课时作业（四）Unit 2 Section I Starting out &

课时作业（四）Unit 2 Section I Starting out Understanding ideas i .阅读理解 A My Favourite Books Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co-author of the This Book Will series （系歹U） of lifestyle books.Here she picks her top reads. Matilda Roald Dahl I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahls writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful worlds.Matildas battles with her cruel parents and the bossy headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, are equally funny and frightening, but they*re also aspirational. After Dark Haruki Murakami Its about two sistersEri, a model who either wont or cant stop sleeping, and Mari, a young student.In trying to connect to her sister, Mari starts changing her life and discovers a world of diverse “ night people who are hidingsecrets. Gone Girl Gillian Flynn There was a bit of me that didnt want to love this when everyone else on the planet did, but the horror story is brilliant.Theres tension and anxiety from the beginning as Nick and Amy battle for your trust.Its a real whodunit and the frustration when you realise whats going on is horribly enjoyable. The Stand Stephen King This is an excellent fantasy novel from one of the best storytellers around.After a serious flu outbreak wipes out 99.4 of the worlds population, a battle unfolds between good and evil among those left.Randall Flagg is one of the scariest characters ever. 1. Who does I refer to in the text A. Stephen King. B. Gillian Flynn. C. Jo Usmar. D. Roald Dahl. 2. Which of the following tells about Mari and Eri A. Cosmopolitan. B. Matilda. C. After Dark. D. The Stand. 3. What kind of book is Gone Girl A. A folk tale. B. A biography. C. A love story. D. A horror story. B It is often said that Western Europeans speak English. From traveling all through Europe, I know that this is not entirely true. Some regions of Europe have a 90 of English speaking rate, while in other parts, English is generally a tongue which is impossible to understand. The divide, it seems, lies with the Romance languages. In Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the rest of the Western European non-Romance language speaking regions, English seems to be understood and spoken just like the peoples first tongue. In Iceland, I have never experienced English was spoken so well and so widely by a non-native speaking country. And I have almost never met a Dutch person who did not speak English almost as well as my countrymen. But when you move to the south of Western Europe a little, something happens. English becomes a less useful language for traveling. You just cross over the Romance language barrier （障碍）and into Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, where English is spoken at a rate that does not seem to be much higher than in China, Latin America, or Southeast Asia. Traveling through Europe and working in hotels around the world that are popular with Europeans have given me a deeper view of