[单项选择]BIOGRAPHY : HISTORY ::
A. trio : chorus
B. sonata : dance
C. record: disaster
D. treatise: discourse
E. rhythm : prose

[单项选择]An unauthorized biography is likely to attract more readers because ______.

[单项选择]An unauthorised biography is likely to attract more readers because______.

[单项选择]The history of life on earth has been a history of between living things and their surroundings.


A. interaction
B. intersection
C. interference
D. intercourse

[单项选择]The biography cited more than a hundred source books that the author had _______.


A. consulted
B. sought
C. inquired
D. inferred

[单项选择]He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a ______ of Henry Kissinger.
A. casualty
B. criteria
C. dissection
D. necessity

[单项选择]According to the passage, the biography Money From Thin Air written by O'Casey Corr______.

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Text 3
The title of the biography The American Civil War Fighting for the Lady could hardly be more provocative. Thomas Keneally, an Australian writer, is unapologetic. In labeling a hero of the American civil war a notorious scoundrel he switches the spotlight from the brave actions of Dan Sickles at the battle of Gettysburg to his earlier pre-meditated murder, of the lover of his young and pretty Italian-American wife, Teresa. It is not the murder itself that disgusts Mr. Keneally but Sickles’s treatment of his wife afterwards,
and how his behavior mirrored the hypocritical misogyny of 19th-century America.
The murder victim, Philip Barton Key, Teresa Sickles’s lover, came from a famous old southern family. He was the nephew of the chief justice of the American Supreme Court and the son of the writer of the country’s national anthem. Sickles, a Tammany Hall politician in New York turned Democratic congressman in Washington, shot
A. launch a surprise attack on Democratic congressman.
B. show sympathy for an abused but reputed lady, Teresa.
C. curse bitterly at the hypocrisy of notorious heroes.
D. expose the true character of a civil war general.