This year’s winners of the Wenjin Book Award, announced by the National Library of China on April 23, are from three main categories — children’s books, popular science and social science titles.
The annual awards announced on World Book Day are meant to build a bridge between readers, writers and publishers to create a conductive feeling for reading books and fulfill the duty of libraries to promote culture and educate the people.
Started in 2004 and first celebrated in 2005, the award’s group of judges is drawn from a pool of great scholars and journalists.
Zhang He, a senior culture reporter from the People’s Daily, says the awards are considered the most honorable in China’s book world because it fully focuses on the quality of the books.
Every year, the award selects 10 books from those published within the past 12 months, covering three areas: humanities and social science, popular science and children’s book. The judging group also makes dozens of book recommendations for the public.
From 2005 to 2014, with a break in 2012, judging groups selected 99 books and recommended some 421 others from a pool of 6,000 titles.
Critics (评论员) praised the winning books, especially Zhongguo Gudai Wuzi Wenhua, or Tangible Culture in Ancient China, published by the Zhonghua Book Company in July 2014. Based on a series of the writer Sun Ji’s lectures on Chinese culture, the book has 10 chapters that attempt to answer people’s questions about various aspects of ancient Chinese people’s lives. Chen Li, a writer and one of the judges says that the book has the “newest, most comprehensive and systematic description” on Chinese culture.
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1.According to the passage, all of the followings are TRUE except ________.
A. There is a competition for the Wenjin Book Award every year.
B. World Book Day dates back to the year 2005.
C. It was because the award focuses on the quality of books that made it the most honorable in China’s book world.
D. The awarded books are about humanities and social sciences, popular science and children’s books.
2.Which of the following about Wenjin Book Award is RIGHT?
A. The books have to be written in the past years.
B. Themes of the books include humanities and social science as well as natural science
C. In the past decade, about one hundred books have won the Wenjin Book Award.
D. The award’s judges are from great scholars and writers.
3.Where can you probably read this passage?
A. On a website. B. In a magazine.
C. In a textbook. D. In a guidebook.
4.What can be the best title for the passage?
A. Winners of Wenjin Book Award. B. World Book Day.
C. Work on Wenjin Book Award. D. Best-sellers on World Book Day.
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Kerouac, the creator of vivid characters such as Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, died at a St Petersburg hospital in 1969, at the age of 47.
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A. His wife and mother still live in his home.
B. They are also suffering from serious illness.
C. People benefiting from his books want to say thanks.
D. People hope to learn how to deal with overnight fame.
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A. How to deal with becoming famous.
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* 3.
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1.What would happen to Peter without the cup?
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