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综合模拟练(二) 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分　听力(略) 第二部分　阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A Clarice Lispector，The Complete Stories The complete Stories，translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson，is a collection—86 stories，selected from nine collections，never before collected in English.There are early stories tense with teenage anxieties，and later mysterious tales filled with puzzles and riddles.Lispector has a rare gift：her translator once said she “looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf”． Jane Smiley，Golden Age This richly rewarding novel is the last in Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Smiley’s Last Hundred Years Trilogy(三部曲)，which follows one Iowa farm family，with one year per chapter，beginning in 1920.Centered around the family’s second generation，Andy Langdon and her husband Frank，Golden Age concludes in 2019.With Iowa farmlands becoming smaller and smaller，Andy and Frank’s twin boys work on Wall Street.Their sister lives a country life in Palo Alto with her family and horses.Their own children face waves of change as they come of age. Elena Ferrante，The Story of the Lost Child The Story of the lost Child opens in 1976，when Elena returns to her hometown of Naples，leaving her husband behind in Florence.Her long-time rival(对手) Lila is the last person she wants to see，but soon the two are involved once again in the violent city of their youth.Ferrante’s lasting lesson：“Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps.” Tracy K. Smith，Ordinary Light “She left us at night，” Smith，a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet，writes in the first sentence in Ordinary Light.She gives an account of her mother’s last days and moments，and her own private farewell.She moves on to search for her mother through memories.She remembers her as a steady presence during visits to grandparents，while spending time with her much-older sisters and brothers.Ordinary Light is a memory，a discovery，a blessing. 语篇解读　本文主要介绍了四本图书——The Complete Stories，