第39练 阅读理解＋七选五 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Matthew Kneale is the award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction，including English Passengers，which won the Whitbread Book Award.He shares the books that have changed his life. The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé As a child I loved the Tintin books—for their adventures，their characters and their stylish illustrations.Though Hergé visited almost none of the faraway places he drew，he captured(刻画) them perfectly.His images，whether of Peru，Arabia，India or China，stayed with me and later，when I became a keen traveler，Tintin’s destinations were the places that I most wanted to reach.I never saw them all，needless to say，but I got to quite a few. Stig of the Dump by Clive King This was another book I loved as a child—the story of a boy who is bored staying with his grandparents，when he runs into Stig，a friendly Stone Age man.When my father read it to my sister and me，I was already fascinated by history and I loved the way the book captured the mystery of our distant，unrecorded past.Its charm stayed with me and much later I spent many a weekend driving around Britain，getting lost on small country roads，looking for prehistoric tombs and stone circles.There’s something breathtaking about these places，which are often in extraordinary locations. I Claudius/Claudius the God by Robert Graves When I first saw Rome，aged eight，I was amazed by the city’s layers of history and this same magic led me to come and live here,20 years ago.I first read I Claudius as a teenager and was attracted by the story of friendly，stammering，ridiculed Claudius，who grows up in the vipers’ nest of Rome’s imperial family and who，against all the odds，as his relatives destroy one another，survives and rises.Graves，a fine scholar，has a talent for making the past spring to life，in all its nastiness and wonder.In my own writing，fiction and non-fiction，I’ve tried to follow his example—to make history shocked，as it should do. 1．Why does Matthew share the three books A．Because they manage to bring the past back to life. B．Because they are great representatives of non-fictions. C．Because they are known for their stylish illustrations. D．Because they make a great difference to Matthew’s life. 2．What can we learn from the passage A．Rich travel experience shaped Hergé. B．Stig of the Dump is adapted from a true story. C．Matthew showed great interest in history as a child. D．The close family relationship helped Claudius’ growth. 3．Where can we probably find the passage A．In a magazine. B．In a history book. C．In a travel brochure. D．In an advertisement. B Sylvester James Gates is the current president of the American Physical Society.He appears in a number of documentaries，and is the receiver of countless awards. In looking back at his career，Gates credited MIT as his “intellectual birthing ground”．In fact，his path to MIT started at home.He still remembers that when he was a child，his father ... ...
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