Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926. She is an American novelist, best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and became an instant international bestseller. In its first year, it sold half a million copies and was translated into 10 languages. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1961 and was adapted to the screen the following year. Lee was 34 when the book was published, and it remains her first and only novel.
Lee’s story unfolds in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s when Atticus Finch, a lawyer and a single father, is called upon to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a poor white girl, Mayella Ewell. The setting and several of the characters are drawn from real life. Finch was the maiden name of Lee’s mother, and the character of Dill was drawn from Capote, Lee’s childhood friend. The trial itself has parallels to the infamous “Scottsboro Trial,” in which the charge was rape. In both cases, the defendants were African-American men and their accusers, white women. 【題組】35 In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, what is Tom Robinson charged with?
(A)Murder (B)Rape (C)Vandalism (D)Robbery
26 _________ books are changing traditional publishing models everywhere. In America and Britain, the rise of electronic books is the cause.
(A)Comic (B)Digital (C)Hardcover (D)Paperback
Mark and Lisa put an __________ in the newspaper last Saturday, informing their friends and relatives of their wedding.
(A) enlargement (B) announcement (C) improvement (D) amazement
44 Jeff’s five-year-old son had always enjoyed going to museums, particularly those where he could _____ buttons to
make things work.
(A)arrange (B)weigh (C)press (D)lodge
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