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The deal means that Rowling"s long-standing relationship with Bloomsbury, the London-based publisher that launched (发行) the Harry Potter books, has come to an end, at least in terms of new works by the
author.
Rowling is keeping her fans guessing about the characters and plot of her new book. She only said that the new novel will be nothing like the Harry Potter series, which was sold over 30 million copies in the UK alone. She thought that with the move from children"s to adult fiction, a switch to a new publisher seemed
like a natural and reasonable step.
She said, "Although I"ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, this book will be very different from the
Harry Potter series. The freedom to explore a new field is a gift that Harry"s success has brought me."
Ian Rankin, the Edinburgh-based author whose highly-successful detective novels are also set in the
city, suggested Rowling"s book will be a crime novel.
"Wouldn"t it be funny if JK Rowling"s first novel for adults turned out to be a crime story set in
Edinburgh?" he said.
Industry insiders guessed that the deal is worth more than ￡5 million and the new book is expected to come out later this year.
A spokesman said, "JK Rowling"s audience is vast and her position is unique. Harry Potter books were a global success and her fans are very loyal. Children that were eight, nine, or ten when the books first
came out in the 1990s are now in their 20s. Plenty of adults, loved the books regardless of whether they
had children, so the potential market for her is huge."
A. JK Rowling has signed a deal with a new publisher.
B. JK Rowling"s new book will be more successful than her Harry Potter series.
C. JK Rowling"s first book for adults will be published later this year.
D. JK Rowling has to switch to a new publisher in order to publish her new book.
2. JK Rowling"s new book for adults_____.
A. has been sold 30 million copies in the UK alone
B. is poorly thought of by the London-based publisher Bloomsbury
C. has nothing in common with the Harry Potter series
D. is expected to bring her more money than the Harry Potter series
3. The author used Ian Rankin"s words in order to _____.
A. tell us that some famous novelists offer to give Rowling some advice
B. show that many readers are curious about Rowling"s new book
C. tell us that many readers prefer to read detective or crime novels
D. prove that a crime story set in Edinburgh is sure to be successful
4. We can learn from the text that _____.
A. Little, Brown and Company is specialized in publishing adult books
B. the author has no doubt about the success of Rowling"s new book
C. JK Rowling will be a crime novelist as good as Ian Rankin
D. it was in Edinburgh that Ian Rankin got to know JK Rowling
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试题【阅读理解 JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, has signed a deal with Little, Bro】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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of a famous pop song appeared on the Internet took to the stage in front of thousands of fans in Shanghai
last Saturday.
Wang Xu, 44, and Liu Gang, 29, sang “In the Spring” alongside the song’s star composer Wang Feng, in front of about 80,000 people at the Shanghai Stadium.
The audience buzzed with excitement and let out deafening cheers, the moment as they were introduced on the stage and then when Liu started the first sentence of their parts of the song.
The two migrant workers became stars after singing the tearjerker (催人泪下的) song during an
evening drinking session in a 6-square-meter rented room in a late August evening. A friend recorded the
performance on a cell phone and posted it on the Internet.
"If someday I am dead, please bury me in the spring," they sing. Wang’s penetrating chorus (合唱),
delivered with his eyes closed, has moved thousands to tears.
Wang and Liu consider the song a true portrait of lower-class groups like themselves. “With no credit
card, no girlfriend, or a home with hot water, but only a guitar, I am singing happily, on streets, under
bridges or in the wild country, though nobody pays attention to the music,” they sing.
To support his wife and two sons, Wang came to Beijing in 2000 from the countryside and has worked as a boiler man, and street peddler, before becoming a medical warehouse keeper, with a monthly pay of
around 1,500 yuan. Little is left after he pays 600 yuan for rent and buys food.
Liu came to Beijing in 2002. “I wanted to try my luck in the big city,” he said. He had worked as a
guard, roadside peddler, and port
er, but never had a stable job. Street performing was his main income, even after he married and became a father three years ago.
Wang and Liu are still uncertain where their fame will lead. Wang has started learning to use a
computer. They even have a microblog(微博) account to communicate with fans.
1. Wang Xu and Liu Gang first became nationally known after ______.
A. they sang the song “In the Spring” with a star composer Wang Feng
B. they started their microblog
C. they sang on streets and under bridges
D. the video of them singing “In the Spring” was posted on the Internet
2. People like Wang and Liu"s version of “In the Spring” because ______.
A. it is a heartfelt expression of the two singers as migrant workers
B. they were introduced to the public by the song writer himself
C. it was specially composed for them two
D. they sang the song better than other singers
3. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A. migrant workers’ conditions will be improved soon
B. a song showing people’s real life and feelings is more likely to be accepted
C. they will learn to write songs on computers
D. singers from migrant workers are more likely to become popular
4. The best possible title for the passage is______.
A. A Successful Internet Performance
B. “In the Spring” - A Touching Song
C. Internet Farmer Stars Make Stage Appearance
D. No Pains, No Gains
Robert Frost was one of America"s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came
late in his life.
He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America"s Civil War. The general"s name was Robert
Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general.
Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best
thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost"s childhood was unhappy
enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost"s father was a reporter who wanted to be a
politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger.
Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert"s grandfather offered to pay his
costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.
Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he
held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a
successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten
dollars a year from writing.
In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy"s Will.
When it appeared in 1913, Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had
not received in his own country.
Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He
wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost"s second book of poems published in
America. That book was called North of Boston.
A. Robert Edward Lee
B. Robert Lee Frost
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Ezra Pound
2. The passage wrote about Hemingway in order to show that __________.
A. he had great influence on Frost"s poetry and life
B. Frost"s poetry style was the same as Hemingway"s
C. Frost was unhappy because he was the victim of his father
D. Frost spent his childhood unhappily
3. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Once Frost"s first book was published he gained great praise in his country.
B. After leaving Harvard University, he began to learn to write poetry.
C. Frost was found lo have a gift in poetry while he studied in high school.
D. Robert Frost"s father was angry and drank a lot because he didn"t realize his dream.
4. What"s the passage mainly about?
A. Robert Frost"s unhappy childhood.
B. Robert Frost" s first and second book.
C. Robert Frost"s family and jobs.
D. Robert Frost"s life and poetry.
different from her classmates is her age-----73 years. She has been studying at college, a few courses at
a time, for 27 years.
When Lillian Hanson graduated from high school, she went to the bank to borrow money for further
education. The banker gave her no encouragement. He didn"t think that a country girl should borrow
money to go to college. He thought she should be at home doing work in the house or around the farm.
So Lillian Hanson went home and raised a family of nine children instead of going to college. Mrs. Hanson never forgot her dream of getting a higher education. When her children were grown, she tried again.
She finds that it is the hardest part of going back to school at her age to sit in class for long periods of
time. Because she is not as quick as she used to be, Mrs. Hanson often gets up and walks around classes
to keep from getting stiff(不灵活). At the beginning of a course in using the computer, the other students
all stood up to give her a warm welcome when she introduced herself and explained why she was there
and what her aims were.
enough moneyB. she was a country girl
C. the banker ordered her not to borrow any money
D. the banker thought she should raise a family of nine children
B. she was good at telling funny stories
C. they wanted to get her help in their studies
D. they were deeply moved by her spirit
b. She finished high school.
c. She got married and gave birth to nine children.
d. She had her 73rd birthday.
e. She went to the bank to borrow money.
A. a c b e d
B. b e c a d
C. b c e d a
D. e d a c b
St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917
he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had
to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: "My own happiness in the past
often approached such joy that I could not share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk
it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary." F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald
began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel The Beautiful and Damned
(1922), a collection of short stories Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923).
But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise
from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published
another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald"s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to
reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During
this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his
dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
B. 6.
C. 7.
D. 8.
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
B. b-e-a-f-c-d
C. b-f-c-d-e-a
D. f-d-e-c-b-a
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
D. would have completed more works if his wife hadn"t broken down
B. Zelda"s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald"s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald"s contributions to the literary world
an eight-year __1_ .Li Jun comes from a poor family in a small village of Hubei Province．He first __2__ going to college in the year 2000 __3__ he was admitted by a 1ocal school after __4_ from a secondary technical school at age 17．A __5_art student，he passed the exam again next year but __6__ school
due to economic pressures in September 2002．Life seemed __7__but Li didn’t’t give in．He earned
a ___8__ by working part time in Wuhan’s art rooms and tutoring students．But he never lost sight of his
lifelong dream of __9__the Academy of Arts＆Design of Tsinghua University．Li _10__ the college
entrance examination for five continuous years starting from 2003． __11 ，he missed making the cut by one mark last year．
In 2008，his fifth try，Li’s efforts __12 .He finished the qualifying exam in his province and was finally admitted as a sculpture major into Tsinghua University．Every year．Li took art __13_ in Beijing and took exams from December to March．He then took cultural courses in his school till June．The rest of the year he spent on __14__work．Li said he hadn’t __15__ any money from his family since he graduated
from the technical secondary school．Li said the reason he maintained for eight years was that he wanted
to change his _16__ through knowledge。
__17 _by his contribution，Li Jun’s university ___18__ him 9000 yuan out of his tuition fees of 11450 yuan．An eight-year struggle may have come to an end for LiJun，but a new _19__ has now begun．Li said he would not worry about repaying loans at present．He wants to study well and ___20 _ more
scholarships．
( )2.A．talked of
( )3.A．where
( )4.A．learning
( )5.A．gifted
( )6.A. went on with
( )7.A．unfair
( )8.A．value
( )9.A．entering
( )10.A．turned to
( )11.A．Instead
( )12.A．took off
( )13.A．ways
( )14.A．fulltime
( )15.A．asked for
( )16.A．fate
( )17.A．Encouraged
( )18.A．funded
( )19.A．challenge
( )20.A．spend
B．told of
B．since
B．separating
B．surprised
B. watched out for
B．hard
B．respect
B．visiting
B．applied for
B．At times
B．paid off
B．programmes
B．parttime
B．looked for
B．ideal
B．1nfluenccd
B．gave
B．1ife
B．win
C．dreamt of
C．that
C．dating
C．interested
C. 1ooked forward to
C．practical
C．freedom
C．supporting
C．called for
C．However
C．gave off
C．courses
C．outofdoor
C．prayed for
C．plan
C．Accused
C．paid
C．case
C．care
D．knew of
D．when
D．graduating
D．easy going
D．dropped out of
D．busy
D．1iving
D．pursuing
D．adapted to
D．Besides
D．sent off
D．success
D．all
D．waited for
D．opinion
D．Impressed
D．cost
D．relationship
D．use
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