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高考总复习·英语(译林版)
课时作业(二)Let's talk teens
I,阅读理解
3.Which book is intended for teens stepping into a
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novel life?
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A.A Wrinkle in Time.
Reading can make you feel less alone and
B.Wonder.
more connected with the world at large.It can open
C.Brown Girl Dreaming.
your eyes to issues,successes and challenges that
D.The Four Agreements.
you never dreamed of,and take you to faraway
places.Here are the top books all teens should
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read before they turn 18.
We are often reminded of Oscar Wilde's saying
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
that“sarcasm(讽刺)is the lowest form of wit'”while
Though this book recently became popular again
forgetting the following"but the highest form of intelli-
due to the release of the movie version,the movie is not
gence".Parents or teachers of teenagers,in particular,
a substitute for this beautiful story about family and the
process of becoming who you truly are through the
may find it hard to believe that it is actually a sign of a
angle of space and time exploration.
flexible and inventive mind.
Wonder by R.J.Palacio
Yet that is exactly what psychologists and
Auggie was born with a facial difference that kept
neuroscientists have been arguing.They have
him out of school for years.In fifth grade,he discovers
found that sarcasm requires the brain to jump
what it's like to long for normalcy and also that differ-
through numerous hoops (to arrive at a correct
ence can be the most meaningful teacher.
interpretation,requiring more brainpower than
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
、
literal statements.
The author shares beautiful poetry that will
If you're still not convinced that your teen's love
speak to teenagers about her experience of growing
of sarcasm is a thing worth celebrating,consider a recent
up in the South as an African-American in the
experiment from Li Huang,a psychologist at Insead's
1960s and 1970s.The poems are charged with the
business school in Fontainebleau.France.
themes