Best Sellers(畅销书) of the Week

The New York Times

1.The information about the Best Sellers of the Week is provided by __________.

A. China Daily                                                  B. 21st Century                            

C. The New York Times                                            D. Washington Post

2.The book which has stayed on the list for the longest time is __________. 

A. The Forgotten Garden                              B. The Help

C. Spoken From the Heart                             D. Best Friends Forever

3.Nancy wants to buy the top three books on the list this week. She has to pay __________.

A. $68.80                    B. $70.75                              C. $77.80                              D. $80.80

4.David likes to read detective stories, so he can try __________.

A. The Forgotten Garden                                        B. The Help

C. Best Friends Forever                                          D. Run For Your Life

5.Sarah is interested in the family life of American President. She can choose the book written by __________.

A. Kate Morton     B. Helen Scott            C. Laura Bush                  D. Carol Brown

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Reading is an activity that people enjoy a lot in their free time.

Some like reading newspapers and o___1.__ enjoy novels or comic(喜剧的)books. My f__2.___ books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my o___3.___ life better.

Great people are remembered not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up w___4.___ their lives were difficult. They tried to use e___5.___ chance to change their lives and make the world better.

One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers who invented the airplane. The plane has m___6.____ the world a small village. Hard work, not good luck, is the r___7.___ why the Wright Brothers could invent this convenient(方便的)machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes f___8.____ in the sky.

Whenever I read s___9.___ about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me to march on.

This is w___10.___ I enjoy reading about great people’s lives.

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A young man went to a mountain village for his holiday. That night he s  1  at a small hotel near a train station. B  2  going to bed, he went to the owner of the hotel and said, “Excuse me, sir. Will you please w  3  me up at a quarter to five? I’ll take the five o’clock t 4  tomorrow morning.” “Oh, sorry,” the owner said in a h  5 , “I am a 6  I can’t. I can’t get up so e  7 .” The young man just wanted to go back to his room when he stopped and asked, “Do you have an alarm clock(闹钟)? M  8  it can help me.” “Yes, here it is, young man.” The young man got the clock happily and thanked the old man. But when he looked at the clock carefully, it seemed there was something w  9  with it. “Can it ring o  10  time?” he asked the old man. “Sure! You just give a good shake(摇晃) when time is up. And it will ring.”

“Sorry” is a word that people in Britain often say in their daily life.

One day while I was w　 1　 on the street, a young man ran by hurriedly, brushing（轻擦）against my handbag. He continued his way, but turned b 2　 and said “sorry” to me. Even in a rush, he didn’t f 3　 to say “sorry”. One day, after I bought some bananas, the shopkeeper was passing me the change, but I wasn’t ready for it and a coin dropped onto the ground. “Sorry, Madam,” he said w 4　 bending to pick it up. I was s 5　 why he said “sorry” to me. Another time, I stepped on a man’s f　 6 at the entrance to a cinema. At the same time, we b 7　 said “sorry”.

Slowly, I got to know that when something unpleasant happens in daily life, the British don’t

c　 8　　 much about who is wrong. If someone is in trouble, a “sorry” is always n 9　 .　 Perhaps that is w　 10　 I seldom see people quarrel on the buses or streets in Britain.