The Way Home Looks Now
• Author: Wendy Wan-Long Shang
• Number of pages: 272
• Price: $17
• The basic story line: After Peter’s older brother, 16- year-old Nelson, dies in a car accident, all the joy disappears from Peter's family. In order to help his family recover, Peter decides to join a baseball team. Can the game his family love bring them back together?
The Water and the Wild
• Author: K. E. Ormsbee
• Number of pages: 448
• Price: $19
• The basic story line: Lottie, a young girl, has received gifts from a mysterious(神秘的) source every year for her birthday. When she wishes for medicine for her sick friend Eliot, she is taken through an apple tree to a world of sprites (精灵). On her way to find the medicine, she comes across lots of difficulties in that world.
Gone Crazy in Alabama
• Author, Rita Williams-Garcia
• Number of pages: 304
• Price: $14
• The basic story line: Three young sisters, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, travel from their home in New York to a small village in Alabama. They plan to spend the summer holiday with their grandmother, Ma Charles. Across the river lives Ma Charlese’s sister. Miss Trotter, The two haven’t spoken to each other for years. What is keeping the sisters apart? Three girls decide to help.
Raising Rufus
• Author: David Fulk
• Number of pages: 272
• Price: $21
• The basic story line: One day, 12-year-old Martin Tinker picks up a strange-shaped rock. Some days later, Martin finds the rock is actually an egg when it hatches into a baby dinosaur (恐龙)! Martin names him Rufus. Rufus grows fast. Can Martin hide his beloved Rufus from the outside world and find him a happy home?
【小题1】How many books can one buy at most with only forty dollars?

A．One.	B．Two.
C．Three.	D．Four.

【小题2】What is the similarity between the four books?

A．They are all about real stories.

B．They are about the same topic.

C．Their main characters are all kids.

D．They art all popular among the young.

【小题3】Which of the following about the characters of the books is NOT true?

A．Martin loves Rufus very much

B．Lottie has much difficulty in getting the medicine.

C．Peter's older brother Nelson loved playing baseball

D．The sisters come to Alabama in order to help Ma Charles and her sister.

Like any college student, Connor Cox was excited when he received a package from home. He assumed it was filled with food and other goodies. He tore open the box and, indeed, found a surprise inside: garbage. It turned out that he’d left home without taking out the trash as he’d promised his mother, so she mailed it to him. —Source: buzzfeed.com
A Florida man drove his 24-year-old daughter to a job interview. When she came back to the car with a large amount of cash, he figured she’d gotten the job and this was her advance (预付钱). Not quite. Unbeknown to the man, he had become his daughter’s getaway driver in her fifth—and final—bank robbery.—Source: Sun Sentinel
An American French with his child made a trip to have the car washed. After he got home in Massachusetts, the six-year-old called 911 to report a crime. The perpetrator (犯罪者) was his father. The criminal act? Dad ran a red light. Even though he was brought to light by his own kid, the father talked his way out of a ticket.—Source: CBS Boston
A grandfather labeled his three-month-old grandson a terrorist. A question on the visa waiver (放弃) to get into America asks Britons if they’ve ever engaged in “robbery, murder, terrorism.” In filling out the form for his grandson, Paul Kenyon carelessly checked yes. After explaining the mess to the American embassy, some Kenyon family members missed their flight to Orlando because they had to wait for the baby’s visa to arrive in the mail.—Source: Guardian
【小题1】What did Connor Cox find when he opened the package?

A．Waste things.	B．Food and sweets,
C．A wooden box.	D．Winter clothes.

【小题2】What does the underlined part in Paragraph Three probably mean?

A．The father got a ticket.	B．The father lost his way.
C．The father didn’t get fined.	D．The father talked a lot with his son.

【小题3】Why did Kenyon family members miss their flight?

A．Because they had to wait for the baby’s visa.

B．Because they failed to take visas with them.

C．Because the flight was controlled by terrorists.

D．Because they wanted to change other flights.

【小题4】What do the four stories have in common?

A．They all happened in America.

B．They all came from the internet.

C．They were all surprising and interesting.

D．They all happened between parents and children.

Whore is the best way to sell and popularize a range of toilet paper? A company from Japan has a good idea-they’ve printed a short story on the paper!
The story is called Drop, and if s set in a public toilet “The story is on about one meter of toilet paper and can be read in a few minutes.” said company executive Niko Shimatani of Hayashi Paper, a Japanese paper company.
The author behind the story is Koji Suzuki. Many people refer to him as the Japanese Stephen King. He has written books about fatherhood and has even translated children’s books. Before Drop, he wrote a novel called Ring in 199 L The novel was made into a feature film of the same name and was very popular in Japan and in Hollywood.
So, what’s the short story on the toilet rolls about? It’s a horror story based on a Japanese superstition. In many old Japanese houses, the toilets were often at the back of the house, m a dark corner. There was a myth that a ghost lived in the toilet bowl. Very often, parents told their children that a big hand would pull them into the dark toilet bowl if they were naughty. As a result, many children grew up frightened of “the ghosts in the toilets”.
One day, Drop may be made into a film. But will we have to watch it in the toilet?
【小题1】Why did the company print a story on the toilet paper?

A．To attract buyers.	B．To frighten children.
C．To spread superstition.	D．To amuse people.

【小题2】According to Paragraph Three, what is right about Koji Suzuki?

A．He has written many children’s books.

B．He is highly thought of in Japan.

C．His novel Ring was made into a film in 1991.

D．His story Drop was written before Ring.

【小题3】The passage is mainly about       .

A．a well-known Japanese writer.

B．excellent works of a Japanese writer.

C．a Japanese horror story about toilets.

D．a clever way to advertise for toilet paper.