企鹅阅读第7级：儿童法案（ELT分级阅读） Penguin Readers Level 7: The Children Act (ELT Graded Reader)

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 112 pages

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN:9780241520819

Published:30 Sep 2021

Weight:106g

Dimensions:129 x 196 x 12 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《儿童法案》中的菲奥娜•迈耶是一位高等法院的女法官，向来以严苛的睿智、精确和理性闻名。可她成功的职业生涯却无法掩盖家庭的不睦。多年的不育以及丈夫的出轨令她长达三十年的婚姻陷入了危机。

十七岁的男孩亚当由于信仰拒绝输血治疗，命悬一线。时间在流逝，控辩双方都给出了理由，为了做出公正合理的裁决，菲奥娜决定亲自前往医院探望男孩。一番恳谈触动了菲奥娜内心深藏已久的情感，最终，她的裁决将给两人带来怎样意想不到的后果……

麦克尤恩在《儿童法案》中向读者展现了一个道德与法律的困境：到底是尊重信仰、个人意志，还是应该坚持生命至上的原则？背负着文明社会的沉重枷锁，人性的天平将向哪一边倾斜？

“这是自《在切瑟尔海滩上》后，麦克尤恩写得很好的小说。”——《卫报》

The Children Act, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.

At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: Adam, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely expressed faith? In the course of reaching a decision, Fiona visits Adam in the hospital—an encounter that stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both.

作者简介

伊恩•麦克尤恩（1948—），本科毕业于布莱顿的苏塞克斯大学，于东英吉利大学取得硕士学位。从一九七四年开始，麦克尤恩在伦敦定居，次年发表的中短篇集处女作就得到了毛姆文学奖。此后他的创作生涯便与各类奖项的入围名单互相交织，其中《阿姆斯特丹》获布克奖，《时间中的孩子》获惠特布莱德奖，《赎罪》获全美书评人协会奖。近年来，随着麦克尤恩在主流文学圈获得越来越高的评价，在图书市场上创造越来越可观的销售纪录，他已经被公认为英国的“国民作家”，他的名字已经成为当今英语文坛上“奇迹”的同义词。

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

系统简介

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本系列包括那些流行的经典名著、现代小说以及发人深省的非小说类书籍，向语言学习者介绍畅销书作者和引人注目的内容。

企鹅阅读等级分为八级，这八个级别遵循欧洲语言学习参考框架（CEFR）。每本读物后面都有练习题，帮助语言学习者练习语法、词汇和关键的考试技巧。阅读前、阅读中和阅读后的问题测试读者对故事的理解，并发展词汇量。

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