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第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题，每题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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 A LITTLE PRINCESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Price: $7.10 (Paperback Dec. 9, 1998)

The novel tells of the story of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to a boarding school during her father’s campaign in India. Thanks to Capt. Crewe’s money, Sara is treated as a little princess until, one day, word comes of her father’s tragic death. Miss Minchin, the school’s greedy headmistress, wastes no time in putting the now-penniless Sara to work for her room and board. It is only through the friendship of two other girls and some astonishing luck that Sara eventually finds her way back to happiness.

 THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Price: $3.95 (Paperback July 1, 2003)

Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays. The Secret Garden is a beautiful tale o f friendship, secrets and human spirits. A spoiled orphan named Mary returns to England from India when her parents die. She is sent to live in Yorkshire with her uncle. Miserable and lonely, she begins to explore the house’s gardens and discovers a key to a secret garden that the uncle sealed off when his wife died. There she discovered a secret so important, so enchanting, that it will change her life forever.

 PETER PAN by J. M. Barrie and Scott Gustafson

Price: $16.95 (Hardcover Oct. 1, 1991)

It is a children’s story full of imagination and adventures. A boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Indians, fairies and pirates, and from time to time meeting ordinary children from the world outside.

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56. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the three books?

A. The little princess refers to a girl named Sara Crewe.

B . A Little Princess was written by a famous female writer.

C. Peter Pan is a boy with magic powers who never grows up.

D. The secret garden mentioned in the passage is located in India.

57. How much does it cost to order these three books online?

A. $5.60 B. $22.40 C. $25.00 D. $ 28.00

58. What do these three books have in common?

A. They were published in the same year. B. They all have a hard cover.

C. They have children as their main characters. D. They are all stories with tragic endings.