With her magical first novel, Garcia joins a growing chorus of talented Latino writers whose voices are suddenly reaching a far wider, more diverse audience. Unlike Latin American writers such as Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquee of Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa—whose translated works became popular here in the 1970s—these authors are writing in English and drawing their themes from two cultures. Their stories, from “Dreaming in Cuban“ to Julia Alvarez’s “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent“ and Victor Villasenor’s “Rain of Gold“, offer insight into the mixture of economic opportunity and discrimination that Latinos encounter in the United States. “Garcia Girls“ for example, is the story of four sisters weathering their transition from wealthy Dominicans to ragtag immigrants, “We didn ’t feel we had the beat the United States had to offer,“ one of the girls says, “We had only second-hand stuff, rental houses in one redneck Catholic neighborhood after another, clothes at Round Robin, a black and white TV afflicted with wavy lines.“ Alvarez, a Middlebury College professor who emigrated from Santo Domingo when she was 10, says being an immigrant has given her a special vantage point: “We travel on that border between two worlds and we can see both points of view.“ With few exceptions, such as Chicano writer Rudolfo Anaya, many Hispanic-Americans have been writing in virtual obscurity for years, nurtured only by small presses like Houston’ s Arte Publico or the Bilingual Press in Tempe, Ariz. Only with the recent success of Sandra Cisneros’ s “Woman Hollering Creek“ and Oscar Hijuelos’ s prize-winning novel, “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,“ have mainstream publishers begun opening door to other Latinos. Julie Grau, Cisneros’ s editor at Turtle Bay, says, “Editors may now be looking more carefully at a book that before they would have deemed too exotic for the general readership.“ But if Villasenor’ s experience is any indication, some editors are still wary. In 1989, Putnam gave Villasenor a $75,000 advance for the hardcover rights to “Rain of Gold,“ the compelling saga of his family’s migration from Mexico to California. But the editors, says Villasenor, wanted major changes: “They were going to destroy the book. It’s nonflction: they wanted to publish it as a novel. And they wanted to change the title to ’Rio Grande,’ which sounded like some old John Wayne movie.“ After a year of strained relations, he mortgaged his house, borrowed his mother’s life savings and bought back the rights to the book that had taken 10 years to write. In frustration, Villasenor turned to Arte Publico. In the eight months since its release, “Rain of Gold“ has done extremely well, considering its limited distribution: 20,000 copies have been sold. “If we were a mainstream publisher, this book would have been on The New York Times best-seller list for weeks,“ says Arte Pulico’s Nicolas Kanelos. The author may still have a shot: he has sold the paperback rights to Dell. And he was just named a keynote speaker (with Molly Ivins and Norman Schwarzkopf) for the American Booksellers Association convention in May. Long before they gained this sort of attention, however, Villasenor, Cisneros and other Latino writers were quietly building devoted followings. Crossing the country, they read in local bookstores, libraries and schools. Their stories, they found, appeal not only to Latinos—who identify with them, but to a surprising number of Anglos, who find in them a refreshingly different perspective on American life. Still, there are unusual pressures on these writers. Cisneros vividly recalls the angst she went through in writing the final short stories for “Woman Hollering“: “I was traumatized that it was going to be one of the first Chicano books ’out there.’ I felt I had this responsibility to my community to represent us in all our diversity.“

Which of the following is true of Garcia as a Latino writer according to the passage?

A．She offered insight into the confrontations between two cultures.

B．She emigrated from Santo Domingo when she was 10 years old.

C．She became popular for her translated works in America in the 1970s.

D．She described her transition from wealthy Dominicans to ragtag immigrants.

What advantage do the new generation Latino writers have over Latin American writers according to the passage?

A．The former are able to write in two different languages.

B．The former can translate their works into different languages.

C．The former are able to express ideas from a bi-cultural perspective.

D．The former can travel freely across the border between two countries.

Which of the following is true of the Latino writers according to Paragraph 2?

A．Their works are full of obscurities.

B．None of their works won an overnight success.

C．Most of them remained unknown to the public for years.

D．They have great difficulty getting their works published.

What can be drawn from Villasenor’ s experience?

A．Some editors of mainstream publishers are critical.

B．Many Latino writers were mostly favored by small presses.

C．Rain of Gold was going to be one of the first Chicano books.

D．Rain of Gold was intended to be published as a novel by the author.

What did the new generation Latino writers do to get their works known to the public?

A．They avoided writing those too exotic for readers.

B．They revised their works as required by press.

C．They translated their works into English.

D．They read their books in public places.

Of all the following pairs of words, ____ is a minimal pair. boot and bought deep and dog either and neither ghost and best

_____can fly very high in______sky. The birds ... the The birds ... / Birds ... the Birds ... /

With spring approaching, the pink of the apple-blossom is beginning to______. show grow rise ascend

What is the main rhetoric device used in “The Pentagon was divided on the air strike.“? Synecdoche. Metonymy. Metaphor. Oxymoron.

Diagnostic test is often used for the purpose of______. finding out what students know and don’t know measuring students’ general language proficiency knowing whether students have the right language aptitude checking whether students have achieved the teaching objectives

If a teacher asks students to fill in the blanks in a passage with “that“, “which“ or “whom“, he/she is least likely focusing on grammar at______. lexical level “ syntactic level discourse level morphological level

简述教学日志(teaching journal)的含义和三个作用，并列出教师撰写教学日志的三点注意事项。

The sound of “th“ in “thin“ is______. voiceless, dental, and fricative voiced, dental, and fricative voiceless, dental, and affricative voiced, dental, and affricative

In my opinion she is kind and polite, so I put her rudeness today down as______. ordinary untimely progressive accidental

Tom, take this baggage and put it______you can find enough space. which in which wherever whereas

Which of the following instructions is helpful in developing students’ ability to make inferences? Listen to a story and write a summary. Listen to a story and work out the writer’ s intention. Listen to the story of a boy and then draw a picture of him. Listen to a story and note down the specific date of an event.

The most suitable question type to check students’ comprehension and develop their critical thinking is______. rhetorical questions referential questions close questions display questions

Which of the following is the last step in the process of writing essays? Editing the writings. Writing topic sentences for paragraphs. Gathering information and ideas relevant to the topic. Organizing the information and ideas into a logical sequence.

If a teacher asks students to talk about their hobbies in groups, he/she is trying to encourage______. peer correction peer feedback peer interaction peer assessment

设计任务：阅读下面学生信息和语言素材，设计20分钟的英语写作教学方案。教案没有固定格式，但必须包含下列要点： teaching objectives teaching contents key and difficult points major steps and time allocation activities and justifications 教学时间：20分钟学生概况：某城镇普通中学高中一年级学生，班级人数40人。多数学生已经达到《普通高中英语课程标准(实验)》五级水平。学生课堂参与积极性一般。语言素材： Dear Zhou Kai, How are you? We ’re doing a class survey and I have to write emails to all my pen friends in other countries. I hope you don’t mind answering these questions. 1 Do most adults smoke in China? 2 In most states in the US, it is now against the law to smoke in public buildings, such as banks and offices, on public transport and in restaurants and cafes. Is it the same in China? 3 Is the government planning to change the law about smoking in public? Hope you can answer my three questions! Best wishes, Paul

Mr. Woods, I am here just in case anything out of the ordinary______. happens happen would happen will happen

I look back on this pleasant holiday in Beijing with______pleasure. anything but all but everything but nothing but

Which inference in the brackets of the following sentences is a presupposition? Ede caught a trout. (Ede caught a fish.) Don’ t sit on Carol’ s bed. (Carol has a bed.) This blimp is over the house. (The house is under the blimp.) Coffee would keep me awake all night. (I don’t want coffee.)

Which of the following activities is often used to develop students’ speaking accuracy? Identifying and correcting oral mistakes. Acting out the dialogue in the text. Having discussions in groups. Describing people in pair.

If a teacher asks students to make their own learning plan, he/she is trying to develop their______. cognitive strategy affective strategy communicative strategy metacognitive strategy