"Reading makes a full man" (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor
Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our hi story, culture and many other things.
Jane Austen was one of the most well-known women writers of the world. She was born in England in
1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them,
Pride and Prejudice written in 1779 was the most popular. |
Victor Hugo, born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing
and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, the Hunchback
of Notre-Dame, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into
many other languages across Europe. |
Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience
had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and
1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize
in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea. | 核心考点
试题【阅读理解 "Reading makes a full man" (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the write】；主要考察你对 日常生活类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 根据短文内容和所给中文提示，写出空白处各单词的正确形式,每空限填空一词。 | The 30th Olympic Games will be held in London from July 27 to August 12 this summer. It is the
1 (第三) time for London to hold the Olympics. People there are excited. They all help to prepare
for it. They plant lots of fl owers and 2 (树) to make the city beautiful. More and more people to go
work by bus or by 3 (自行车). The city is now very 4 (干净的) and tidy. London is ready to 5 (欢迎) people from different countries.
The weather will be 6 (凉爽的) by then. People around the world will 7 (相逢,遇见) in
London. They can not only watch the games but also take a 8 (短的) trip there. They can 9 (参观)
the British Museum and the National Gallery. It is also of great fun to enjoy the London Eye and Tower
Bridge along the Thames, a beautiful 10 (河) in London. How wonderful it will be! | | 任务型阅读 | 五位中国学生想去世界名校学习，请仔细阅读第1－5题中的学生个人信息和他们的态度，然后从A至F六个选项中，帮助他们选择最合适的大学(其中一项为多余选项)。
| University | Country | Popular majors | Other information | | A | The university of Melbourne | Australia | Arts | 11 art clubs | | B | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | China | Business
Nursing | Free school bus | | C | The University of Tokyo | Japan | Earthquake Study;
Engineering | Easy to get part-time jobs | | D | The University of Leeds | The UK | Business | Many libraries | | E | The University of Michigan | The USA | Engineering | Large libraries | | F | The University of Pennsylvania | The USA | arts | Near the city center | | 完形填空 | Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don"t
know how to do 1 . Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big problem.
Joy is 14 years old. One day her parents went away 2 business, so she had to stay at home alone.
At first she thought she would be happy 3 her parents were not in. She could do everything 4 she
liked. But it was six o"clock in the afternoon, she felt 5 . "Oh, it"s time to have supper. Where can I get
my food?" she said to herself. Later she found some food in the fridge, but she 6 know how to cook. At
that moment, she missed her 7 very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and 8 some
food to eat.
Many of teenagers are 9 as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life skills, like cooking,
tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves 10 . They shouldn"t depend too much on their parents. | ( )1. A. their homework
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D. slowly | | 完形填空。 | Dear Lucy,
We are back in Garden City now. We had 1 good trip.
I 2 to collect my photos yesterday. They 3 great! I showed these
photos 4 my classmates. They all 5 them.
There is a photo of Ben and Simon 6 the Great Wall. There is one of you
and 7 in the Forbidden City(紫禁城).
We really enjoyed 8 vacation. We were sad(悲伤)to 9 you.
You must 10 and visit us in Garden City at Chinese New Year.
Love,
Kitty | ( )1. A. other
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D. came | | 任务型阅读：(阅读下面短文,然后根据短文内容每空填写一个单词完成1-5小题。) | Katie Spotz is a 22-year-old girl form America. She wants to cross the Atlantic Ocean by boat. If she succeeds, she"ll be the youngest and the first American to finish the 2500-mile trip.
Spotz began sailing when she was at university, but she has never tried to sail such a long way before. It will be a great challenge for her. In recent years, she has swum all the way down the 325-mile Allegheny River and traveled by bike form Seattle to Washington.
Spotz knows that she may see some dangerous things during the trip. It will be very dangerous if she meets very bad weather in the middle of the sea. But she believes that she can deal with all the difficulties.
"I never thought I could run 26 miles," she said. "But once I finished it, I realized that maybe I could do something even more difficult."
Spotz wants to collect money by going on this trip. She wants to collect money for an organization called "Blue Planet run". The organization offers free, safe drinking water to people who need it.
It"s take her about three months to finish this trip. Good luck to this brave girl and best wishes to her! | | The age of Spotz | 1 years old | | The distance of the trip | 2 miles | | A dangerous thing during the trip is | the 3 weather | | The purpose of the trip | to collect 4 for an organization | | The trip will take | About 5 months . |
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