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Have you read " 'To Kill a Mockingbird’ The only novel by Harper Lee offers moral lessons about racial justice and respect．It tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer．He defends a black man ．
Tom Robinson wrongfully accused of raping（强奸）
a white woman．In the end, an all-white- jury （陪审团）sentences Tom Robinson to death． The book is set in the American, South in the 1930s．
But it came out on July11th, 1960 as the civil rights movement in the United States was gaining strength.
Laws and customs in the South, however, still kept blacks and whites mostly separated．
A mockingbird is a land of gray songbird．The book
gets its title from something Atticus Finch was told in his
childhood when his father gave him a gun. Atticus Finch said, "I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them．But remember, it was a sin （罪过） to kill a mockingbird, for they don't hurt anyone, they just make music．"
Some people said, " 'To Kill a Mockingbird' treats racism in a way that is simplisite（过分单纯化的）, even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's America．" Still, it has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over forty million copies. It is often required reading in high schools. Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize in America in 1961 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.
The story takes place in a town that Harper Lee called Maycomb. But she based the characters on real people she knew growing up．Since then her hometown Monroeville has changed a lot．A number of African-Americans serve m the local government．The courthouse, made famous by the book, is now a museum．A small shop and a fast-food restaurant called Mel's Dairy Dream have replaced Harper Lee's childhood home．
1.We can learn from the passage that Harper Lee __．
A．has written more than-one novel in her life
B．lived in a town called Maycomb as a child
C．had been awarded two prizes in America by 2007
D．likes a mockingbird very much that makes music
2.According to the passage, __ in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is compared to a Mockingbird．
A．Harper Lee B．Scout
C．Attricus Finch D．Tom Robison
3.What is the main idea of the 4th paragraph?
A．A mockingbird doesn't hurt anyone at all．
B．To tell readers how the novel gets its title,
C．A mockingbird is a kind of gray songbird．
D．To kill a mockingbird is more than a hunting．
4.We can infer from the passage that the novel "To Kill Mockingbird" __．
A．was published about 60 years ago
B．was very popular in the late 1930s
C．has been read by millions of high school students
D．gets its title from a story told by Harper Lee's father
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Harper Lee, whose 1961 novel To Kill a Mockingbird on the racial troubles of the American deep south, has died at the age of 89.
Until last year, Lee had been something of a one-book literary legend. To kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies around the world and earned her a Pulitzer prize, remaining a towering presence in American literature. Another novel, Go Set A Watchman, was controversially published in July 2015 as a “sequel” to Mockingbird, though it was later confirmed to be Mockingbird’s first draft.
But from the moment Mockingbird was published to almost instant success, the author consistently avoided public attention. Lee had lived for several years in a nursing home near the house in which she had grown up in Monroeville, Alabama—the setting for Maycomb of her famous book. Her neighbor for 40 years, Sue Sellers, said, “She was such a private person. All she wanted was privacy, but she didn’t get much. There was always somebody following her around.”
James Naughtie, BBC Books Editor, commented on the novels of Harper Lee: “I think she stands, particularly among American readers, as someone who shone a light into a very dark place. She was writing at a time when people were beginning to lift the lid on everything in the South which they’d chosen not to understand. That all changed in the 1960s. So I think her status for writing that book in its extraordinarily direct way will remain.
1.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Lee became successful with stories on American south.
B. People owe Lee’s success to luck to some degree.
C. Mockingbird makes Lee a wonder in American literature.
D. Mockingbird was a bestseller by selling 40 million copies.
2.What does “Maycomb” in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A. A nursing home.
B. Lee’s hometown.
C. A fiction place.
D. A main character.
3.Which best describes Americans’ attitude towards racial troubles before the 1960s?
A. Tolerant. B. Unconcerned. C. Sympathetic. D. Dissatisfied
4.What can we learn from the text?
A. Lee based all her stories on her life.
B. Lee had to avoid being followed by her fans.
C. Lee wrote Go Set A Watchman before Mockingbird.
D. Lee lived in the house where she grew up for the whole life.
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---Have you read any novels written by the famous writer Mo Yan?
--- Yes, of course. I ______ several of his works when I was studying abroad.
A. read B.had read C.have read D. was reading
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Read a lot, I mean a lot! You have to increase your ability for reading. Many students are in the habit of reading only when their exams are approaching while some others read only what they are taught or things that must be read because it is in their curriculum. But listen to me now, I am telling you from my own experience that it is a very bad habit and it is not enough to improve your intelligence.
You have to learn and get ready to become versatile in your reading. The fact that you are studying medicine in school does not mean that you should not know one or two things on politics.
Many people have complained to me that they find it hard to read stuffs like novels but I just shake my head in pity for them because it is obvious they have failed to realize the truth in that wise saying by Margaret Fuller that “today a READER, tomorrow a LEADER!”
When you read, you get to “see” so many places and it will be as if you have visited those places in real life. This is because reading will improve your imagination and creativity and understandi
ng. You also get experience from learning about how people dealt with their various problems thereby saving you from going through the pains and difficulties they must have gone through!
Reading will also help you in improving your vocabulary because you will certainly start coming across so many new words which you will try as much as possible to get accustomed to with the help of the dictionary! The good thing about increasing your vocabulary is that it will also improve your thinking ability. After all, we think in words and the more words you know, the easier it will become for you to express yourself or your thoughts.
And when you read, make sure you read so wide because the more you read, the more you know and the more you know the more intelligent you can become.
1.According to the author, what should students do in terms of reading?
A. They needn’t read unless the exams come.
B. They should read books about intelligence.
C. They must read about politics when their major is medicine.
D. They should read as wide as possible.
2.The underlined word “versatile” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. interested B. many-sided C. content D. confident
3.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Increase your ability for reading
B. Read wide and improve your vocabulary
C. Reading improves your intelligence
D. Reading makes you a leader tomorrow
4.What is the benefit of knowing more words?
A. You will get used to referring to the dictionary when meeting with new words.
B. You will have less difficulty expressing your opinions.
C. Vocabulary will improve your creativity.
D. You can pass your exams with ease.
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When you finish reading the novel, you will have better understanding of society．
A．a; the B．the; a C．不填; the D．a; 不填
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－Have you read the novel?
－Yes. I ____it three times while I was in university.
| A．had read | B．read | C．have read | D．was reading |
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—I find it very difficult to read ________ novel you lent me last week.
—Yes.It's necessary to have ________ good knowledge of history.
A．the；/ B．a；/ C．the；a D．a；a
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— Have you read the novel?
— Yes. I ________ it three times while I was in university.
A. had read B. read
C. have read D. was reading
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Ihalf of the English novel,and I’ll try to finish it at the weekend.
A.read B.have read C.am reading D.will read
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Yesterday we went to the library to do some reading， only to find that it ______．
A． had closed B． had been closed
C． will close D． will be closed
ng. You also get experience from learning about how people dealt with their various problems thereby saving you from going through the pains and difficulties they must have gone through!