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After

two

years

of

careful

consideration,

Robert

McCrum

has

reached

a

conclusion

on

his

selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at a few in his list:

The Pilgrim’s Progress

by John Banyan (1678)

A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and beauty of Bu

nyan‟s prose

makes this an English classic.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe (1719)

By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions

and translations. This world-famous novel is a complex literature that one cannot resist.

Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift (1726)

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A great work that‟s been repeatedly printed, Jonathan Swift‟s Gulliver‟s Travels comes third

in our list of the best novels written in English.

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)

Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her dishonorable family to marry a wealthy man she

dislikes, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as „

knowledge about the human heart”.

Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding (1749)

Tom Jones

is a classic English novel that gets the spirit of its age and whose characters are

well-known since they have come to represent the society at that time.

Emma by Jane Austen (1816)

Jane Austen‟s

Emma

is her most outstanding work, mixing the best parts of her early books

with a deep sense of feelings.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)

Edgar

Allan

Poe‟s

only

novel—

a

classic

adventure

story

with

supernatural

elements

—

has

fascinated and influenced generations of writers.

21. Which English book has got the most translations before the 20th century?

A. Robinson Crusoe.

C. Tom Jones.

B. Gulliver‟s Travels.

D. Emma.

22. What does Samuel Johnson think we can learn about from the book Clarissa?

A. A love story.

B. Quarrels in a family.

D. The spirits of the lime.

C. The human heart.

23. What makes the characters in Tom Jones famous?

A. Their classic lifestyles.

B. Their different nationalities.

D. Their representation of the society.

C. Their typical spirits of the age.

B

Our family loves the snow and cheers at the first good storm of the season. While others may

think of Florida, we dream of a cabin vacation in New York‟s Allegany State Park.

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One particular trip, I recall, was just a bit more memorable than the rest. What we now refer

to as the snow pants incident began accidentally enough. My husband, Bernie, and our 2-year-old

daughter, Faith, were building a snow fort while I sledded down a nearby slope.

On the way back up from one trip, I saw a small stone tumbling down the track I had just

made. I was puzzled, since all the other rocks were buried under several feet of snow, as I stood

and wondered about the stone…it jumped! This was no stone. This was a mouse.

Now, I love natur

e, but that doesn‟t include mice. I loudly protested the invader, and Bernie,

coming

to

my

rescue,

assured

me

that

this

was

not

a

mouse

but

a

mole,

as

if

that

mattered.

A

mouse or a mole I still didn‟t like it.

Bernie and I stood for a few minutes watching the creature disappear from the path into the

furry white and come back out again. But soon it disappeared and I headed up the hill again.

Shortly after I left, my husband screamed out, saying that the mole had gone up the leg of his

snow pants. You have to understand Bernie can be quite a joker, and I smelled a rat. Not wanting

to be a sucker and fall for another one of his jokes, I laughed it off. When he started running for

the cabin, though, I stopped laughing and decided maybe this was for real.

“Don‟t you dare take that thing into the house!” I yelled. But like a flash, Bemie was already

dashing through the cabin‟s front door, with his snow pants, the mole and all. If it were me, l

，

d

have been down to my long underwear right there in the snow without a second thought.

A few minutes later Bemie

appeared. We relished the rest of our winter vacation, drinking

lots of hot chocolate, sitting beside the fireplace and admiring nature

—

from a safe distance.

24. Why did the author‟s husband come to her rescue?

A

. Because the “mouse” frightened her

.

B. Because she hardly controlled the sled.

C. Because the snow fort she built was damaged.

D. Because she stepped on the stone and fell down.

25. When her husband said that the mole had gone up the leg of his snow pants, the author

was ________.

A. curious

B. puzzled

C. excited

D. doubtful

26. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. They enjoyed the rest of their holiday

B. They were fond of hot chocolate

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C. Her husband had freedom at last

D. Nature can be dangerous at times

27. What could be the best title of the text?

A. A Memorable Experience with a Joker

B. The Painful Incident in Allegany State Park

C. Family‟s Funny Vacation in the Snow

D. My Strong Love for Nature

C

In 2013

，

a report from The Nero England Journal of Medicine showed that increased body

weight is related to the death rate for all cancers. This is based on a study involving about 900,000

people, spanning many years.

The study, started in 1992 by the American Cancer Society, included men and women from

all

50

states.

The

youngest

participants

were

30

years

old,

and

the

average

age

was

57.

By

December

2008,

24%

of

the

participants

had

died,

just

a

quarter

of

them

from

cancers.

In

analyzing the results, researchers attempted to take account of such potential factors as smoking

drinking alcohol, taking aspirin and a wide variety of other factors that might otherwise affect the

results.

The results are clear: the more you weigh, the greater your risk of dying of cancer will be (up

to 52% higher for men and 62% for women). In men as well as women, the only cancers that did

not

have

a

strong

connection

with

weight

were

lung

cancer

and-brain

cancer.

For

women,

the

strongest

correlation

with

weight

was

uterine

cancer

(

子宫癌

),

which

is

6.5

times

higher

for

women with a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 40 or more. For men, it was liver cancer, which is 4.5

times higher in most obese (

肥胖的

) men.

Smokers

tend

to

be

more

successful

in

keeping

weight

off

than

non- smokers,

slightly

reducing t

he risk. But many of them don‟t have good lungs. Thus, in another way, they also face

risks. As for why extra weight leads to excess cancer death rate, there‟s no clear agreement. But

the decrease in vitamin D in obese people seems a likely factor. Vitamin D is known to have a role

in

preventing

cancer. Also, there

is

a

simple

fact

that obesity

makes

the

management

of

cancer

more difficult. Although for now there is no simple answer to why obesity increases a person‟s

cancer risk, all we know for certain is that the risk is real.

28. The passage is mainly concerned with the relationship between ________.

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A. diet and cancer

C. sex and cancer

B. body weight and cancer

D. smoking and cancer

29. The author develops the passage mainly through ________.

A. time order

B. space order

D. figures and examples

C. analysis and comparison

30. The underlined word “spanning” in the first paragraph probably means

“

________

”

.

A. lasting

B. including

C. happening

D. changing

31. According to the passage, what can we learn about the study?

A. There is a clear explanation concerning why obesity leads to more cancers.

B. Generally speaking, women face fewer risks of dying of cancer than men

C. Women with a BMI of 40 dying of uterine cancer are more than other women.

D. Smokers are still likely to face risks of dying of cancer though keeping weight off.

D

I was at my parent‟s dinner table. Before me was a worn journal of thin and discolored pages.

It was my grandfather‟s journal and now belonged to my fath

er. My grandfather had passed away

in

the

months

leading

up

to

my

birth.

I

never

got

to

visit

the

places

he

had

frequented

and

the

people who had been a part of his life‟s journey.

I was now about to enter his world, through the words he had left behind. Within minutes, I

was captivated by the power of the written words. In the magical script (

笔迹

) before me, I was

transported to another age when food was an everyday art, planned, prepared and enjoyed in the

company of others

，

and a time when people had the heart to pause their own lives to embrace (

拥

抱

)

each other‟s struggles. All this was conveyed to

me in the beauty of the words that flowed

together to connect with the writer‟s mind and understand the world they lived in.

That

kind

of

writing

seems

to

be

lost

on

us

today.

We

have

gotten

used

lo

writing

in

bite- sized pieces for a public looking for entertainment, and hungry for information. No wonder,

there are nearly 200 million bloggers on the Internet and a new blog is created somewhere in the

world

every

half

a

second.

Instead

of

adding

to

our

collective

wisdom,

most

of

these

writings

reflect the superficiality (

肤浅

) and impatience of our day and age.

This

not

only

robs

us

of

the

skill

of

writing

impressive

essays,

it

also

prevents

us

from

exploring

what

is

indeed

important.

Writing

humbles(

使谦卑

)

us

in

a

way

that

is

vital

for

our

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