2020-2021学年高二英语外研版(2019)选择性必修第二册寒假作业Unit 4 B卷 ??? Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co-author of the This Book Will?series (系列) of lifestyle books. Here she picks her top reads. Matilda Roald Dahl ??? I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful worlds. Matilda's battles with her cruel parents and the bossy headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, are equally funny and frightening, but they're also aspirational. After Dark ?Haruki Murakami ??? It's about two sisters — Eri, a model who either won't or can't stop sleeping, and Mari, a young student. In trying to connect to her sister, Mari starts changing her life and discovers a world of diverse "night people" who are hiding secrets. Gone Girl Gillian Flynn ??? There was a bit of me that didn't want to love this when everyone else on the planet did, but the horror story is brilliant. There's tension and anxiety from the beginning as Nick and Amy battle for your trust. It's a real whodunit and the frustration when you realise what's going on is horribly enjoyable. The Stand Stephen King ??? This is an excellent fantasy novel from one of the best storytellers around. After a serious flu outbreak wipes out 99.4% of the world's population, a battle unfolds between good and evil among those left. Randall Flagg is one of the scariest characters ever. 1.Who does "I" refer to in the text? A.Stephen King. B.Gillian Flynn. C.Jo Usmar. .Roald Dahl. 2.Which of the following tells about Mari and Eri? A.Cosmopolitan. B.Matilda. C.After Dark. D.The Stand. 3.What kind of book is Gone Girl? A.A folk tale. B.A biography. C.A love story. D.A horror story. ?? Just in a few years out of law school, I decided that I wanted to write fiction. The only thing I had ever published before was a law-review article. I had made great efforts to write when I came home at night after work, but I was too tired. I decided to quit my job. ??? I began my new life on a February morning. I sat down at my kitchen table at 7: 30 am and made a resolution. Every day I would write until lunchtime. Then I would lie down on the floor for 20 minutes to rest my mind. After that, I would return to work for a few more hours. ??? In my first year, I sold two stories. Then I wrote a novel, but I thought it wasn't good enough, so I ended up putting it in a drawer. My second novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, was published with glowing(热情赞扬的) reviews and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. ??? My success sounds like a familiar story, but actually it was far from suddenness. I quit my job, and for every story I published in those years, I had at least 30 rejections. The novel that I put away in the drawer took me four years. My breakthrough came in 2006, 18 years after I first sat down to write at my kitchen table. ??? Sometimes genius (天赋) is just the thing that comes out after 20 years of workin ... ...
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