【英语】2020届人教版高考英语必修3练习：Unit3TheMillionPoundBankNote 10页

必修3　 Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note Ⅰ.阅读理解 Samanta Schweblin, one of the best young Spanish language novelists nominated (提名) by British literary magazine Granta, has visited Beijing to promote the first Chinese edition of a collection of her short stories. The collection, Mouthful of Birds, has been translated and published by Shanghai-based publisher Reader.‎ ‎“Sometimes I hold the Chinese edition and choose a story at random and try to guess which one it is. But it is almost impossible for me; even the length is different,” says Schweblin. “When a book is translated into a Western language, I can at least understand some parts of my stories, and therefore suffer some doubt about the quality of the translation. But my Chinese edition is more like an act of faith.”‎ Born in Argentina in 1978, Schweblin says she is influenced by the literary traditions of the La Plata area, home to many famous Latin-American novelists.‎ Interested in writing stories of ordinary lives where suddenly something extraordinary happens, something new, strange or unknown, she thinks, “The stranger and the unknown are not always related to ghosts or aliens, but can be something related to the known world, something that actually could happen.”‎ Mouthful of Birds tells of a divorced father who worries about his 13-year-old daughter and her mysterious appetites. It turns out that his daughter eats live birds.‎ The idea for this story came to Schweblin when she was browsing the Internet. “Click, click, click, a picture of a little girl who looks frightened with her hands covering her mouth came to my eyes. Little by little, I developed the story in my mind, and then wrote it down,” recalls Schweblin.‎ Although there are elements of violence and bloodiness in Schweblin