1. In a good novel, the writer and reader communicate with each other. ( )
2. I have to face up to the problem sooner or later. ( )
3. I read the book in one sitting and Mary did too. ( )
4. E. M. Forster was one of the most important and respected British novelists of the 20th century. ( )
5. Do you believe that a work of literature can actually lead to social changes? ( )
6. Robert Burns was a great poet who wrote in the language variety spoken in Scotland. ( )
7. The Time Traveller’s Wife is the story of a man who has a strange and inexplicable genetic disorder. ( )
1. 我们想周游另一个世界、想与不同的人见面、想经历别样的人生并自我反省,我们无法遏制这样的渴求。(withstand)
2. 我们甚至感觉到——哪怕只是在一瞬间——我们和异文化读者的共同点或许要多于我们和家门口随便碰到的一个人的共同点。(have something in common)
3. We learn to look beyond our immediate surroundings to the horizon and a landscape far away from home.
4. Then we should reflect on the other lives we'll meet once we begin to read.
5. …but whether we're enchanted or whether we feel excluded, our emotions are nevertheless stimulated.