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                       Mini  Book  Excerpts（节选）

 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（疑案小说）

        “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

 

He asked a lot of questions, none of ______ was easy to answer.

A．which

B．them

C．what

D．that

 

They put forward a lot of plans at the meeting, none of ______ carried out in their work.

A. which                                         B. them                                 C. what                                  D. that

 

Once a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete（不完整的）, it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with worms. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece.

Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to worms. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.

Sometimes we are perfect when we lost something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better. He will never know someone is loving him or someone is giving him something he has always wanted or never had.

We couldn’t be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us and then we can always live a wonderful time in our lives.

1.The circle rolled very slowly because it __________.

A．spent much time talking to worms

B．wanted to enjoy the sunshine

C．was looking for its missing piece

D．lost a piece of its own

2.After it was whole again and rolled fast, the circle __________.

A．felt unhappy

B．could see more beautiful flowers

C．could talk to any worm

D．could go everywhere

3.If a man owns everything, he’ll be __________ in some ways.

A．perfect

B．poor

C．happy

D．strong enough

4.The story mainly tells us that __________

A．nobody loves us if we give nothing

B．a man who has everything is the happiest

C．losing something may not be a bad thing sometimes

D．we are not whole when we lose something

 

Although all of the apples ________, none of them ________ good.

A．have been tasted; taste	B．have been tasted; are tasted
C．have tasted; taste	D．have tasted; are tasted