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New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: ￡28. 00

Publication Date: 30/11/2006

Publisher’s description

Collects 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 complemented 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 introduction

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 memoir（自传）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 introduction

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 meditate（反省）on the trauma（创伤）, and to work on a comic strip（连环漫画）. In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman’s extraordinary account of “the hijacking 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.

1.Who is the writer of the book latest published among the four books?

A. Arthur Conan Doyle.    B. Daniel Libeskind.

C. Art Spiegelman.    D. Anita Shreve.

2.If one would like to know something about the descriptions of the hijacking on 11th September,2001 , he or she may read ______.

A. Light on Snow    B. In the Shadow of No Towers

C. Breaking Ground    D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

3.Of the four books listed above, there are two referring to tragedies. They are ___.

A. Light on Snow & Breaking Ground

B. In the Shadow of No Towers & Breaking Ground

C. Light on Snow & In the Shadow of No Towers

D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes & In the Shadow of No Towers

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.A

【解析】本文主要介绍了4本书，书名，书的价格，出版日期，以及简介。

1.细节推断题。四本书的出版日期都是2006年，New Annotated Sherlock Holmes的日期是11月30 日，Breaking Ground是10月11日，In the Shadow of No Towers是9月2日，Light on Snow是10月7日，所以最新的出版的肯定是New Annotated Sherlock Holmes，作者是Arthur Conan Doyle.故答案为A。

2.细节理解题。根据第三本书的简介提到的On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead.也就是2001年的911事件，和题干描述的吻合，故选B。

3.细节推断题。第二本书Breaking Ground中可找到这样一句：and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope.此句中有关键词，tragedy；最后一本书Light on Snow中的简介A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and……，此句中有关键词tragedy；所以这两本书都提到了悲剧，故选A。

【名师点睛】

细节理解题主要的答题策略有：

（1）细心审题，直接就题找答案。解答此类试题时，不必通篇细看原文，而应采取“带着问题找答案”的方法，先从问题中抓住关键性词语（题眼），然后以此为线索，运用略读及查读的技巧快速在文章中寻找与此问题相关的：段落、语句，仔细品味，对照比较，确定答案。

（2）变通理解，间接转述找答案。细节理解题通常采用词语和句型转换的形式来取代原文中的表述，命题者在出这类题时惯用“偷梁换柱、张冠李戴”的手法来迷惑考生，即对原句细微处做改动，截取原文词语或结构进行改造，因果倒置，把A的观点说成B的观点等。所以正确理解题干和信息句的意义是关键。

（3）多点归纳，综合事实找答案。细节理解题有时考查的并不是单一的信息，而是多处信息的整合。解答此类“综合”信息细节题时，一定要全面捕捉相关信息，进行综合分析、归纳，切忌根据“一面之词”草率地作出结论。

比如，第一题就可以采用第3种方法：多点归纳，综合事实找答案。要通读全文，找到每本书的出版日期：New Annotated Sherlock Holmes的日期是11月30 日，Breaking Ground是10月11日，In the Shadow of No Towers是9月2日，Light on Snow是10月7日，然后进行对比，发现最新的就是离现在最近的日期，那么只有2006年11月30 日的这本书，答案就很明显了。还需注意的是本题很容易错，有的学生可能不假思索就选9月2日那个日期，所以一定要审题仔细。