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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter was a celebrated American journalist, essayist, short story writer and novelist. Her works deal with dark themes including justice and the unforgiving nature of the human race. Pale Horse, Pale Rider(1939)is her short novel set during the influenza pandemic(流感大流行)of 1918, which killed five times as many Americans as did World War I. Its main character, Miranda, is a young reporter who falls in love with a soldier； the book's fever-dream style captures the experience of the disease.
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton was one of the most successful novelists of his generation. The Andromeda Strain(1969)is his best-selling techno-thriller that begins when a military satellite crashes to the earth and releases an organism that kills almost everyone in a nearby small town. Then things get bad.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a major Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magical realism movement in Latin American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. Love in the Time of Cholera(1985)is his great Colombian authors attractive tale of a 50-year courtship, in which lovesickness is as stubborn as disease. "My best," he said of it. "The novel was written from my soul."
The Road
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. The Road(2006)is his beautifully written, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set after an unspecified extinction event has wiped out most of humanity. An unnamed man and a boy travel on foot toward a southern sea, having to avoid cannibals(食人者)and despair. The Road is a specially moving story1 of a journey.
1. What can be inferred from the first two books mentioned in the text?
A. They're the bestsellers. B. They're fairly tales.
C. They're about disasters. C. They're non-fiction.
2. Which book is written by the author who couldn't think highly of it too much?
A. Pale Horse, Pale Rider B. The Andromeda Strain
C. Love in the Time of Cholera D. The Road
3. Who wrote the book that described an adventurous journey?
A. Katherine Anne Porter. B. Michael Crichto.
C. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. D. Cormac McCarthy.
