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专题03 阅读理解之应用文
一、(福建厦门双十中学2021届高三模拟)
Summer
Author: Ali Smith
Price: £ 16. 99
Ali Smith’s Summer continues the interplay between the recent past and modern day society that marked out her works as insightful. The top of a hugely ambitious and fast paced literary project that aims to display the state of the nation with burning immediacy(直观性), Summer is one of 2020’ s absolute must-reads.
Actress
Author: Anne Enright
Price: £ 16. 99
A beautifully realised novel of mother-daughter relationships and the dark side of fame and adulation(吹捧), Actress skillfully unpacks the secrets and lies of a well known theatre performer and the effects of her bad fame on the child who admired her. With a sharp eye for female interaction and familial meaning, Actress finds the former Booker Prize-winner on excellent form.
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Author: Anne Tyler
Price: £ 14. 99
Redhead by the Side of the Road is both a deliciously perfect love story and a character study of a lovable eccentric(古怪的人), stuck in his ways. Showing the emotional warmth that has made her both a critical darling and a beloved popular author, this is Anne Tyler at her winning best.
Grown Ups
Author: Marian Keyes
Price: £ 20. 00
There are few writers as capable of showing the frictions of family life with as much humour and accuracy as Marian Keyes and her latest sees her on flashing form. When one woman’s accident leads to an outpouring of long-contained complaints and secrets, it calls into question just how civilised and “ grown-up” any of us actually are.
1.What is special about Summer?
A.It is about the reflection of the country.
B.It shows the bad side of the daily life.
C.It shows how a country grew stronger.
D.It tells the fast pace of the present life.
2.What will you see in the book Actress?
A.The hard work of performance.
B.The glory of the film star.
C.The bitter side of a mother.
D.The growth of a rising star.
3.Which of the following shows the everyday life of a lovely couple?
A.Actres