Amazon Best Sellers: Best Books
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership-April 17, 2018
by James Comey
In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-risk situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical(道德的) leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
Hardcover $17.99
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos- January 23, 2018
by Jordan B_Peterson
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Famous psychologist Jordan B. Peterson’s answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the great findings of most-advanced scientific research.
Hardcover $15.57
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading Revised Edition
by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and clarifies the various levels of reading and how to achieve them-from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading.
Paperback $10.31
Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People- April 17, 2018
by Bob Goff
Paperback $10.19
What happens when we stop avoiding difficult people and simply love everyone? In his wildly entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a life-altering journey into the secret of living without fear, care, restriction, or worry.
1.If you want to become an effective leader, you can try ________.
A. How to Read a Book B. Everybody, Always
C. 12 Rules for Life D. A Higher Loyalty
2.What do we know about How to Read a Book?
A. It is written by Mortimer J. Adler.
B. It is completely the same as the original one.
C. It has been published since 1940.
D. There are many other books similar to it.
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. All the four books are paperbacks
B. Paperbacks are cheaper than hardbacks
C. Jordan B. Peterson is the former FBI director
D. Bob Goff is a journalist of the New York Times
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Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1939 in the Kingdom of Italy, a bookstore keeper Guido, who is a Jew, falls in love with a local school teacher, Dora, who is to be engaged to a rich civil servant. Guido steals her from her engagement party on a horse. Soon they are married and have a son, Giosue.
In 1945, Guido and his son are forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp. Despite being a non-Jew, Dora demands to be on the same train to join her family. In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son, telling him that the camp is a complicated game in which Giosue must perform the tasks Guido gives him, earning him points；the first team to reach 1,000 points will win a tank.
Guido uses this game to explain features of the concentration camp that would otherwise be scary for a young child. Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness and death at the camp, Giosue does not question this fiction because of his father’s convincing performance and his own innocence. Guido keeps the story right until the end when, in the chaos（混乱）of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells his son to stay in a small box until everybody has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. Guido tries to find Dora, but is caught and killed by a Nazi soldier. As he is taken away to be shot, he maintains the fictions of the game by marching in a goose-step on purpose…
1.How many Academy Awards does the film win?
A. One. B. Two.
C. Three. D. Four.
2.What kind of person is Dora?
A. Loving and responsible. B. Money-loving and foolish.
C. Romantic and hot-headed. D. Brave and intelligent
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Guido lies to make their life more interesting.
B. Giosue regards all that happens as a game.
C. Nazi soldiers killed all the Jews in the camp.
D. Giosue finally knows the truth.
4.This passage is most probably taken from a(n) ________.
A. game brochure B. travel journal
C. history book D. entertainment magazine
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Mrs. Jones was my first patient when I started medical school—and I owe her a lot.
She was under my care for the first two years of my medical training, yet I knew very little about her, except that she was thin, perhaps in her mid 70s. It might seem rather negligent not to know the basic facts of my patient, but I had a valid reason—Mrs. Jones was dead, and had been dead for about three years before I made a patient of her. Mrs. Jones was the dead body that I dissected（解剖）over the first two years of my medical training.
Of course, her name wasn’t really Mrs. Jones, but it seemed a little impolite to be conducting research into someone’s body without even knowing its name, so out of courtesy, I thought she should have one. “Me and Mrs. Jones, we’ve got a thing going on,” went the song coming out of the radio as I unzipped the bag of her on my first day — and so she was christened.
As the months passed, I soon forgot that Mrs. Jones had, in fact, once been alive. One day, though, she suddenly became very human again. I’d been dissecting Mrs. Jones a good 18 months before I got around to the uterus（子宫）. After I’d removed it, the professor came up to me, “If you look at the opening carefully, you’ll see that the angle indicates that this woman has had several children, probably three.” I stared at it, and I suddenly felt very strange. This woman, who had given me something incredibly precious that I’d begun to take for granted, wasn’t a dead body. She was a person, a mother, in fact.
At my graduation, the same professor came over to congratulate me. I explained the story about Mrs. Jones to him, and recalled what he’d told me about her having children and how that had affected me all those years ago.
“Well,” he said, “at the beginning of your training you had a dead body and managed to turn it into a person. Now you’re a doctor, the trick is to have a person and not turn them into a dead body,” and he laughed, shook my hand and walked away.
1.Why didn’t the author know much about Mrs. Jones?
A. Because he was irresponsible for his patients.
B. Because he wasn’t allowed to ask for her privacy.
C. Because he didn’t know her until she passed away.
D. Because he was too careless while dissecting her.
2.How did Mrs. Jones get her name?
A. It was passed down from the seniors of my school.
B. It came from a song being played when we first met.
C. She was named after a well-known singer I liked best.
D. It just occurred to me when I opened the bag of her.
3.What could be the author’s feeling for Mrs. Jones now?
A. Grateful. B. Pitiless.
C. Hateful. D. Guilty.
4.What did the professor imply by his words in the last paragraph?
A. Medical students are able to bring the dead back to life.
B. Being a doctor has nothing to do with the medical training.
C. Good doctors never fail to save their patients from dying.
D. Medical staff ought to have respect for life and humanity.
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Madison Williams, aged 13, was studying in her bedroom in Dublin, Ohio. Suddenly, her mother, Leigh Williams, rushed in saying __________, “A little boy fell into a septic tank（化粪池）, and no one can __________ him.”
They ran to the neighbor’s yard, where they found the boy’s desperate mother and other people __________ a septic tank opening that was slightly wider than a __________. The boy, only 2, had slipped in.
Madison quickly __________ the situation. She was the only one who could __________ through the small hole. Without __________, she got on her stomach next to the opening, placed her __________ out in front of her, __________ told the adults, “Lower me in.”
Leigh and the others __________ her waist and legs. She moved her arms and shoulders from side to side until she got through the __________. Inside, the tank was dark, and the air was sick. She used her hands to __________ the boy in the dirty water, and jammed her left wrist __________ a hidden pole, injuring the muscles in her wrist and arm. Ignoring her __________, Madison continued. Minutes ticked by before she __________ grasped his foot.
Then, ten minutes after Madison had __________ the tank, she and the boy were __________. But the boy wasn’t out of __________. He had been kept from oxygen long enough that he wasn’t __________. An adult gave him several hard hits on the back. It was only when Madison heard him cry that she knew he was __________. Madison’s action made her a hero.
1.A. impatiently B. bravely C. anxiously D. calmly
2.A. reach B. see C. recognize D. hear
3.A. covering B. repairing C. digging D. surrounding
4.A. bowl B. plate C. basketball D. tap
5.A. accepted B. surveyed C. remembered D. drew
6.A. fit B. break C. walk D. look
7.A. effort B. help C. doubt D. hesitation
8.A. arms B. feet C. clothes D. glasses
9.A. still B. even C. and D. so
10.A. lowered B. held C. pushed D. pressed
11.A. water B. opening C. passage D. gate
12.A. exam B. greet C. shake D. feel
13.A. against B. with C. on D. towards
14.A. life B. time C. injury D. direction
15.A. carefully B. finally C. again D. just
16.A. searched B. touched C. entered D. observed
17.A. lifted out B. stepped forward C. moved on D. came away
18.A. balance B. order C. control D. trouble
19.A. talking B. sleeping C. breathing D. smiling
20.A. sad B. OK C. hungry D. different
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填上适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Parkour (跑酷) is a sport which trains people to deal with any physical obstacles in their path. It is not a competition but a physical training. A person joining in parkour is called traceur. Traceurs run along a path and use only their bodies to deal with obstacles in the most efficient way. Parkour pays more attention to efficiency, 1.(make) it different from the similar practice of free running. Parkour 2.(common) includes running, jumping, climbing, rolling and other similar types of physical movements. Many teenagers think that parkour is quite3.cool sport. They have great interest in it.
The 4.(invent) of parkour can’t 5.(give) to one person because many people have worked on it. A french officer developed the earlier form of parkour. The term “parkour” was first introduced by David Belle and Sebastiar Foucan in the early 1980s. 6.that time, they were two teenagers. This sport7.(become) more popular in the 1990s when many films were made on it.
8.makes parkour different from other sports is its power to bring people together. It allows traceurs to forget the9.(society) and other problems, and makes a large group work and grow together instead of competing with each other. People can benefit from parkour as it can make them stronger. Still, it also influences one’s thought process by improving self-confidence and critical-thinking skills. In this way, parkour allows one to deal with 10.(difficulty) in daily life if he or she deals with them through parkour.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除: 把多余的用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last Sunday, I accompanied two of my foreign friends, Tom and Mary, around Chengdu so that they could get a feeling of the amazed city. We began by touring Kuan Zhai Alley that is known for its traditional Chinese architecture. I know the area very good so I acted as their tour guide. For lunch, I tried some Chengdu fried sauce noodles. Tom thought that they were in particularly delicious. Soon before lunch, we went to the Research Base of Giant Panda to pay a visit to the pandas. Both Mary and Tom fall in love with the lovely pandas. We finished off the day by going shopping, and they bought some paper cuts as souvenir. It was fantastic day and I hope they will come to Chengdu again.
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假设你是某高中学生李华，你的美国笔友Tom邀请你下周去他们学校参加文化交流活动，并向外国朋友介绍中国书法。但你忙于准备高考，不得不谢绝。请根据下面要点用英语给Tom 写一封电子邮件，包括以下内容：
1.谢绝邀请及理由；
2. 推荐你的朋友王明参加活动，并说明原因。
注意：1. 词数在100左右，信的开头结尾已写好，不计入总数。
2. 可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
I am Li Hua. I am more than pleased to receive your invitation to the cultural exchange program held in your school next week.
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Yours,
Li Hua
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