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| Mattie Stepanek was born on July 17, 1990 in Maryland, the U.S. The young poet only lived for about thirteen years, but he lived every moment of his life to the fullest. 1 At the age of three, the disease killed his brothers. From then on, he began writing poetry (诗) about love, peace and value of life. 2 In 2001, Mattie"s first book of poetry Heartsongs was published. 3 In the next few years he wrote four other books of poetry Journey Through Heartsongs, Hope Through Heartsongs, Celebrate Through Heartsongs and Loving Through Heartsongs. And more than one million copies were sold. Mattie became famous but he was still very sick. He had to spend a lot of time in hospital and use a wheelchair to get around. 4 "We must remember to play after every storm…We must always listen to the song in our heart, and share that song with others," he wrote. Mattie passed away on the morning of June 22, 2004. His story has touched millions of lives. 5 | |||||||||
| A. Soon the book become a national best-seller. B. Although he lived a short life, his poems will continue to reach people of all ages around the world. C. And soon he became very popular. D. Mattie and his brothers all had a terrible muscle-weakening (肌肉萎缩的) disease. E. However, he never seemed sad and angry. F. He felt worried and sad. G. To him, poetry is "a way that you can inspire (激励) others while you"re expressing your true feelings." | |||||||||
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| Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most successful children"s book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants. In 1954, life magazine published (刊登) a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children"s books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books. In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham. In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖). He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents. He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people. | |||||||||
| 1. Doctor Seuss learned from the magazine that ______. | |||||||||
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| A. some school children could not read B. many children"s books were interesting C. children wanted to learn to read D. a writer for children was wanted | |||||||||
| 2. People like his books because the books ______. | |||||||||
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| A. are cheap and easy to get B. were written in different languages C. are easy and interesting to read D. were written with invented words | |||||||||
| 3. He wrote the book The Cat in the Hat at the age of . | |||||||||
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| A. 50 B. 53 C. 56 D. 87 | |||||||||
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| A. Doctor Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham with over 230 words. B. Doctor Seuss wrote books only for children in the United States. C. The Cat in the Hat was written only for six-year-old children. D. His books provided education and enjoyment for Americans. | |||||||||
| 5. From the text we know that Doctor Seuss ______. | |||||||||
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| A. won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death B. sold millions of his books himself worldwide C. changed American children"s way of reading D. wrote the largest number of books in the world | |||||||||
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| Learning Chinese may seem difficult to foreigners outside China. However, Daisy Raffan, an 1 girl in Britain, hopes to bring the 2 to the young people. Daisy has 3 an online learning website to teach the language to as 4 people as possible, all over the world. With China"s fast development in the world, Daisy thinks 5 important for people to learn the language sooner rather than later. Daisy has been learning Putonghua 6 the age of five. Two years ago, 7 she decided to pass on what she had learned, she 8 the idea for the website, kidschineseclub.com. She said: "People are afraid to learn Putonghua. One of the main reasons is that they think it"s an 9 language to learn, but I have had fun 10 it. And I hope what I have done is easy and fun." Her 11 offers a series of lessons, which are videos of Daisy teaching a group of students on topics from greetings and numbers to Chinese culture. Daisy"s website has 12 the support of several important persons-the teenager says she has received a letter praising (赞扬) her work from Gordon Brown, 13 is the British Prime Minister (首相). She said: "I wrote to him and told him what I was doing and got a letter 14 . He said that what I was doing was a really good idea. I thought it was amazing. I was excited that 15 was supporting what we"re doing." | |||||||||
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