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Book 3 Unit 2检测卷
第一部分:听力(略)
第二部分:阅读理解
第一节
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Lynda La Plante is the writer of Prime Suspect and the best-selling author of more than 40 books. Her new novel Hidden Killers is out now. She is talking about three books that deeply affected her.
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Bronte
One night as a child, I walked quietly into the bathroom when I heard a voice calling, "Let me in; let me in!" along with a terrible knock on a window coming from my grandmaˈs room. Quite afraid, I cried, "Help me! Whereˈs the ghost?" Grandma looked up and said, "Donˈt be silly; Iˈm listening to a story on the radio called Wuthering Heights." I joined my grandma and realized then how you could take a story from a book and change it to a different medium(媒介).
The Water-Babies
By Charles Kingsley
This classic Victorian story caught my imagination as a child. It made me consider the unfairness of life — why is one child sleeping in comfort and another forced to climb through a chimney(烟囱)? I especially loved all the questions Tom asks on his adventures, many of which are about social unfairness. All my life Iˈve asked questions too.
The Faerie Queene
By Edmund Spenser
I used to have problems reading — I was told I had "word blindness". My mother gave me a copy of Spenserˈs poem and said, "If you can learn some of this then youˈll be able to read anything." I rose to the challenge. I learned it off by heart and was so proud of myself for keeping something that difficult in mind. Then I learned that I could learn words just as well as anyone.
1. How did Lynda first know about the story of Wuthering Heights?
A. By reading a book borrowed from her grandma.
B. By listening to her grandmaˈs story.
C. By listening to it on the radio.
D. By reading a ghost story.
2. Which book made Lynda form the habit of asking questions?
A. Hidden Killers. B. Wuthering Heights.
C. The Water-Babies. D. The Faerie Queene.
3. What change did Lynda show after reading The Faerie Queene?
A. She found pleasure in writing