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课时作业
课时作业(二十三)
Back to the past
I,阅读理解
Red Famine:Stalin's War on Ukraine
A
By Anne Applebaum
(2023·江苏省苏州市高三高考考前模拟)
Doubleday:496 pages;35.Allen Lane:E25
Books on the History of Ukraine
The starvation,known as the Holodomor,
The Gates of Europe:A History of Ukraine
swept Ukraine in 1932-33,killing around 4 million
By Serhii Plokhy
people.Anne Applebaum,a Pulitzer-prize winning
Basic Books:395 pages;29.99.Allen Lane:C25
author,convincingly argues that the starvation was
The author is the most distinguished historian
awful,yet left psychological wealth for Ukrainians
of Ukraine(乌克兰)writing in English.This book
who bonded together to preserve their nationalism.
covers the many centuries in which Ukraine was
1.Where does the book The Ukrainian Night take
attacked by powers from all points of the compass.
its name from?
Mr Plokhy shows how Ukrainian language,culture
A.From a film.
B.From a poem.
and identity boomed through hardships-which
C.From a magazine.
D.From a newspaper.
helps explain why Ukrainians are fighting heroical-2.Which book is the cheapest in dollars?
ly to defend themselves.
A.Red Famine:Stalin's War on Ukraine.
Borderland:A Journey Through the History
B.The Gates of Europe:A History of Ukraine.
of Ukraine
C.Borderland:A Journey Through the History
By Anna Reid
of Ukraine.
Basic Books:368 pages;18.99.Weidenfeld
D.The Ukrainian Night:An Intimate History
&.Nicolson;£10.99
of Revolution.
The author first published this mixture of
3.What theme do the four books share?
memoir(回忆录),travelogue and history in 1997,
A.They predict the future of Ukraine.
but updated it in 2015.She introduces appealing U-
B.They face up to historical challenges.
krainians,bygone and contemporary,including
C They pity Ukrainians for their misfortune.
Taras Shevchenko,the national poet,ete.Ms Reid
D.They admit the weaknesses of humans.
does not avoid the horrors of the country's past;
B
but she also finds room for hope.
(2023·江苏省镇江市高三模拟)
The Ukrainian Night:An Intimate History
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