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                       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 who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it ? ”The boy was staring stubbornly at his lap again.

     A thought suddenly occurred to Ammika,“ 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 to that within a day’s drive of most cities?

                         Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle（Ecco,$14. 99）

1.. 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

2..  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

3..  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

4.  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. Ammika carried out the crime

He asked a lot of questions, none of ______ was easy to answer.

All over the world people enjoy sports．Sports help to keep people healthy，happy and help them to live longer．

Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer．

Games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities．The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday life；they use them in their sports，too．

Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them．Football，for example，has spread around the world．Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers．

Some sports or games go back to thousands of years，like running or jumping．Chinese boxing，for example，has a very long history．But basketball and volleyball are rather new．Neither one is a hundred years old yet．People are inventing new sports or games all the time．

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other but after a game they often become good friends．Sports help to train a person's character(性格)．One learns to fight hard but fight fair，to win without pride and to lose with grace(体面)

1.The writer didn't tell us in this passage that________．

A．basketball was invented in America

B．sports change with the season

C．games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities

D．football is played all over the world

2.People all over the world enjoy sports because_______.

A．sports are interesting

B．sports help to keep people healthy，happy and to live longer

C．sports help to train one’s character

D．all of the above

3.From this passage we can see that _____．

A．sports and games are unimportant things that people do

B．sports and games should be treated(对待)only as amusement(娱乐活动)

C．sports and games are only useful to the old

D．none of the above is true

Once a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete（不完整的）, it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with worms. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece.

Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to worms. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.

Sometimes we are perfect when we lost something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better. He will never know someone is loving him or someone is giving him something he has always wanted or never had.

We couldn’t be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us and then we can always live a wonderful time in our lives.

1.The circle rolled very slowly because it __________.

2.After it was whole again and rolled fast, the circle __________.

3.If a man owns everything, he’ll be __________ in some ways.

4.The story mainly tells us that __________

Although all of the apples ________, none of them ________ good.