It's about three best friends and fierce competitors in Olympic­level cycling.Zoe, Kate, and Jack are splendid athletes, but when their feet are on the ground, they're just like the rest of us: pretty much a mess.Gold discusses both excellent athletics and everyday life in depth.

　　What Dies in Summer

　　Tom Wright

　　Texas teenager Jim and his family find Lee Ann, Jim's cousin, half­frozen at their door one day, unwilling to say a word about why she left home.What none of them know is that by taking her in, they've put themselves in a killer's path.This book is filled with an atmosphere of terror.

　　The Newlyweds

　　Nell Freudenberger

　　It's hard to imagine two worlds more different than Rochester, N．Y.and Bangladesh, a country in South Asia.So we know there's culture shock coming when, after a sweet online courtship (恋爱期), George Stillman travels to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to bring Amina Mazid back to his hometown.This novel examines love and family - and the enormous different meanings two people can attach to those seemingly simple words.

　　5．God's Hotel differs from the other three books in that ________.

　　A．it has a happy ending

　　B．it is written by a teenager

　　C．the author has written about her own life

　　D．the author finished it with her family's help

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。根据第一段中的"By recording her own experiences, Sweet's book ..."可知，God's Hotel是一本自传。再结合另外三本书的作者及书中主人公的介绍可知，这三本书的主人公都不是作者本人。

　　6．What do we know about the main characters of Gold?

　　A．They have won Olympic gold medals.

　　B．They take part in team competitions.

　　C．They are strong and handsome.

　　D．They are very good friends.

解析：选D　细节理解题。根据第二段中的"It's about three best friends"可知答案。