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Ⅲ. Read the passage and fill in the blanks.
The Flying Hat
By Shannon Blackman
“The most sidesplitting story I’ve ever read. I couldn’t help laughing after I finished it. Be ready to laugh your heart out.”
— Willy King, Best Book winner
“It’s a story that makes you smile in your dreams. Blackman’s excellent writing cheers you up.”
— The Tide, London
“One of the best - selling books of the year. More than two million copies have been sold.”
— The Sunday Reader, New York
“This book has become the talk of the country. The story is making its way into movie theatres. I can’t wait to see it!”
— Marian Miller, author of Ms. Lily
1. The writer of The Flying Hat is Shannon Blackman.
2. Willy King thinks The Flying Hat can make people laugh.
3. The Flying Hat has been sold two million copies.
4. The book The Flying Hat has become the talk of the country.

答案： 1. Shannon Blackman 2. laugh 3. copies 4. talk

Ⅳ. Read the passage and answer the questions.
“Reading makes a full man” (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things.
Jane Austen (简·奥斯丁) is one of the most well - known women writers in the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice, written in 1813, was the most popular.
Victor Hugo (维克多·雨果), born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the 19th century. Talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, The Hunchback of Notre - Dame, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe.
Ernest Hemingway (欧内斯特·海明威), an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
1. When was Jane Austen born?
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In 1775.
2. Where was Victor Hugo from?
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France.
3. When was The Hunchback of Notre - Dame written?
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In 1831.
4. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
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Jane Austen.
5. For which novel did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize?
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The Old Man and the Sea.

答案： 1. In 1775. 2. France. 3. In 1831. 4. Jane Austen. 5. The Old Man and the Sea.