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The Most Scenic Drives in America
Updated and translated into several languages for the first time since 1997, this travel book includes over 200 brand new photographs of the wonderful places along 120 selected routes. The updated volume also provides maps, the latest information on state parks, and lodging(住宿) suggestions.
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Price：$23.88
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Our Brother's Keeper
Author Jedwin Smith spent 30 years trying to get out of all memories of his brother, Jeff, who was killed in Vietnam. But in Our Brother's Keeper he tells what happened when he met several of his brother's old marine friends. Smith gets to know these men—all hurt by the past they share. Together the author and his new friends made a journey to Vietnam, to visit the place where Jeff died. Surprisingly, their Vietnamese guide was the former commander of the Viet Cong platoon carrying out the attack that killed Jeff. A powerful story of brotherhood, bravery and understanding…
Cover Price: $59.40
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I Am a Pencil
Children's book author Sam Swope took a job teaching writing to third graders in New York City. His students were immigrants or the children of immigrants from 21 countries, speaking 11 languages, having many different beliefs. But there were a few things they had in common: family troubles, for one, money struggles, and poetry. Every single student, with the help of this creative teacher, made great progress in writing. Swope leaves the reader with the encouraging faith that deep within each of us lives a poet, a genius—a child.
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What It Takes to Help Me Out
An editor for US News & World Report, David L．Marcus takes us inside a boarding school for troubled teens. The great stresses are put on these teens, which makes them lose their nature. This should cause us a truthful thinking.
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本文为应用文，是一则关于四本书的广告，介绍了这四本书的内容、价格及折扣。
21．Who can give you some advice on how to educate immigrant students with troubles?
A．Jedwin Smith. B．David L. Marcus.
C．Jeff. D．Sam Swope.
解析 D 细节理解题。根据解析I Am a Pencil部分中的第一、二句可知，这本书可以为有困难的移民学生提供教育建议且这本书的作者是Sam Swope，故选D项。
22．Which of the following books offers the biggest price cut?
A．The Most Scenic Drives in America.
B．Our Brother's Keeper.
C．I Am a Pencil.
D．What It Takes to Help Me Out.
解析 B 细节理解题。根据各书籍介绍中的You Save可知，Our Brother's Keeper折扣最多，故选B项。
23．What can we know about the passage?
A．The book The Most Scenic Drives in America includes many pictures and maps.
B．The book What It Takes to Help Me Out is about troubled teens from 21 countries.
C．Jedwin Smith's friends were killed in the war in Vietnam.
D．The children in Sam Swope's class are either poets or geniuses.
解析 A 细节理解题。根据解析The Most Scenic Drives in America部分中的…this travel book includes over 200 brand new photographs…The updated volume also provides maps…可知，这本书中包含很多照片和地图，故选A项。
24．The passage is probably taken from ________.
A．a textbook B．a science report
C．a travel journal D．an advertisement
解析 D 推理判断题。本文主要介绍四本书的内容、价格及折扣，因此很可能是一则广告，而不可能是教材、科学报道或旅游期刊，故选D项。
