The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Amazon Best Books of 2015: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #5
Amazon Best Books of 2015: Top 100 Editors’ Picks #16
Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of 2015: Fiction #1
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 #6
Library Journal Best Books 2015: The Top Ten #1
2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Winner
Book Description
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping（扣人心弦的） spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
Viet Thanh Nguyen Award Statistics
Major Prize Nominations(提名) 3
Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize 1
Pulitzer Prize Wins 1(The Sympathizer)
PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0
PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 1 (The Sympathizer)
1.In what kind of honor was the book ranked highest?
A. Amazon Best Books of 2015: Top 10 Literature & Fiction
B. Amazon Best Books of 2015: Top 100 Editors’ Picks
C. New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015
D. Library Journal Best Books 2015: The Top Ten
2.Who does “a man of two minds” in the text refer to ?
A. The captain mentioned.
B. The general mentioned.
C. Viet Thanh Nguyen.
D. The captain’s mother.
3.What can be learned about the book The Sympathizer?
A. It belongs to a science fiction.
B. It is set in the Vietnam War.
C. It is no more than a loving story.
D. It won PEN/Faulkner Award once.
假如你是李华，收到澳大利亚表弟(Harry)的电子邮件，邮件中提到他父母想看他的微信朋友圈(We Chat Moments)，他对是否同意和父母分享微信感到犹豫。
请你给他回信，要点如下：1．说明赞成或反对的观点；2．主要理由；3．提出个人的建议。
注意：词数100左右；可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Harry,．
How surprised and pleased to receive your email today! You told me that ______
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Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Volunteer travel, that is familiar to foreigners, has nowadays become more and more popular in China. Young travelers volunteer to work for youth hostels so that they can eat and live there for something. At the same time, they can enjoy the local scenery on their spare time.
As far as I am concern, volunteer travel has some advantages and benefits from you a lot. It can save you lot of money by providing free accommodations, which makes it possible for you to travel to much more places and experience different cultures. Meanwhile, volunteer travel enrich your life by offer different jobs in youth hostels, which also can change your way of life. All in all, it was meaningful.
Clever student as Dongfang Liang is. He was badly addicted 1. online games a year ago. He often slipped to cybercafes at night, 2. (feel) very sleepy in class in the daytime. 3. (need) to say, he got poor marks in all subjects. No matter what I advised, no matter 4. I punished him, he still broke the rule. Later I 5. (arrange) his parents to rent a small house near our school to keep him company, or exactly speaking, to supervise him. But only a week later, I noticed him fall asleep constantly again. He must have played other tricks secretly. This time I demanded that his father 6. (sleep) with him in the same bedroom and watch him 7. (close). Following my advice, his father did 8. .Hardly has Dongfang Liang felt sleepy in class ever since, and he has made great progress in study.
Last week, believe it 9. not, he sheepishly(难为情地) admitted having read some e-books under his quilt while he was lying 10. bed before his father slept in his room. It is online games that poison our teenagers' minds deeply.
Across the street from where we live, there stands a big hospital. To earn some money, we rented the rooms upstairs to patients. One evening, there was a(n) ________ at the door. I opened it and saw a short old man who was hardly ________ than my eight-year-old son. But the worst thing was his face—it was ________ ugly. He told me he'd been ________ a room since that noon but no one seemed to have one. For a moment I hesitated, not ________ to rent him a room, but his next words convinced me. He said,“I could ________ on this chair. My bus leaves early in the morning." I told him we would find him a ________.
It wasn't a long time before I found that this old man had a ________ heart in that tiny body. He fished for a living to ________ his daughter, his daughter's children, and her disabled husband. He didn't tell it by way of complaint. Instead, he was ________ that no pain was caused by his disease and that he still had strength to keep going. At ________, we put a camp cot(吊床) in my children's room for him. ________ he left the next morning, he asked, “Could I please come back and ________ when I see the doctor next time? Grown-ups are bothered by my ________, but children don't seem to ________. ”I told him he was welcome to come again.
On his next trip, he brought a big fish and a bag of the largest oysters（牡蛎）I had ever seen. Other times we received ________ in the mail. There were oysters, fish or some fresh vegetables. ________ how little money he had and that he must walk three miles to ________ these made these gifts much more precious. And from him we ________ what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good ________ gratitude.
1.A. bellB. answerC. knockD. call
2.A. tallerB. healthierC. betterD. stronger
3.A. hardlyB. usuallyC. reallyD. finally
4.A. searchingB. looking at
C. hunting forD. checking in
5.A. knowingB. refusingC. fearingD. wanting
6.A. waitB. sitC. hideD. sleep
7.A. bedB. seat
C. tableD. living room
8.A. funnyB. beautifulC. smallD. normal
9.A. pleaseB. surpriseC. supportD. exchange
10.A. interestedB. scaredC. gratefulD. worried
11.A. midnightB. suppertimeC. bedtimeD. noon
12.A. ifB. onceC. beforeD. after
13.A. visitB. stayC. payD. chat
14.A. actionB. voiceC. faceD. manner
15.A. noticeB. requireC. mindD. escape
16.A. cardB. lettersC. greetingsD. packages
17.A. BelievingB. KnowingC. DoubtingD. Telling
18.A. mailB. getC. findD. make
19.A. rememberedB. explainedC. learnedD. showed
20.A. forB. withC. inD. under
Why do many people take vacations frequently? We need to take time out from work to relax, and just be ourselves. 1. We should all be allowed to leave our jobs behind us—at least for a few weeks each year—and just have fun. This might be something as simple as reading a good book in front of a warm fireplace through to traveling to the most interesting places on our planet. Whatever we fancy doing is worth taking time out for.
As we know, workplace stress is on the rise. 2. These include disease, depression and even death. We all seem to be running from one place to the next, never finding out where we want to go in the first place. I intend to break that trend in the coming days. 3. I will sleep late, write, watch movies, drink the occasional glass of wine, and eat to my heart's content, ignoring calorie counting. My plan is to just enjoy the fleeting(飞逝的) moments of being alive. 4. Spend your next vacation the way you want; Do what will restore your mental health. You're very valuable to the people who are close to you, and to those who depend on it. Like it or not, we are all interdependent（互相依存的）in this great life of ours. There's no doubt that you are valuable. Just remember that the next time you look at a mirror and take a deep breath. Remind yourself that there will never be anyone like you ever on this earth again. 5. 1you have to do is just ask yourself what you want to do.
A. Draw up a detailed plan so that you can see more.
B. With it come many health problems.
C. When you finally get home you'll be greatly refreshed.
D. Life is not all about work, or at least it shouldn't be.
E. And only you know how to take a vacation in your way.
F. I challenge each one of you to do the same.
G. For my next holiday, I will do all the things that I love doing.
