Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co-...

Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co-author of the lifestyle books. Here she picks her top reads.

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

There are some books I would never pick up if it weren' t for review purposes and Frankly in Love is one of therm. I bad heard of this book and seen it all over Goodreads.

Within the first few pages of this book, I was all in. I think part of what was so engaging is that it's from he viewpoint of Frank Li, a teen of high school.

Game of Stars by Sayantani Dasgupta

Just like any 12-year-old girl, Kiran is just tying to figure out who she is. Unlike other 12-year-old girls, however, she has to0 deal with titles like "princess and "demon slayer (魔鬼杀手)”. She happens to be a princess from the Kingdom Beyond, a world where gods and demons existed. Now it is up to her to save the kingdom and be the hero.

Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

This is a remarkable book. The depth of the story went far beyond my expectations. The author paints a picture of Lincoln, a portrait (肖像) of strength, determination, and sacrifice in the face of personal and national disaster. Although some readers may find it rude to use a great leader of the United States in a fictional action book for entertainment, Grahame Smith tries to preserve an air of dignity and honor in the character of Lincoln.

1.What does the book Frankly in Love probably show to readers?

A.A world in a teen's eye.

B.The building of a new country.

C.The life of a famous politician.

D.Ways of becoming a top student.

2.If you don't like to read about sex, which do you prefer?

A.Frankly in Love

B.Game of Stars

C.Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

D.Cosmopolitan

3.What is special about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?

A.It's about a romantic painter.

B.It is a collection of pictures.

C.It' s about a country leader.

D.It tells the true life of the author.

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Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co-author of the lifestyle books. Here she picks her top reads.

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

There are some books I would never pick up if it weren' t for review purposes and Frankly in Love is one of therm. I bad heard of this book and seen it all over Goodreads.

Within the first few pages of this book, I was all in. I think part of what was so engaging is that it's from he viewpoint of Frank Li, a teen of high school.

Game of Stars by Sayantani Dasgupta

Just like any 12-year-old girl, Kiran is just tying to figure out who she is. Unlike other 12-year-old girls, however, she has to0 deal with titles like "princess and "demon slayer (魔鬼杀手)”. She happens to be a princess from the Kingdom Beyond, a world where gods and demons existed. Now it is up to her to save the kingdom and be the hero.

Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

This is a remarkable book. The depth of the story went far beyond my expectations. The author paints a picture of Lincoln, a portrait (肖像) of strength, determination, and sacrifice in the face of personal and national disaster. Although some readers may find it rude to use a great leader of the United States in a fictional action book for entertainment, Grahame Smith tries to preserve an air of dignity and honor in the character of Lincoln.

1.What does the book Frankly in Love probably show to readers?

A.A world in a teen's eye.

B.The building of a new country.

C.The life of a famous politician.

D.Ways of becoming a top student.

2.If you don't like to read about sex, which do you prefer?

A.Frankly in Love

B.Game of Stars

C.Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

D.Cosmopolitan

3.What is special about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?

A.It's about a romantic painter.

B.It is a collection of pictures.

C.It' s about a country leader.

D.It tells the true life of the author.

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

The effective communication ability for a writer is to get the knowledge out of his head and ____ readers’ heads.

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A journal is not necessarily a reliable record of facts, for the writer's impressions color the telling of events.

A. shall　　　　　 B. might　　　　　　 C. should　　　　　　 D. must

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A journal is not necessarily a reliable record of facts, for the writer's 　　　　 impressions color the telling of events．

A．shall　　　 　　 　 B．might　　　　　　 C．should　　　　　　 D．must

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For a writer, there is hardly any greater honor than winning the Nobel Prize for literature.

And for a woman writer, claiming the prize is even harder, for only eight women once won it. Austria’s Elfriede Jelinek is the ninth and the first since 1996.

The Stockholm-based Swedish Academy announced last Thursday that Jelinek won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. She is recognized for her socially critical(批判的) novels and plays.

Jelinek, 57, made her literary debut (初次露面) in 1967. She has written plays, novels and poetry. She is best known for her autobiographical 1983 novel “The Piano Teacher”, made into a movie in 2001.

The basic theme of her work is the inability of women to live as people beyond the roles and personalities traditionally expected of them. Her characters struggle to lead lives not normally acceptable in society. “The nature of Jelinek’s texts is often hard to define. They shift between prose(散文) and poetry and songs, they contain theatrical scenes and film script,” said the academy.

The Nobel Prize was founded by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Nobel died in 1896 and left his fortune of about US $920 million to a fund to honor people who have helped other human beings. This year each prize is worth US $13 million.

1. The underlined word “them” in the last second paragraph refers to _______.

2.Elfrede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize just because _______.

3. Which of the following about the Nobel Prize is TRUE?

4.This passage is most likely taken from _______.

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A journal is not necessarily a reliable record of facts, for the writer’s impressions _____ colour the telling of events.

A. must　　　　 B. shall　　　 C. should　　　 D.　 might

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Many of us have wondered what Earth is like beneath the surface. So have writers and scientists. In French novelist Jules Verne’s masterpiece Journey to the Center of the Earth, explorers go down to Earth’s center and discover amazing wonders.

But in real life, human beings haven’t even come close to the planet’s core (核心). The core is over 6,000 km down. The deepest hole ever created, according to the BBC, is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, which only goes 12.3 km down.

So how do we know about everything down below without any samples？

One good way to start is to think about the Earth’s density (密度), Simon Redfern of the University of Cambridge in the UK told the BBC.

“The density of the material on Earth’s surface is much lower than the average density of the whole Earth, so that tells us there’s something that has greater density,” Redfern said.

The challenge is to find out which heavy materials the core is made of. And the main material scientists have found is iron. The idea is that when Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, a lot of iron made its way down to the core, taking up about 80 percent of it. Today scientists are still working on finding out which other materials the core could be made up of.

You might also wonder how we know the size of the core. There’s a one-word answer: seismology (地震学).

When an earthquake happens, seismic stations around the world record the shockwaves it sends throughout the planet. It’s like hitting one side of the planet with a huge hammer and listening on the other side for the noise.

Early research found that some shockwaves, called “S-waves”, went missing. S-waves can only travel through solid material, but not through liquid, so they must have found something molten in Earth’s center. By following the S-waves’ paths, scientists found out that rocks became liquid around 3,000 km down.

There are still many questions about the Earth’s core to answer. But the study of the dark world below isn’t just for scientists’ curiosity.

The movement of Earth’s molten iron core builds up a powerful magnetic (有磁力的) field. It protects us from radiation from the sun and is needed for compasses and GPS systems to work.

So perhaps none of us will ever set eyes on the core, but it’s good to know it’s there.

1.The author mentions Jules Verne’s novel Journey to the Center of the Earth in the first paragraph to　　　　　　　　 .

A. discuss the possibility of going down to Earth’s center

B. show how much humans have discovered about Earth

C. paint a picture in our imagination of the dark world below

D. show humans’ deep interest in Earth’s center

2.We can learn from the article that “S-waves”　　　　　　　　　　　　 .

A. are often used to predict earthquakes

B. cannot travel through liquid material

C. are the most noticeable shockwaves produced by earthquakes

D. can travel most rapidly at 3,000 kilometers below Earth’s surface

3.We can infer from the last three paragraphs that 　　　　　　　　　　　 .

A. research into Earth’s core has hardly made any progress in recent years

B. improvements in GPS systems could help people find out more about Earth

C. Earth’s core helps to protect humans from harm

D. scientists are likely to reach Earth’s center within dozens of years

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My seat is next to _____ of the famous writer so I could ask for some advice from him about writing.

A. that                                   B. this                                    C. it                               D. one

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

My seat is next to _____ of the famous writer so I could ask for some advice from him about writing.

A. that                                   B. this                                    C. it                               D. one

高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析