Brooks, Bruce. Everywhere. HarperCollins, 1990, ISBN0060207299. 70 pages.

    Peanuts’ beloved grandfather has suffered a heart attack. Peanuts is sad over the possibility of losing his grandfather. Dooley keeps Peanuts company while the adults in the family attend to Grandfather. Dooley attempts to save the old man by a ritual learned from comic books: killing a turtle and trading his soul for Grandfather’s. With the imaginative assistance of Dooley, Peanuts discovers the healing power of hope and love.

　　Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. Farrar,1975.ISBN0374378487.180 pages.

　　The Tuck family has discovered a spring whose water brings eternal life. A man learns their secret and threatens to sell the water to the highest bidder. Mrs Tuck kills the man and is jailed and sentenced to be executed. Though the family knows she cannot be killed, they worry that their secret will be revealed when they try to kill her.

Baylor, Byrd. The Table Where Rich People Sit. Simon & Schuster,1994.ISBN0684196530.52 pages.

Around an old kitchen table, a young girl calls a family meeting to show her parents that they should earn more money so they can have nicer things. As she points out they are not sitting at a table where rich people would sit, her parents calculate the value of the desert hills, the blooming cactus, the calls of eagles, and one another’s company. Soon, she realizes that her poor family is rich in things that matter in life. She concludes that this is indeed a table where rich people sit.

Goble, Paul. Beyond the Ridge.Bradbury,1989.ISBN0027365816.32 pages.

There is no death；only a change of worlds—the author delivers these reassurances to readers in this book, based on the customs of the Plains Indians in America. The book reads like a prayer, expressing specific beliefs about dying. It describes a woman who is called by her long-dead mother to go “beyond the ridge”. After a steep climb, she discovers a world that is abundantly beautiful, and there she finds the familiar faces of people who have passed that way before her.

1．Which book is the thickest?

      A．Everywhere.                                       B．Tuck Everlasting.

       C．The Table Where Rich People Sit.          D．Beyond the Ridge.

2．Which book is published in 1990?

       A．Everywhere.

       B．Tuck Everlasting.

       C．The Table Where Rich People Sit.

       D．Beyond the Ridge.

3．Who wrote the book about Native Americans’ view of death?

       A．Bruce Brooks.     B．Natalie Babbitt.    C．Byrd Baylor.        D．Paul Goble.

4．Who wrote the book which shows that money is not the only way to measure wealth?

       A．Bruce Brooks.        B．Natalie Babbitt.        C．Byrd Baylor.    D．Paul Goble.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Guide to Restaurants in New York City 2003

　　Nearly 1,000 restaurants are included in this latest edition of the most trusted guide to eating well in New York. Brief reviews by the city's most respected food writers are made more readable by what cannot be found in any other restaurant guide, including: suggested dishes and complete price ranges (范围) for a proper judgment of your final bill. Hardcover. $14.95

　　How Electronic Things Work

　　A guided tour of everyday technology from the pages of the weekly Times section, with easy-to-understand explanations of the inner workings of computers, CD players, ATM's, digital and 76 other devices. 100 illustrations (插图). St. Martin's Press. 195pages. Hardcover.

　　The New York Times Book of Natural Disasters

　　The book gathers together the paper's finest articles about humankind's quest (调查) to understand natural disasters. Possible causes and effects of global warming are studied, as is the surprising force of nature's violent excitement in such phenomena (现象) as hurricanes, forest fires, sinkholes and others. Illustrated, softcover, 216 pages. $16.95

　　Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races(竞选)

　　Every campaign since 1900 - including the historic 2000 race - in images from The New York Times Photo Archives. With 350 photos, contemporary newspaper reports and an introduction by prize - winning historian Alan Brinkley. DK Publishing. 410 pages. Hardcover.

1．A student of history is most likely to take ________ listed above.

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2．The underlined word “others” (paragraph 3) may include ________.

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3．It can be learned from one of the books that you can ________.

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A．repair your digital camera for yourself

B．work out the expenses before going to a restaurant

C．get latest information about natural disasters

D．learn a lot about historian Alan Brinkley