)文章第三部分Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give ,and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers love so their daughters won’t.說明本部分是關(guān)于不同性格的女性,故C正確。

4..A 推理題。根據(jù)文章第二部分最后兩行A thought suddenly occurred to Ammika,“ Did you …You recognized the man in the car,   didn’t you?”     The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers,“ Maybe,” he said quietly. 說明小男孩同意和他們?nèi)ケ嬲J兇手。故A正確。

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點評:本文是小說節(jié)選。節(jié)選了4本小說中的不同的部分,考查考生的細致的理解力。要求考生在審題時準確定位考查內(nèi)容,做題關(guān)鍵是找出原文的根據(jù),認真核查題支和原文的異同,常犯錯誤有:絕對化語言,范圍擴大或縮小,以偏概全,張冠李戴等。

 

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