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The best books of the year

Fiction | Simon &Schuster $26.	Asymmetry By Lisa Halliday The first section, "Folly," is the story of a love affair between a book editor and an elderly novelist. The second section, "Madness" describes an Iraqi-American economist who is being held up at Heathrow airport. In "Asymmetry," two seemingly unrelated sections are connected by a shocking finale.
Fiction | Viking. $27.	The Great Believers By Rebecca Makkai Set in the Chicago of the mid-80s and Paris at the time of the 2015 terrorist attacks, Makkai's deeply affecting novel uses the AIDS epidemic and a mother's search for her distant daughter to explore the effects of senseless loss and our efforts to overcome it.
Nonfiction | Random House $28.	Educated By Tara Westover Westover's extraordinary memoir (回忆录)is an act of courage and self-invention. The youngest of seven children, she grew up in Idaho, in a survivalist family lacking even a birth certificate (证明) and did not attend school until she went to college. The reward for her efforts Is a book that shows to a great thirst to learn.
Nonfiction | Simon & Schuster $37.50.	Frederick Douglass By David W. Blight Douglass wrote three autobiographies (自传）himself, describing his rise from slavery to a role as one of the greatest figures of the 19th century, but Blight's work is fuller than any of those, relating both the public and private life in a way that Douglass either could not or would not undertake.

1.Which of the following books are published by the same publishing house?

A. Asymmetry & The Great Believers.    B. The Great Believers & Educated.

C. Educated & Frederick Douglass.    D. Asynimetry & Frederick Douglass.

2.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. There is no connection between the two sections in "Asymmetry".

B. "The Great Believers" is set in a poor family in Idaho.

C. Westover didn't attend a single day of school before going to the college.

D. Blight wrote three autobiographies about both the public and private life.

Answer

1. D

2. C

【解析】

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1.细节理解题。答案定位在Asymmetry部分Fiction | Simon &Schuster $26.和Frederick Douglass部分Nonfiction | Simon & Schuster $37.50.可知Asynimetry 和 Frederick Douglass.是同一家出版社出版的，故选D。

2.细节理解题。答案定位在Educated部分The youngest of seven children, she grew up in Idaho, in a survivalist family lacking even a birth certificate (证明) and did not attend school until she went to college.可知Westover在上大学之前没有上过一天学，故选C。