2023届广东省肇庆市第一中学高三毕业班第一次教学质量检测英语试题
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Best Short Story Collections Everyone Should Read
白衣女人If you are on the lookout for great storytelling but don’t want to commit to a full-length novel, then short story collections are the answer. Here we have gathered four of the best short stories and collections, from all sorts of backgrounds and sources, to help you grow your“To Be Read”pile.
Runaway by Alice Munro
This award-winning collection features eight stories by the Canadian author Alice Munro. With straightforward and accessible pro(散文)，Munro tells stories of women and their relationships——with strong themes of love, friendship, and motherhood, among others. The idea of running away is another theme found throughout the stories.
The Complete Stories by Flannel O’Connor
苏轼的诗
Published in 1972,The Complete Stories actually won the National Book Award that same year. This collection includes 31 stories, twelve of which had never been included in any of O’Connor’s previous collections. They are told from the perspective of characters from the American South, as they deal with social issues like racism, gender roles, and more.
The Refugees by Vied Thanh Nguyen
From Thanh Nguyen comes this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of eight short stories that are all about Vietname refugees(难民)who have moved to the US. However,instead of describing the hardships of their trips, Nguyen focus on the lives they’ve established in their new country. Each story demonstrates a unique immigrant experience as characters move between cultures, countries, relationships, memories, and emotions.
Flowers for Alger-non by Daniel Keys
我的爱永远陪着你This classic short story is about the journals of Charlie Gordon, a cleaner with an IQ of 68. Charlie’s luck changes when he is lected for an experiment that purports to turn him into a genius——but everything that goes up must come down in the end.Flowers for Alger-non won the Hugo Award in 1960 for its groundbreaking prentation. Heartbreaking and rich with subtle poignancy,it is likely to remain a staple for centuries to come.
1．Who collection should you choo if you are interested in the topic on racial discrimination?
A．Alice Munro. B．Flannery O’Connor.
C．Daniel Keys. D．Vied Thanh Nguyen.
佛的组词
醒世铃音2．What do we know about The Refugees?
A．Its eight stories share the same characters.
B．It focus on women and their relationships.
C．It is about the Vietname immigrants’ lives in the US.
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D．It mainly describes the hardships of Vietname refugees’ trips.
存问
3．What do the short stories and collections have in common?
西雅图英文A．They consist of eight stories.
B．They have won certain award.
C．They are told from an immigrant’s perspective.
D．They demonstrate the hardships of Canadian authors.
There are veral items that most women would consider to be daily esntials that they need to have in their purs at all times. Few would consider a pair of scissors to be among the items. But for Shi Qinling, this tool has been with her everywhere she goes for the past decade—not as a means of lf-protection but artistic expression.“Paper-cutting is not about cutting random patterns from paper. Writers tell stories using words, I
do the same,but with a pair of scissors,”Shi said.
Shi developed an interest in handicraft (手工艺)when she was a child who often found herlf alone at home. Out of boredom, she would play with paper, folding and cutting them into different shapes. This interest later developed into a passion, one that she decided to pursue by majoring in arts and design during her time in university. After graduation, however, she found herlf working at a ship design company as she was unsure about what she wanted to do with her future. About a year later, the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Rearch Institute offered her a position in their paper-cutting department. Realizing that she still had a love for the handicraft, she made the career switch.
In 2010, Shi started learning paper-cutting from Xi Xiaoqin, an expert of paper-cutting. Three years later, one of her works, The Fighting Fish, won the third place in a national competition. Six years later,Shi was named a Shanghai paper-cutting inheritor(继承人)and became the city’s“youngest inheritor” of the paper-cutting heritage. Over the past decade, Shi’s works have been exhibited in 23 exhibitions. Although Shi is already so skill
ed that she can create an animal pattern in 10 minutes, she continues to practice her skills every day. The reason is that she views paper-cutting as not just an art form, but also a form of learning about traditional Chine culture. She thinks she has the responsibility to inherit this cultural treasure, and will make more efforts to attract people from different age groups and different fields to try paper-cutting.
