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Veronica

By Mary Gaitskill．

Pantheon Books，$23．

This attractively dark novel from the author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin is narrated by a former Paris model who is now sick and poor, her reflections On beauty and cruelty have clarity and an uncanny bite．

On Beauty

By Zadie Smith．

Penguin Press，$25．95

In her new book，a cultural-politics novel set in a place like Harvard，the author of White Teeth brings everything to the table：a crisp intellect，a lovely wit and enormous sympathy for the men，women and children who read her story．

Saturday

By lan McEwan．

Nan A．Talese／Doubleday．$26．

As exciting and as carefully constructed as anything McEwan has written，this astringent（尖锐的）novel traces a day in the life of an English neurosurgeon who comes face to face with senseless violence．

De Kooning：An American Master

By Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan．

Alfred A．Knopf,$35．

A brilliant biography, impressively researched and absorbingly written，of the talented

immigrant who stood at the vortex（中心）of mid-20th-century American art．

A History of Europe Since 1945

By Tony Judt．

Penguin Press，$39．95．

Judt’s massive，learned，truthfully detailed account of Europe’s recovery from the wreckage of World War II presents a whole continent in panorama（全景）even as it sets off detonations（爆炸）of insight on almost every page．

1．According to the passage，the most probable non-fiction novel is________．

A．Veronica                             B．Saturday

C．On Beauty                            D．A History of Europe Since 1945

2．if you’re fond of art，which of the following would be your favorite?

A．On Beauty B．Saturday C．Veronica D．De Kooning：An American Master

3．The novels published by the same company are_______________．

A．On Beauty&A History of Europe Since 1945

 B．Saturday & De Kooning：An American Master

C．Veronica & On Beauty

D．A History of Europe Since 1945 & Saturday

4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Mary Gaitskill is the author of both Veronica and Bad Behaviour．

B．On Beauty describes the stories that happened in Harvard．

C．Two authors finished De Kooning：An American Master together．

D．A post-war Europe can be found in A History of Europe Since 1945．

5．Which of the following novels are written by Zadie Smith?

A．On Beauty & Bad Behavior

B．Saturday & De Kooning：An American Master

C．On Beauty & White Teeth

D．Veronica ＆ White Teeth