Question

【題目】 By the end of the year, editors of New York Times have picked the 4 best books of 2019, including fiction and non-fiction. Let’s see which one will take your fancy.

Disappearing Earth

By Julia Phillips

In the first chapter of this novel, two young girls vanish, sending shock waves through a town on the edge of the remote and mysterious Kamchatka Peninsula. What follows is a novel of overlapping short stories about the different women who have been affected by their disappearance. Each tale pushes the narrative forward another month and exposes the ways in which the women of Kamchatka have been destroyed — personally, culturally and emotionally — by the crime.

No Visible Bruises

By Rachel Louise Snyder

Snyder’s thoroughly reported book covers what the World Health Organization has called “a global health problem”. In America alone, more than half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former life partner; domestic violence cuts across lines of class, religion and race. Snyder reveals pervasive myths (restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change) and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. She doesn’t give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope.

Midnight in Chernobyl

By Adam Higginbotham

Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller. Filled with vivid detail and sharply etched personalities, this narrative of astonishing incompetence moves from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation, as it builds to the inevitable, history-changing disaster.

Exhalation

By Ted Chiang

Many of the nine deeply beautiful stories in this collection explore the material consequences of time travel. Reading them feels like sitting at dinner with a friend who explains scientific theory to you with no airs and graces. Each thoughtful, elegantly crafted story poses a philosophical question; Chiang arranges all nine into a conversation that comes full circle, after having travelled through remarkable areas.

【1】Which of the following tells about the violence from a husband to a wife in a family?

A.Disappearing EarthB.No Visible Bruises

C.Midnight in ChernobylD.Exhalation

【2】How may readers feel when reading the book Midnight in Chernobyl?

A.Delighted.B.Awkward.

C.Tense.D.Calm.

【3】What kind of book is Exhalation?

A.A folk tale.B.A biography.

C.A love story.D.A sci-fi story.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【解析】

這是一篇應(yīng)用文。短文介紹了紐約時(shí)報(bào)推薦的2019年度最佳書(shū)籍。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段中In America alone, more than half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former life partner可知，僅在美國(guó)一半以上被謀殺的婦女是被現(xiàn)任或前任男友殺害。這是與家庭暴力有關(guān)的內(nèi)容，所以選擇第三段對(duì)應(yīng)的書(shū)籍。故選B。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段中第一句話Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller.（希金博塔姆對(duì)1986年4月切爾諾貝利核電站爆炸的高超描述是那些罕見(jiàn)的關(guān)于科學(xué)和技術(shù)的書(shū)籍之一，讀起來(lái)就像一部充滿張力的驚悚片。）可推斷，這本書(shū)讀起來(lái)像一部充滿緊張氣氛的驚悚片。A.delighted高興的；B.awkward尷尬的；C.tense緊張的；D.calm平靜的。故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第五段中的關(guān)鍵詞time travel和 scientific theory可知，時(shí)光旅游和科學(xué)理論是有關(guān)科幻方面的，因此這是一本科幻故事方面的書(shū)籍。故選D。