New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Price: ￡28.00
Publication Date: 30/11/2006
Publisher’s description:
Collect Doyle’s fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century book editions, in a set plemented by four novels, editor biographies of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society.
Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind
Price: ￡16.00
Publication Date:11/10/2006
Brief description:
This is a book about the adventure life that can offer each of us if we seize it, and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope. For Daniel Libeskind, life’s adventure has been through architecture, which he has found has the power to reshape human experience. Although often relating to the past, his buildings are about the future. This biology of one man’s journey brings together history, personal experience, our physical environment and a fresh international vision.
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
Price: ￡16.00
Publication Date:02/09/2006
Brief description:
On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the world Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe---in her school at the foot of the burning towers---he returned home, to mediate(反省) on the trauma(创伤), and to work on a ic strip(连环漫画). In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman’s extraordinary account of “the hijacking(劫机) on 9.11 and the following hijacking of those events” by America.
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Price: ￡14.00
Publication Date:07/10/2006
Publisher’s description:
This is the 11th novel by Anita Shreve, the critically accepted bestseller. A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Price: ￡20.99
Publication Date:11/08/2006
Brief description:
Camping in the garden, riding bikes through the woods, climbing trees, picking wildflowers, running through piles of autumn leaves… these are the things childhood memories are made of. But for a whole generation of today’s children the pleasures of a free-range childhood are missing, and their indoor habits contribute to obesity, attention disorder and childhood depression. This book shows how our children have bee increasingly distanced from nature, why this matters and how we can make a difference. Richard Louv is chairman of the Children and Nature Network and co-chair of the National Forum on Children and Nature. He is the author of seven other books and has written for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times and the Washington Post.
【小题1】Who is the writer of the latest book published among the four books?【小题2】If one wants to know something about Victorian society, he or she may read .【小题3】Which of the following refers to tragedies?【小题4】Which book is based on a real big event?【小题5】Who has also written for newspapers and magazines according to the text?
A. Arthur Conan Doyle.
B. Daniel Libeskind
C. Art Spiegelman
D. Richard Louv
网友回答
A. Arthur Conan Doyle.
B. Daniel Libeskind
C. Art Spiegelman
D. Richard Louv
解析：本文是几本书的广告，介绍了作者，出版日期，价格方面的信息和书的梗概。
【小题1】细节题:从对比出版日期和第一则广告的句子：New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoylePublication Date: 30/11/2006可知最近出版书的作家是Arthur Conan Doyle选A。
【小题2】细节题：从第一则广告的句子：Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society.可知想知道维多利亚社会的人应该读New Annotated Sherlock Holmes，选D
【小题3】细节题：从第二则广告的句子：about the powerful forces of tragedy, 和第四则广告的句子：A moving story of love and courage and tragedy 可知选A
【小题4】细节题：从第三则广告的句子：In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman’s extraordinary account of “the hijacking(劫机) on 9.11 and the following hijacking of those events” by America.可知这本书是以真实的故事为基础的，答案是B
【小题5】细节题：从最后一则广告的句子：He is the author of seven other books and has written for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times and the Washington Post.可知Richard Louv也为报纸和杂志写文章。选D。