In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold fell on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet (彗星) shot across the sky, exciting much prediction of a snow storm. Outside the city wall, a woman was announced dead of a disease that was spreading in that area. Her house was locked up and the phrase “Lord Have Mercy On Us” was painted on the door in red.
By the following Christmas, the virus that had killed the woman would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London — almost a third of those who did not flee.
In The Great Plague (瘟疫), historian A. Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C. Moote provide a deeply informed account of this plague year. Reading the book, readers are taken from the palaces of the city’s wealthiest citizens to the poor areas where the vast majority of Londoners were living, and to the surrounding countryside with those who fled. The Mootes point out that, even at the height of the plague, the city did not fall into chaos. Doctors, nurses and the church staff remained in the city to care for the sick; city officials tried their best to fight the crisis with all the legal tools; and commerce continued even as businesses shut down.
To describe life and death in and around London, the authors focus on the experiences of nine individuals. Through their letters and diaries, the Mootes offer fresh descriptions of key issues in the history of the Great Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, religious, and government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources supporting those who remained. Based on humanity (人性), the authors offer a masterful portrait of a city and its inhabitants attacked by — and daringly resisting — unimaginable horror.
【小题1】What can we learn from Paragraph 1?| A．A comet always follows a storm. |
| B．London was under an approaching threat. |
| C．London was prepared for the disease. |
| D．The woman was the beginning of the disease. |
| A．The city remained organized. |
| B．The plague spared the rich areas. |
| C．The people tried a lot in vain. |
| D．The majority fled and thus survived. |
| A．They were famous people in history. |
| B．They all managed to survive the Plague. |
| C．They provided vivid stories of humanity. |
| D．They united by thinking and acting as one. |
| A．To introduce a new book. |
| B．To correct a misunderstanding. |
| C．To report a new research. |
| D．To show respect to the authors. |
Former National Football League player and children’s author Tim Green has added another book to his list of accomplishments: Unstoppable. The book tells the story of a 12 year-old boy named Harrison, who survives life in a cruel lobster-home（寄养家庭）before he finally finds a loving family. Then he settles in and realizes his natural football ability but he loses his leg due to a deadly bone cancer. Unstoppable follows Harrison’s difficult life journey.
Tim Green said he decided to write a novel about a kid facing cancer after watching how his wife fought to survive her own illness. “Her mental and physical toughness were more heroic to me than anything I’d ever seen in the national sports leagues,” Green told TFK.
Green said, he knew he needed to write about a person who struggled through a serious illness. But because the target age for his books is the teen, he needed to tell the story through the eyes of someone of that age. He needed a perfect real story on which to base his book.
When friends introduced Green to Jeffrey Keith, Green knew he had found the right person to help him “capture（捕捉）the heroism that it takes to fight cancer”, Cancer- survivor Jeffrey Keith lost his leg at the age of twelve, but went on to be the goalkeeper and was also the first amputee（被截肢者）to run 3,300 miles across the country.
TFK asked Keith what it felt like to read Unstoppable for the first time. “Tim captured what it felt like for me to go through this experience and battle back, “Keith said.” Tim’s look sends a message to all the kids across the country that are facing challenges and that have nothing to do with cancer; you are all unstoppable, as long as you believe it.”
【小题1】What does paragraph I mainly intend to say about Harrisons life？| A．It is poor but colorful. | B．It is full of challenges. |
| C．It is filled with chances. | D．It is peaceful but boring. |
| A．He was impressed by Harrison’s encouraging life. |
| B．He intended to make Jeffrey Keith’s story well known. |
| C．He was inspired by his wife’s struggle with her illness. |
| D．He wished to encourage adults to light against illness bravely. |
| A．It is based on his life experiences. |
| B．It is written by him and Tim Green. |
| C．He offered great advice to its author. |
| D．He has introduced it to many people. |
| A．Worried. | B．Cautious. |
| C．Uncertain. | D．Favorable. |
·Tuesday’s Story
A Book of Rhyme for Children and Pet Lovers
Becky Hohnstein
www.xlibris.com
Hardback| Paperback| E-book
$22.99 |$14.99 | $3.99
This children’s and pet lovers’ book uses photographs to tell the story of a remarkable, well loved bichon dog, through babyhood, then as a fun energetic dog and then an aging dog. Rhyme makes the story fun to be read and read to.
·Emma Embury: Poet of the Heart
Charles Russel
www.xlibris.com
Hardback| Paperback| E-book
$31.99 |$17.99 | $3.99
Emma Embury was a brilliant early 19th Century American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her life story, along with her poems, and selections from her essays and novels, makes delightful reading.
·Family Guide to Celebration of the Jewish Holidays
Leonard Chesler
www.juniverse.com
Paperback| E-book
$14.95| $3.99
Written as a family guide, emphasis is placed on purpose, meaning, value, joy, and inspiration for each holiday and our daily lives.
·Just Arrived- A Different World
Bona Udeze
www.iuniverse.com
Paperback| E-book
$20.99| $3.99
Emeka has just arrived in America and must now face culture shock while many other Africans tolerate the same fate, fighting for survival in a strange new world.
·Trials of a Dead Lawyer’s wife
Maggie Redmon
www.xlibris.com
Hardback| Paperback| E-book
$31.99| $17.99| $3.99
It is based on a true story. After her husband Scott changed his will just hours before he died and half a million dollars would be given away to his girlfriend, Maggie started to search for truth and justice.
【小题1】Which author’s book would you choose for a person adopting a dog?| A．Charles Russell. | B．Becky Hohnstein, |
| C．Maggie Redmon. | D．Leonard Chesler. |
| A．Tuesday’s Story. |
| B．Emma Embury: Poet of the Heart. |
| C．Family Guide to Celebration of the Jewish Holidays. |
| D．Just Arrived-A Different World. |
| A．Tuesday’s Story is about the story of a dog owner. |
| B．Emma Embury’s works include different types. |
| C．Leonard Chesler’s book emphasizes some scenic spots. |
| D．Scott changed his will to punish Maggie’s dishonesty. |
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work.
Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city.
Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities.
The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won’t have fun.
But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time--and if you become as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t have suffered during the process.
【小题1】What’s the benefits of reading?| A．Delighted | B．bored | C．dull | D．excited |
| A．singing | B．drawing | C．exercise | D．study |
| A．Pleasure of reading |
| B．The books that we should chose |
| C．The benefits of reading |
| D．Leading is fun |
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