题目内容
Best Sellers(畅销书)of the Week
The New York Times
| This Week | Title/Writer/Price/Story | Weeks on List (上榜周数) |
| 1 | The Forgotten Garden,by Kate Morton. $15.85.From England to Australia and back,two women try to solve a family problem. | 18 |
| 2 | The Help,by Helen Scott. $22.95.A young white man helps two black boys. | 58 |
| 3 | Spoken from the Heart,by Laura Bush. $30.00.Wife of U.S.President George W.Bush tells the stories of being the first lady. | 24 |
| 4 | Best Friends Forever,by Carol Brown. $19.95.Childhood friends meet again years later when one needs help. | 6 |
| 5 | Run for Your Life,by James Clark. $27.85.A New York policeman alone must stop a bad man killing people. | 10 |
( ) 1.The information about the Best Sellers of the Week is provided by________.
A.China Daily B.21st Century
C.The New York Times D.Washington Post
( ) 2.The book which has stayed on the list for the longest time is________.
A.The Forgotten Garden B.The Help
C.Spoken from the Heart D.Best Friends Forever
( ) 3.Nancy wants to buy the top three books on the list this week.She has to pay________.
A. $68.80 B.$ 70.75 C.$ 77.80 D. $80.80
( ) 4.David likes to read detective stories,so he can try________.
A.The Forgotten Garden B.The Help
C.Best Friends Forever D.Run for Your Life
( ) 5.Sarah is interested in the family life of American President.She can choose the book written by________.
A.Kate Morton B.Helen Scott C.Laura Bush D.Carol Brown
1C 2B 3A 4D 5C
阅读理解
( ) 1. One hundred years ago my grandmother started school. She was seven, and she went to twenty schools until she reached Year Three at age of go to school any longer.
( ) 2. Grandmother usually walked to school, together with her brother and sister. Sometimes they walked about seven kilometers from home to school, and the same distance back home, in hot sun and in pouring rain. When they were at a school at Illford, there was a mountain between the school and their home in a railway workers’ camp, so to get to school they had to climb the mountain first!
( ) 3. The family was poor and the children usually did not were shoes to school for most of the year, except on the coldest days of the winter.
( ) 4. Grandmother’s schools didn’t always run for five days a week. She went to the half-time school. A teacher shared his time between a small school and another small school not more than a half day’s ride away.
( ) 5. The lunches my grandmother took to school were not much like your lunches. There wasn’t any juice or chips. There weren’t even any sandwiches. They took whatever could be soared from home. Sometimes this was a leftover potato, a piece of homemade bread or a piece of cold mutton.
Choose the best topic from A---F according to the passage.
| A. Walking Barefoot B. Simple Lunch C. My grandmother’s Short Schooling D. The Story of the Schools E. A Half-Time-School F. A Hard Way to School |