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It’s been a while since Oprah Winfrey started her famous book club in 1996， when her first pick of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The Deep End of the Ocean led copies to fly off the bookshelves. Now， the powerful media businesswoman is making her 100th book selection Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.

Winfrey celebrated the vital moment on Instagram. “It was 26 years ago that I started Oprah’s book club. Because I wanted to get the whole country reading and connecting over what I thought were great stories，” Winfrey said in a video. “I wasn’t sure at the time that the idea would kind of work， but here we are.”

Winfrey said Nopolitano’s book pays respect to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women as it follows a family of four sisters over three decades in a city significant to Winfrey， Chicago. She aired her talk show for 25 seasons in the Windy City. “There’s drama， love and sorrow. It is one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time. So happy it’s the 100th selection，” Winfrey said of Hello Beautiful.

The 100th pick will follow a special six-week reading plan and April 13 discussion on the Oprah Daily website with Winfrey， Napolitano and several book club readers.

Napolitano is the best-selling author of 2020’s Dear Edward. Her latest Hello Beautiful was published Tuesday by Dial Press.

Since 1996， Winfrey’s book choices have set her on a journey of extraordinary impact and success though sometimes they have caused dispute. It has endured through changes for both Winfrey and the publishing industry， through the rise of the internet and the end of Winfrey’s talk show， through absorptions in the classics and unexpected lessons in the reliability of accounts and the lack of diversity of book publishing.

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1. What happened to “The Deep End of the Ocean” finally？

A. Many people purchased it.

B. It made Jacquelyn Mitchard famous.

C. Its bookshelves have been flown off.

D. Oprah Winfrey lent many copies to the media.

2. Why did Oprah Winfrey found the book club？

A. To make reading interesting.

B. To inspire people to read good stories.

C. To get the whole country watching her shows.

D. To help the authors in book club sell more books.

3. What does the underlined word “dispute” mean in the last paragraph？

A. Treat.     B. Respect.

C. Reminder. D. Argument.

4. Which of the following best describes Oprah Winfrey？

A. Mean.    B. Bored.

C. Devoted.    D. Ambitious.

1. A。（剩余640字）