【題目】 Michelle Obama’s autobiography, Becoming is on track to become the most successful memoir (回憶錄) in modern publishing history, selling more than 10m copies to date, as life after the White House continues to prove commercial gold for brand Obama.

Thomas Rabe, chief executive of the German media group Bertelsmann, said the title was the book giant’s biggest success of the last year. “We believe that these memoirs could well become the most successful memoir ever,” he said.

Penguin Random House won a bidding war for the rights to Barack and Michelle Obama’s autobiographies in 2017, paying more than $ 65 million, a record for US presidential memoirs.

Becoming has been a global sales juggernaut since being launched in 31 languages in mid-November. The audio-book (有聲讀物), read by the former first lady, has become the fastest-ever seller put out by Penguin Random House.

Obama has been promoting her memoir with a hugely popular global tour. Her tour has also taken in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Paris and Amsterdam as well as the US and Canada.

Tickets for her first live appearance in the UK, at the Royal Festival Hall in December, sold out in minutes. Overall UK sales of Obama’s book currently stand at more than 600,000, ranking it 11th on the list of the best selling memoir and biographies since sales records began in 1998, according to Nielsen BookScan.

While Becoming is proving a modern bestseller, it has some way to go to match the lifetime performance of The Diary of Anne Frank, which was first published in English in 1952 and is estimated to have sold more than 35m copies in 65 languages.

Life beyond the US presidency has proved profitable for the Obamas. Last year the former president and first lady struck a deal with Netflix to produce TV series and films for the streaming service.

【1】What can we infer from Paragraph One to Paragraph Three?

A.Becoming is the most successful memoir in the publishing history.

B.Becoming is the most popular book released by Penguin Random House.

C.Michelle Obama’s autobiography gains its best sales in the UK.

D.Penguin Random House won the right for publication with its highest price for US presidential memories.

【2】The underlined word “juggernaut” in Paragraph Three can be replaced by ______.

A.giantB.controller

C.leaderD.operator

【3】What does the text mainly talk about?

A.President Obamas' autobiographies.B.The influence of Michelle Obama.

C.Barack and Michelle Obama.D.A modern bestselling memoir.

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】D

【解析】

這是一篇說(shuō)明文。文章主要介紹了現(xiàn)代出版史上最暢銷的回憶錄——Becoming，由米歇爾·奧巴馬所寫(xiě)。這本書(shū)的暢銷證明了奧巴馬白宮之后的生活仍然具有商業(yè)價(jià)值。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段的Penguin Random House won a bidding war for the rights to Barack and Michelle Obama’s autobiographies in 2017, paying more than $ 65 million, a record for US presidential memoirs.(2017年，Penguin Random House以超過(guò)6500萬(wàn)美元的價(jià)格贏得了巴拉克·奧巴馬和米歇爾·奧巴馬自傳的版權(quán)，創(chuàng)下了美國(guó)總統(tǒng)回憶錄的拍賣記錄)可推測(cè)，Penguin Random House以最高的價(jià)格贏得的美國(guó)總統(tǒng)巴拉克·奧巴馬和米歇爾·奧巴馬回憶錄的出版權(quán)。D. Penguin Random House won the right for publication with its highest price for US presidential memories.(Penguin Random House以最高的價(jià)格贏得的美國(guó)總統(tǒng)回憶錄的出版權(quán))符合以上說(shuō)法，故選D項(xiàng)。

【2】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)第三段的Becoming has been a global sales juggernaut since being launched in 31 languages in mid-November. The audio-book (有聲讀物), read by the former first lady, has become the fastest-ever seller put out by Penguin Random House.可知，自從11月中旬以31種語(yǔ)言發(fā)布以來(lái)，Becoming一直是全球銷售的juggernaut。由前第一夫人朗讀的原版有聲書(shū)已成為Penguin Random House有史以來(lái)賣得最快的書(shū)。結(jié)合句意，尤其是become the fastest-ever seller可猜測(cè)劃線部分的意思是“巨人”。A. giant(巨人)符合以上說(shuō)法，故選A項(xiàng)。

【3】主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章的主要內(nèi)容，尤其第一段Michelle Obama’s autobiography, Becoming is on track to become the most successful memoir (回憶錄) in modern publishing history, selling more than 10m copies to date, as life after the White House continues to prove commercial gold for brand Obama.(米歇爾·奧巴馬的自傳有望成為現(xiàn)代出版史上最成功的回憶錄，銷售超過(guò)1000萬(wàn)冊(cè)，作為白宮后的生活繼續(xù)被證明商業(yè)黃金品牌——奧巴馬)可知，本文主要給讀者介紹了現(xiàn)代出版史上最暢銷的回憶錄——Becoming。D. A modern bestselling memoir.(當(dāng)代暢銷的回憶錄)符合以上說(shuō)法，故選D項(xiàng)。

【易錯(cuò)分析】

第1小題What can we infer from Paragraph One to Paragraph Three?

A. Becoming is the most successful memoir in the publishing history.

B. Becoming is the most popular book released by Penguin Random House.

C. Michelle Obama’s autobiography gains its best sales in the UK.

D. Penguin Random House won the right for publication with its highest price for US presidential memories.

容易錯(cuò)選為A項(xiàng)，即認(rèn)為“Becoming是出版史上最成功的回憶錄”，該說(shuō)法雖然是正確的，但根據(jù)題干中的infer from可知，本題的答案應(yīng)該是我們根據(jù)前三段的內(nèi)容推斷出來(lái)的，而非文章直接陳述的，所以A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。根據(jù)第二段的Penguin Random House won a bidding war for the rights to Barack and Michelle Obama’s autobiographies in 2017, paying more than $ 65 million, a record for US presidential memoirs.(2017年，Penguin Random House以超過(guò)6500萬(wàn)美元的價(jià)格贏得了巴拉克·奧巴馬和米歇爾·奧巴馬自傳的版權(quán)，創(chuàng)下了美國(guó)總統(tǒng)回憶錄的拍賣記錄)可推測(cè)，Penguin Random House以最高的價(jià)格贏得的美國(guó)總統(tǒng)巴拉克·奧巴馬和米歇爾·奧巴馬回憶錄的出版權(quán)。故選D. Penguin Random House won the right for publication with its highest price for US presidential memories.

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