The book has more than one author.A.YB.NC.NG
The book has more than one author.
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The book has more than one author.
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Books are steadily increasing in size: the average number of pages has grown by 25% over the last 15 years. A study of more than 2500 books appearing on New York Times bestseller reveals that the average length has increased from 320 pages in 1999 to 400 pages in 2014. According to James Finlayson, who carried out the survey, there ’s a “relatively consistent pattern of grow th year on year ”. For Finlayson, much of this shift can be explained by the industry ’s shift towards digital. He says “When you pick up a large book in a shop, you can sometimes be intimidated, but if you have a big book on a Kindle (eBook ), that’s not a consideration. ”
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In Hollywood there is a company that publishes children’S books with the aid of computers.Mthough other book companies also publish that(1),this particular company is very unusual.It“personalizes”the books(2)having the computer make the reader the leading character in the story.Here is(3)they do it.Let us say your child is named Jenny.She lives on Oak Drive in St.Louis,has a dog named Spot,a cat named Tabby,and three playmates(4)names are Bettsy,Sandy,and Jody.The computer uses this information to fill out a story that has(5) been prepared and illustrated.The story is then printed with standard equipment as a hard-cover(6).A child who receives such a book might say,“This book is about me.”The company,therefore,(7)itself the“Me-Books Publishing Company”.
Children like the me-books because they like to see(8)print their own names and the names of their friends and their pets.But more important.“Personalization ”has been found an important tool in(9)enthusiasms for reading.Me-books are thus helping a child to learn how to read by appealing to that natural desire to see hjs(10)Baffle in print.
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A.item
B.way
C.kind
D.form
The invention of the assembly line enabled Henry Ford
A.to create more jobs for the unemployed
B.to write a book on history
C.to reduce the price of his cars to $260
D.to cut the production of his cars by 50%
A.Something has to do with genes.
B.Sleeping far less that they need.
C.Drinking more than they have intended.
D.An inability to regulate behavior. and control impulses.
A.Nature has equal influence compared with human beings.
B.Nature has less influence than human beings.
C.Nature has more influence than human beings.
D.Nature doesn't have influence on the whole.
Harry Potter has bewitched detainees (未判决囚犯) at the U.S.
prison at Guantanamo Bay, there tales of the young wizard and 【M1】______
mysteries by Agatha Christie top the list of most popular books,
according to a prison librarian.
"Harry Potter is the popular tine among some of the detainee 【M2】______
population," said the librarian, a civilian contractor identified only as
"Lorie" who works at the prison camp for foreign terrorism suspects
at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Lorie said the popular of the best-selling Harry Potter books, 【M3】______
which recount the adventures of a boy wizard as he triumphs the 【M4】______
powers of evil, was matched only by the prisoners' passion for
Agatha Christie.
The Guantanamo Bay prison-which has come under fierce
attack by human rights groups for its treatment and indefinite
detention of prisoners-holds about 510 suspects from 40 countries.
But even this remote prison has not escaped the world-wide
frenzy over the escapades of Harry Potter and his friends at the
Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft. The sixth book in the
series by author J.K. Rowling, who went on sale last month, is the 【M5】______
fastest-selling book of all time.
"We have Harry Potter as four languages, English, French, 【M6】______
Farsi and Russian. We have it on order in Arabic. We do not have
books Five and Six in the series this time. We have had several 【M7】______
detainees read the series," Lorie told reporters.
"One prisoner has requested the movies," she said.
When asked that other books were among the prisoners' favourites, 【M8】______
Lofie said, "We have 12 different Agatha Christie rifles in Arabic that are
very popular. Also 1001 Arabian Nights."
The United States opened the Guantanamo prison in January
2002. A total of 242 detainees have been transferred out of the prison
to other countries either to be freed or for continuous detention, 【M9】______
while approximately 510 remain at Guantanamo, according to the
Pentagon. Many have been held for more than three years and the 【M10】______
only four have been charged.
【M1】
A.He didn't know the book was a best-seller
B.He's becoming more interested in the book
C.He's on his way to the bookstore
D.He has just finished the book
A.Mr. Mark has much more time.
B.Mr. Mark has a wife to help him.
C.Mr. Mark doesn't have as much as responsibilities the interviewee has.
D.Mr. Mark is not a book lover.
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