In the novel, language must be adapted to the...

In the novel, language must be adapted to the characters who are speaking, _____ creates a vivid and believable character .

A.which B.who C.that D.what

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____on his novel, the author decided to adapt it into a play.

A. Basing           B. Based          C. To base        D. Being based

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.____on his novel, the author decided to adapt it into a play.

A. Basing                    B. Based                  C. To base               D. Being based

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Characters in novels don’t always do what the writer wants them to do. Sometimes they cause trouble, take on lives of their own, or even work against the writer. It’s not just a problem for inexperienced authors: famed children’s novelist Roald Dahl said he got the main character in his book Matilda so “wrong”that when he’d finished his first version, he threw it away and started again.

Of course it’s not the characters’ fault. The problem lies with the author. Take Stephen King, who admitted that writing working-class characters is more difficult nowadays because his own circumstances have changed. “It is definitely harder,”King said.“When I wrote Carrie many years ago, I was one step away from physical labour.”

This is also true for characters’ ages, added King.“When you have small children, it is easy to write young characters because you observe them and you have them in your life all the time. But your kids grow up, it’s been harder for me to write about this little 12-year-old girl in my new book because my models are gone.”

For other authors, such as Karen Fowler, there’s one quality that can stop a character in its tracks: boredom.“I had particular problems with the main character in my historical novel Sister Noon,”she says.“She had attitudes about race and religion that seemed appropriate to me for her time and class, but they were not attitudes I liked. Eventually I grew quite bored with her. You can write a book about a character you dislike or a character you disagree with, but I don’t think you can write a book about a character who bores you.”

According to Neel Mukherjee, it was Adinath, a character in The Lives of Others, who made him work the hardest.“I think I struggled because it’s difficult to write a character whose most prominent personal feature is weakness, as Adinath’s is, without making that feature define him,”Mukherjee says. But a troublesome character is far from an unwelcome guest, he continues, arguing that “when characters work against the author they come alive and become unpredictable”.

“That is a fantastic thing to happen,”Mukherjee says.“I celebrate it. It is one of the great, lucky gifts given to a writer.”

1.What can we infer about Stephen King’s book Carrie?

A.It was his most difficult book to write.

B.It was the first successful novel King wrote.

C.There were few children featured in the story.

D.Some of its main characters were working class.

2.Why did Karen Fowler have trouble writing the main character in her novel Sister Noon?

A.She disagreed with the character’s attitudes.

B.The age difference between the two was too large.

C.She found the character very uninteresting.

D.The historical setting made accuracy difficult.

3.What does Neel Mukherjee think of his difficult-to-write characters?

A.They are a sign that the story is not realistic.

B.They are often the most interesting.

C.They should be praised by all authors.

D.They need to be researched more thoroughly.

4.In which part of the newspaper would you expect to find the passage?

A. Careers. 　　　　　　　　　 B. Culture.

C. Entertainment. 　　　　　 D. Lifestyle.

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The candidate who is longing for election to the highest office in the United States must be native-born American citizen who is at least 35 years old and who has lived in the United States for at least 14 years. The election course is complicated, and the road to the Oval Office is long.

Potential candidates must present papers stating their intention to seek their party’s recommendation; delegates(代表) then choose from among those running some months later at the national conferences. Before that, however, each state holds a primary election that determines how the state’s voters want the party’s delegates to vote. Methods of choosing the delegates vary from state to state. At the conferences, there are speeches and often heated discussions. It may take several rounds of voting before delegates can agree on a candidate. On the final day of the meeting, the presidential candidate announces his or her choice for vice president.

Election Day, by law, is the Tuesday that follows the first Monday in November. On this day, registered voters may cast their votes for president, vice president, and candidates for other federal state, and local offices. The popular vote, however, does not determine who will be president. The president is chosen by a vote of the Electoral College, a group of 538 citizens from the 50 states and the District of Columbia who are chosen to cast votes for the president and vice president.

The rules for choosing electors, as with the delegates, vary. Each state also decides whether its electoral votes must reflect the popular vote. The number of electors in each state is determined by the number of representatives and senators that a state sends to Congress and, therefore, may change every 10 years, depending on the results of the United States census (人口普查). The winner must get at least 270 of the electoral votes when the Electoral College meets in December of the election year. The election results are not official, however, until the following January, when Congress meets in a joint conference to count the electoral votes.

At the end of the road to the Oval Office is the swearing-in ceremony, at which the new or reelected president takes the oath of office on January 20.

1.Which of the following is not a requirement for candidates for the presidency of the USA?

A. Minimum age of thirty-five years old.　　　

B. Native of the United States of America.

C. Bottom residency of fourteen years in the State

D. Previous experience in an elective office.

2.According to the passage, we can conclude that _______.

A. ways to select the delegates of each state are very much the same in the USA.

B. the candidate who wins the popular vote will be the winner of the election

C. the change of a state’s population barely has effects on the presidential election.

D. the presidents of the United States are theoretically picked by the citizens directly.

3.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A. The Various Ways of Presidential Election in the USA

B. The Qualifications for Being the President of the USA

C. The Process of the Election for the President of the USA

D. The Rules for Choosing Presidential Candidates in the USA

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According to the literary review, Shakespeare ________ his characters live through their language in his plays.

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Ask any readers who their favorite fictional character in a novel is and you'll likely get a detailed explanation about the beloved character that they admire. It might even sound like they're talking about a person they know.

In a study, researchers looked at the brains of a group of people over nine days. Half of the group read the novel Pompeii, and half didn't. After examining, researchers found the readers' brains showed heightened connectivity in some areas. This is likely because the brain imagines the movement and emotions of the character they read about in the book. Even though the participants were then asked not to read the novel, they kept this heightened connectivity. We call that a "shadow activity", almost like a muscle memory. So even after you've finished a book, your brain keeps those benefits for some time afterwards.

It has been suggested that people who read a lot of fiction become more empathic (移情的),because fiction is a simulation (模仿)of social experiences, in which people practice and improve their interpersonal skills. The people who not only read fiction, but felt a high level of "emotion transportation" while reading as compared to people who weren't taken by the story or who read non-fiction displayed higher levels of empathy when tested. Increase of empathy is important for people because empathy is positively related to creativity, performance at work and cooperative behaviors.

Besides, reading improves "Theory of Mind". It is “the ability to understand that others have mental states that are different from one' s own.” Of various activities, reading novels has been found to improve this ability, while watching television programs or movies has been found to do just the opposite a reduced understanding of others and weaker cognitive (认知的)development overall.

Maybe we should put more of a priority on novel-reading. And many readers believe that reading a novel is far better and more meaningful than watching any movie. As David Kidd of the New School study said, “Fiction is not just a simulator of a social experience; it is a social experience."

1.Which of the statements is true according to Paragraph 2?

A.When they finish a book, the brain connectivity disappears.

B.The participants in the study all read the novel Pompeii.

C.Reading novels increases connectivity in our brain.

D.Reading novels helps enhance our memory greatly.

2.What do we know about novel readers from Paragraph 3?

A.They tend to be emotional in social experiences.

B.They are more likely to be innovative and cooperative.

C.They have poor interpersonal skills.

D.They are more sensitive to others' views.

3.What' s the effect of watching TV or movies?

A.It distinguishes your views from those of others.

B.It contributes to your cognitive development.

C.It reduces your empathy for others a lot.

D.It changes your overall mental states.

4.What does the underlined word "priority" in the last paragraph mean?

A.Preference. B.Authority.

C.Exposure. D.Evaluation.

5.What do you think is the best title for the passage?

A.Reading fiction VS Watching movie B.Reading fiction makes a full man

C.Novel-reading is a ''shadow activity" D.Novel-readers share emotions

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（2014重庆一中高三下第三次月考）1. — Can you finish the novel in _____ hour or two?

— You must be joking; it’s out of _____ question.

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Gyber language is popular among Chinese netizens, who create English words to reflect novel phenomenon in society.

"Gelivable", combining pinyin of Chinese characters Geili (giving strength) with the English suffix for adjectives, literally means "giving power" or "cool". Similarly, "Hengelivable" means "very cool", and "ungelivable" means "dull, not cool at all". "Antizen" referred to the group of college graduates who, earning a meager salary and living in small rented apartments, are like the tiny and laborious ants.

David Tool, a professor with the Beijing International Studies University said it’s very interesting to combine Chinese with English to create new words. “English is no longer mysterious to the Chinese people. They can use the language in a flexible way according to their own experiences,” he said. Chinese words and expressions were created, as well, by netizens. One example was “Suan Ni Hen”. This three-charessions were created, as well, by netizens. One example was “Suan Ni Hen”. This three-character expression, which originally meant “you win” with the first character carrying the same pronunciation as garlic in Chinese, is used to satirize（讽刺）high garlic and food prices this winter.

Chinese people use the character “bei” before a verb to show a passive voice, and it is used by netizens to show the helplessness in front of false conclusions and fake media reports. For instance, “zisha” means “suicide” while “beizisha” means “be officially presumed to have committed suicide”, and xiaokang means “fairly comfortable life” while “beixiaokang” means “be said to be living a fairly comfortable life”.

Wu Zhongmin, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, saw the phenomenon of word creation as a natural response of young people to social issues. “Cyber language is more vivid and it shortens people’s distances,” he said.

1.The passage mainly tells us that________.

A．cyber language is popular among all people

B．cyber language is of great fun

C．cyber language needs to be taught at coolege

D．cyber language in China is popular for it’s relation with society

2.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Ungeilivable means “dull, not cool at all”.

B．Antizens live in small rented apartments with small salaries.

C．Suan Ni Hen refers to the highest food prices ever.

D．Beixiaokang means “be said” to be living a comfortable life.

3.What can we infer from the phenomenon of word creation?

A．It’s getting more difficult to understand cyber language.

B．Young people are more likely to respond to nature.

C．Social phenomena are more easily reflected in cyber language.

D．The best way to create new cyber words is to combine Chinese and English.

4.Chinese netizens created English words by________.

A．combining pinyin of Chinese characters with the English suffix

B．using the character carrying the same pronunciaton

C．combining Chinese characters with the English

D．putting the character “bei” before an English word

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A person _______ a foreign language must be able to use the foreign language　_______ all about his own.

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