people in Spain."可知，这个节日的重点是创造和摧毁玩偶，这些玩偶栩栩如生，经常取笑西班牙不诚实的政客和名人。因此这个节日的主要焦点就是玩偶。

2．Who would probably love the MardiGras?

A．Those who love watching parades.

B．Those who enjoy drinking wine.

C．Those who are fond of sporting events.

D．Those who want to eat foods with low fat.

答案　A

解析　推理判断题。根据MardiGras，U.S.A.部分的"reflecting the practice of eating richer and fatty foods. Other practices include wearing masks and parades，etc."可知，狂欢节的其他习俗有戴面具和游行等，因此那些喜欢观看游行的人可能喜欢这个节日。

3．Why does the Night of the Radishes last only a few hours?

A．The artworks don't last long.

B．Mexicans can't afford the time.

C．Vegetables will be sold at the market.

D．People aren't interested in the festival.

答案　A

解析　细节理解题。根据文章最后一句中的"the festival lasts only a few hours due to the limited life time of vegetables as folk art"可知，由于作为艺术品的蔬菜保存时间有限，这个节日只持续几个小时。

　　话题：文学　难度星级：☆☆

　　Amazon China，one of the largest online book sellers，unveiled the bestselling books in China for the first half of 2017 on Tuesday，disclosing Chinese people's reading habits.

　　Japanese author Keigo Higashino's Miracles of the Namiy a General Store topped the list of the most popular paper books，followed by late Chinese writer Yang Jiang's We Three and Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus：A Brief History of Tomorrow.

　　In the list of paid e­books on Kindle，the top three places were taken by Chinese writer Zhou Meisen's In the Name of People，Keigo Higashino's Miracles of the Namiya General Store and Fall of Giants-the first part of British author Ken Follett's historical The Century Trilogy.

Amazon has also released a ranking of Chinese cities where people read most. Hefei and Zheng zhou occupy the first and seconds pot respectively for the second straight year. The ranking was based on the ratio of books sales compared to the volume of all products sold on Amazon