Her Fearful Symmetry
By Audrey Niffenegger
RRP $ 12.48(original price) $11.23(special price)—Save $ 1.25
Free delivery worldwide
Add to basket… Save item
Julia and Valentine Poole are normal American teenagers. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn’t know has died and left them her flat in London.
Published: 05 July 2010
Format: Paperback 496 pages
Sales rank: 114
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
RRP $ 12.48(original price) $9.13(special price)—Save $3.35
Free delivery worldwide
Add to basket… Save item
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the people of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
Published: 01January 2008
Format: paperback 560 pages
Sales rank: 188,505
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
By John Boyne
RRP $12.48(original price) $11.39(special price)—Save $1.09
Free delivery worldwide
Add to basket... Save item
The book tells the story of a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. And sooner or later the reader arrives with Bruno at a “fence”, which is not meant to be crossed.
Published: 11 September 2008
Format: paperback 224 pages
Sales rank: 113
The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
RRP $12.48(original price) $ 11.23(special price)—Save $1.25
Free delivery worldwide
Add to basket… Save item
It’s Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. No one would believe they’d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in search of truth.
Published: 13 May 2010
Format: Paperback 464 pages
Sales rank: 16
1.Which book mentioned above sells best?
A. Her Fearful Symmetry B. The Book Thief
C. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas D. The Help
2.What do the books mentioned above have in common?
A. They were all published in the same year.
B. They are delivered worldwide for free.
C. They are all written by famous writers.
D. They are all best-sellers at the moment.
3.Which book mentioned above is sold at the least discount?
A. Her Fearful Symmetry B. The Book Thief
C. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas D. The Help
It was another frustrating day. I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work. I worked at a local restaurant in town.
I went to work feeling down. It’s the same thing over and over again, dealing with customers who complain about their food—how the piece of pie that they are served is too big or too small. Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows. I was working since 5:00 pm. and we were quite busy. But these elderly women were watching me as I was working really hard to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers.
When they were finished with their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen. They talked to me for a while about school, how I was doing, which grade I was in and what I planned to do in the future.
As they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a confident and gentle voice, “You are going places.” They left the restaurant and I was pretty much in awe. I had tears in my eyes, because they gave me a reason to believe in myself. They picked my spirits up from being down and out and gave me a reason to keep on working hard and to give it my all.
1.From the passage we learn that the author ____.
A. had a part-time job B. worked in the restaurant all day
C. loved his job at first D. did very well in his lessons
2.The underlined sentence “You are going places” in the fifth paragraph probably means ____.
A. you are on a trip B. you should go to a better place
C. you’ll be successful D. you are in the right place
3.The author felt sad because ____.
A. he didn’t want to work there
B. it was difficult to make the customers happy
C. he had to do the same thing again and again
D. the work was too hard for a teenager
4.The passage tells us that ____.
A. encouragement can be important for your success
B. everyone should treat elder people gently
C. people doing all kinds of jobs should be respected
D. students should make money to support themselves
I’ll try my best to _____ the lost time.
A. make out B. make up of
C. make up D. make up for
（题文）To those_______ in martial arts(武术), the period from 1972 to 1975 is often said_______ the Bruce Lee era.
A. involving; being B. to involve; to be
C. involved; to be D. involve; being
The sick woman ____in bed ____to the doctor that she had already taken the pill ____ on the table by the nurse a moment ago .
A. laying; lay; lay B. lying; lie; lie
C. lying; lied; laid D. lay; lying; lay
（题文）The tiger, once a ____ animal to humans, is now ____ of disappearing on the earth.
A. dangerous, danger B. dangerous, in danger
C. in danger, in danger D. danger, in danger
