Harry: Oh, those Romans... Susan: You are hopeless. So, (59) ? Harry: I'm preparing for
Harry: Oh, those Romans...
Susan: You are hopeless. So, (59) ?
Harry: I'm preparing for a meeting tomorrow.
Harry: Oh, those Romans...
Susan: You are hopeless. So, (59) ?
Harry: I'm preparing for a meeting tomorrow.
A. what are you preparing
B. I'm giving a presentation on the new account.
C. 'Do you mean
D. is scheduled for 10 o'clock
E. just studying for history class
F. what are you doing
G. that's not true
H. It's interesting
Harry: What are you working on?
Susan: Oh, I'm (56) .
The current French bestseller lists are wonderfully eclectic. In (1)_____, there is everything (2)_____ blockbuster thrillers to Catherine Miller's La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M., a novel which has been (3)_____ praised as high art and (4)_____ as upmarket porn. Then there are novels (5)_____ the sticky questions of good and (6)_____ (Le Demon et Mademoiselle Prym) and faith versus science m the modern world (L'apparition). Philosophical (7)_____ continue in the non-fiction list. (8)_____ this week by Michel Onfray's "Antimanuel de Philosophic". a witty talk (9)_____ some of philosophy's perennial debates. Those who like their big issues in small chunks are also enjoying Frederic Beigbeder's Dernier Inventaire avant Liquidation, a survey of France's (10)_____ 20th-century books, (11)_____ with Mr. Beigbeder's (12)_____ humor from the title on (The 50 books of the Century Chosen by You and Critiqued by Me),
In Britain, meanwhile, there is olive oil all over the non-fiction list. It's a major (13)_____ for Nigella Lawson, a domestic divinity and celebrity (14)_____, whose latest (15)_____ of recipes tops the list. Annie Hawes, in second (16)_____. took herself (17)_____ to the sun-drenched hills of Italy to grow her own olives and write a book about them as did Carol Drinkwater, just (18)_____ the border in France. Fiction-wise, it's business as (19)_____, with the requisite holiday mix of thrillers, romance, fantasy and Harry Potter with The Goblet of Fire still burning (20)_____ at number three.
A.literature
B.narrative
C.story
D.fiction
The audience's response to the new image of "Harry Porter" is______.
A.negative
B.positive
C.indifferent
D.none of the above
A.being lost
B.having lost
C.losing
D.lost
The two dissimilar characters, i.e. Harry and Alan are common in that______.
A.they are both weird
B.their parents are weird
C.they have unresolved issues
D.they have weird families
Harry: (58) the people from Romania?
Susan: No, stupid. The Romans as in 'Julius Cesar'. You know, people from ancient Rome.
Harry: I hate history.
Susan: I don't. (57) I'm reading about the Romans.