Mini  Book  Excerpts（节选）

 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（疑案小说）

     “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

                         Mini  Book  Excerpts（节选）

 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（疑案小说）

     “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

Reading is a task that we all do either for enjoyment or education, but sometimes the book we have to read may lack the attraction. Here are some tips on avoiding getting bored while reading.

Try to step into the world of literature(文学) you are reading. __56___ If the wind is blowing, imagine how the leaves move with each movement of air.

Make your reading area unlike your sleeping area. If you sleep with the radio on, then shut it off. __57__ Make the area you read in an area that feels almost uncomfortable to sleep in. This will keep you from becoming sleepy.

__58__ If you are reading for a book report , then take breaks from time to time to put what you are reading into some kind of context（语境） that you can put into the report.

Take a break once in a while. __59___ You’d better offer yourself short breaks while reading in case you are too tired, which may make you give up.

Find a friend. ___60__ Try to read the same book. Even if you read different books, you can tell him or her how good the book is. Also, a friend can encourage you to read.

E. Don’t just read the words on the page; picture them in your mind.

F. Determine what you are supposed to get from the reading material.

G. If you don’t like lights on when you are asleep, then turn on the lights.

Reading is a task that we all do either for enjoyment or education, but sometimes the book we have to read may lack the attraction. Here are some tips on avoiding getting bored while reading.
Try to step into the world of literature(文学) you are reading. __56___ If the wind is blowing, imagine how the leaves move with each movement of air.
Make your reading area unlike your sleeping area. If you sleep with the radio on, then shut it off. __57__ Make the area you read in an area that feels almost uncomfortable to sleep in. This will keep you from becoming sleepy.
__58__ If you are reading for a book report , then take breaks from time to time to put what you are reading into some kind of context（语境） that you can put into the report.
Take a break once in a while. __59___ You’d better offer yourself short breaks while reading in case you are too tired, which may make you give up.
Find a friend. ___60__ Try to read the same book. Even if you read different books, you can tell him or her how good the book is. Also, a friend can encourage you to read.

第三部分  阅读理解

(共15小题，每题2分，满分30分)

Cheating can happen in a lot of different ways. When people cheat, it’s not fair to other people, like the kids who studied for the test or who were the true winners of a game.

Many people like the action of cheating. It makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the test. But it doesn’t solve the problem of not knowing the material and it won’t help on the next test --- unless the person cheats again.

Some people lose respect for cheaters and think less of them. The cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not really earning that good grade. And, if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, too.

Some kids cheat because they’re busy or lazy and they want to get good grades without spending the time studying. Other kids might feel like they can’t pass the test without cheating. Even when there seems to be a “good reason” for cheating, cheating isn’t a good idea.

If you were sick or upset about something the night before and couldn’t study, it would be better to talk with the teacher about this. And if you don’t have enough time to study for a test because of swim practice, you need to talk with your parents about how to balance swimming and school.

A kid who thinks cheating is the only way to pass a test needs to talk with the teacher and his or her parents so they can find some solutions(解决办法) together. Talking about these problems and working them out will feel better than cheating.

56．The author thinks that when kids cheat in class, _______.

       A．it is unfair to other people    B．it does harm to their heath

       C．teachers should punish them  D．teachers shouldn’t stop them at once

57．Some students like cheating mainly because_________.

       A．the material in the test is very difficult

       B．they want to do better than the others

       C．cheating can make hard things seem very easy

       D．they have little time to study their lessons

58．The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.

       A．cheating isn’t a good idea   B．why kids cheat in the test

       C．some kids can’t pass the test without cheating

       D．some kids don’t spend the time studying

 59．We can learn from the passage______.

       A．cheaters are often thought highly of

       B．people show no respect for those who cheat

       C．parents whose kids cheat are often in trouble

D．kids cheat in the test because of swim practice

60．In the passage those cheaters are advised to_______.

       A．spend more time on school than on sports

       B．find good solutions instead of cheating

       C．try hard to be intelligent rather than lazy

       D．ask their classmates for good methods of study