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安徽和县2017高考英语阅读理解一轮选编题及答案 【2014·新课标全国卷Ⅰ 】阅读理解C It happened to me recently.I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obamas Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President.A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was ，in his words, “a brilliantly(精彩地)written book”．However, he then went on to talk about Mr Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all.I sensed that I was talking to a book liar. And it seems that my friend is not the only one.Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they havent.In the World Book Days “Report on Guilty Secrets”， Dreams From My Father is at number 9.The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as Im not one to lie too often (Id hate to be caught out )，Ill admit here and now that I havent read the entire top ten.But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwells 1984.I think its really brilliant. The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it.It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky(I havent read him, but havent lied about it either )and Herman Melville. Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to ?impress? someone they were speaking to.This could be tricky if the conversation became more in?depth! But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J．k.Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words)．Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story(Ill come clean: I do this and I am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so)． 【试题分析】　世界读书日的一个调查报告表明：有些人撒谎说他们读过某本书，其实他们根本没有读。他们撒谎的主要是给别人留下深刻的印象。 1. How did the author find his friend a book liar? A．By judging his manner of speaking. B．By looking into his background. C．By men