Question

                         Mini  Book  Excerpts（節選）

 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 one who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it ? ”The boy was starting stubbornly at his lap again.

     A thought suddenly occurred to Annika, “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 of that within a day’s drive of most cities?

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

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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. Annika carried out the crime

Answer 1

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