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大题预测03阅读训练(第三组)
(建议用时:40分钟 满分:50分)
第二部分 阅读(共两节,满分 50分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2. 5分,满分 37. 5 分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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(2024·河北石家庄·校联考三模)Here are the books that often appear on high-school reading lists for 12th-grade students, and are often discussed in greater depth in college literature courses. The books on this list are important introductions to world literature.
The Seagull
By Anton Chekhov
Price:$40.4
The book is a scene-of-life read set in the Russian countryside at the end of the 19th century. All characters are dissatisfied with their lives. Some want love. Some want success.No one, however, ever seems to get happiness. Some people view The Seagull as a tragic (悲剧的) play about always unhappy people. Others see it as a humorous and bitter book,making fun of humans’ foolishness.
Candide
By Voltaire
Price:$48.6
Voltaire offers his view of society in Candide. The book was published in 1759, and it is often considered the author’s most important work. A simple-minded young man, Candide is sure his world is the best of all worlds, but a trip around the world opens his eyes about what he believes to be true.
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte
Price:$128.6
Charlotte Bronte’s heroine was one of the first in English literature to serve as first-person narrator(讲述者) of her own life story. Jane falls in love with a rich man, Rochester,but on her own terms, and only after he has proven himself worthy of her.
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison
Price:$28.6
It tells a story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl who dreams of having blue eyes-a sign of acceptance in a world ruled by white conceptions of beauty.
21.What is special about The Seagull?
A.People have different ideas about it.
B.Characters in it are happy with their life.
C.All characters make their dreams true finally.
D.It tells the life in America at the end of the 19th century.
22.What changes Candide’s idea about a wonderful world?
A.The bad luck he met in life. B.A book he read accidentally.