1 . Fait Diver: More Than Brief Stories

Every day, there are items in the news believed too minor to report at length. For these _________ stories, French newspapers of old had a solution: a section called fait divers: stories of a paragraph or a few   lines. These brief   stories were   typically   of some_________ or odd   occurrence: train accidents, lovers' quarrels, drownings, suicides. The fait divers remained a practical form, intended to convey a   story without _________ too much space, but it also developed into an art. In   French literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture and influenced the writing of _________ as varied as Stendha（司汤达）, Flauber（福楼拜）,     and Camus（加缪）, sometimes as the_________ inspiration for what later became a novel. _________ a version of it was present in American newspapers, it never quite caught on in the English press as a literary form.

Perhaps the finest flowering of fait divers was in the reports filed by the art critic Felix Feneon 1906. He gave the   form more wit, more emotional _________ and formal perfection, than it     had had before. In his hands, it became ironic, dark, and very funny. His collected fait divers, published in English as Novels in Three Lines, was a(n) _________ to me. It inspired me to undertake _________ projects. One was a sequence of fait divers set in contemporary Nigeria and__________ from   the newspapers there. The other was based on stories from New York City's newspapers in 1912: the New-York Tribune, the New York Herald, the New York Times. I called my projects small fates."   an   acknowledgment   that   so   many   of   these   stories   are __________ about   the   strange   workings of chance.

One   can go days in New York   without really thinking about how __________ these   streets once were by crowds of people, all of whom are now dead. I found in writing the small fates that these long-gone New Yorkers suddenly came back to the__________ tense when you are not even ready for   it. The fine   details made   their lives vivid and __________. They were no longer__________, and at times seemed even more real to me than the latter-day outside my window.

1.

A．curious

B．tiny

C．ridiculous

D．detailed

2.

A．tragedy

B．coincidence

C．imagination

D．thriller

3.

A．turning up

B．putting up

C．showing up

D．taking up

4.

A．images

B．imagination

C．figures

D．portraits

5.

A．motivative

B．sudden

C．original

D．weak

6.

A．Though

B．When

C．Since

D．Before

7.

A．expression

B．peace

C．health

D．discomfort

8.

A．identification

B．secret

C．appeal

D．approach

9.

A．a series of

B．a pair of

C．a collection of

D．a set of

10.

A．received

B．inspired

C．eliminated

D．drawn

11.

A．finally

B．accidentally

C．previously

D．unexpectedly

12.

A．fascinating

B．populated

C．brilliant

D．sophisticated

13.

A．previous

B．future

C．present

D．past

14.

A．believable

B．considerable

C．understandable

D．approachable

15.

A．deadly

B．lonely

C．lively

D．ghostly

2 . The below-mentioned books are first-rate bestsellers and would be perfect additions to your reading list.

	Maybe the power of one's belief isn't the ultimate example of intelligence. Maybe, in a constantly changing world, the ability to make judgements and change one's mind accordingly is much more important. That's Adam Grant's theory, and Think Again is here to help you to look at the world around you, check your assumptions, and—you guessed it—think again. —Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor
	This book reads like fiction but tells the true story of murder and greed that troubled the Osage Nation in Oklahoma in the 1920s. When oil was discovered on their land, the Osage people became the wealthiest in the world and the targets (particularly the women) for the white men who had their sights set on marrying and murdering into their riches. I suggest you treat yourself to this exceptional read right now. —Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor
	The subject of Isaacson’s book is Jennifer Doudna, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work developing CRISPR. CRISPR is the innovation that will open the door to gene control, driving the life sciences revolution for decades to come. But it will also open the door to moral problem as we ask ourselves. How far should we go in editing humans—especially before birth—and who should control those decisions? —Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor
	While the book unfolds during the course of a single day, flashbacks to when a group of kids were crowding around a desk and to when their rock star father abandoned them time and again reveal the complex dynamics still in force in their adulthood. After I finish this book, I would dream of these characters and their restaurant by the sea. Malibu Rising is a fun, unforgettable read. —Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor

1. Which book will you choose if you are interested in history?

A．The Code Breaker	B．Think Again
C．Killers of the Flower Moon	D．Malibu Rising

2. What do we know about the book The Code Breaker?

A．It solves the problem of gene control.

B．It is a Science Fiction and Fantasy novel.

C．It focuses on the 2020 Nobel Prize winners.

D．It covers Jennifer Doudna and her achievements.

3. What do we learn from the introduction of the book Malibu Rising?

A．The kids had high expectations of their father.

B．The kids ran away from their father frequently.

C．The kids' father destroyed their dream of being rock stars.

D．The kids' childhood experiences affected their adult life.