Little Brother

By Cory Doctorow, 382 pages, $19.95

In the very near future, Marcus Yallow is walking with his friends in San Francisco when a 9/11-sized terrorist attack occurs blocks away. Everyone around is secretly taken away by the Department of Homeland Security to see whether they're terrorists. However, during the investigation, one of his friends dies mysteriously. The friends try to find out the truth. If you read only one science-fiction novel this year, make it this one.

The Flying Troutmans

      By Miriam Toews, 274 pages, $32

     The heart of the book is a road journey in Canada made by Hattie, Thebes and Logan to find Cherkis, the kids' dad. It's rich in dialogue, sometimes funny, sometimes surprisingly sad, always character-true. Toews is an extraordinarily gifted writer, with tough-minded compassion（同情） for her characters.

Reading By Lightning

      By Joan Thomas, 388 pages, $22.95

      We're in 1930s Canada, where Lily's father arrived three decades earlier to be promised fertile agricultural land. But they had been cheated and thrown in the middle of Manitoba. Now William Piper and his wife farm their land and place little hope in this life.

What They Wanted

By Donna Morrissey, 325 pages,$32

A father has a heart attack; a brother and a sister leave Newfoundland and go to Alberta, Canada to work; a tragedy brings reconciliation（和解）, but also terrible loss. Primarily a novel of character, it’s also a novel of Canada, of two very specific and vividly drawn places. Donna Morrissey's characters are troubled, sensitive, quick to be moved to anger or pain, and just as quick to laughter and affection.

63.If Jim only has 20 dollars, which book could he buy?

   A. The Flying Troutmans         B. What They Wanted

   C. Little Brother                D. Reading By Lightning

64.According to the text, we know that The Flying Troutmans is_____.

   A. Full of dialogue     B. A sad story     C. About tourism      D. A real story

65.In Reading By Lightning, why did William Piper arrive in Canada?

   A. To carry out his promise.         B. To work in a big city.

   C. To get work experience.         D. To seek his fortune.

66.If you want to know about two different places of Canada, whose novel is the best choice?

   A. Cory Doctorow's         B. Miriam Toews's

   C. Joan Thomas's           D. Donna Morrissey's

 

【答案】

 

 C

 A

 D

 D

【解析】             

 

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"Mama! Mama!" My 2-year-old son yells at his most excited, I-just-discovered-something -huge voice when we are eating a delicious hot curry with steamed rice at our dinner table．

"Look, a tree!" He yells again．I turn to find him holding up a piece of broccoli （西蘭花） for us to see．"Oh honey," I laugh and begin to protest, "That is bro．．．" But I stop．

As my son grows up, I find myself struggling not lo turn into the worst kind of teacher -the kind who overcorrects．

I have to learn to fight against my strong adult need to jump in and say, "No．that is not right．" in the name of promoting knowledge．Unless I think his incorrect concept puts him in the way of harm, I have no desire to fix it．

Instead, I want to encourage my son's colorful sense of the world, in which stuffed （毛絨的） animals attend story times, flies are fascinating creatures, and red balloons share secrets．

       At our dinner table, I study the face of my child who is eagerly waiting for confirmation．He is smiling．His cheeks are a little flushed with excitement．

       Instead of taking the opportunity to teach him a new vegetable name．I say, "Wow, look!" pointing at his plate, "You have many trees in your rice!"

He laughs happily, his lovely face redder．

"So, how many trees can you eat?" I ask him, breaking in with another strong parenting desire I have: forming healthy eating habits．

He playfully puts one after another into his mouth, delighled by the possibility of pulling out the little trees that grow in his rice and eating them right off his plate．

56．Why does the writer decide to ignore her son's false idea of things?

       A．She doesn't think it will harm her son．

       B．She doesn't want to promote knowledge．

       C．She wants to be a good teacher．

       D．She wants her son to be happy．

57．The underlined word "flushed' in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by ____．

       A．pale             B．red            C．green             D．white

58．In the writer's opinion- parents should_____．

       A．a(chǎn)llow their children to sense the world and make mistakes

       B．do nothing to fix the mistakes made by their children

       C．teach their children what they know about the world

       D．correct all of the mistakes made by their children

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