有些高大的乔木,根部吸收的水分可以向上输送到植物的顶,主要动力来自( ) A、 光合作用 B、辅导作用 C、蒸腾作用 D、呼吸作用 答案:C4、A 13-year-old Chinese girl, Fan Yi (Nancy), who had
her primary education in US, recently published her first fairy tale,
Swordbird. The English fairy tale was listed as the bestseller of children's
fiction in the US, the Shanghai Evening Post reported.
Fan Yi was greatly interested in
observing birds ever since she was a little girl. In Hanmilton, New York, where
she lives, she often watches kingfishers and woodpeckers flying over her house
from the small woods nearby. And the inspiration for writing the book Swordbird
actually came from one of her dreams. At that time, she was studying American
history in school and happened to read many articles in magazines about the
9.11 terrorist attacks. One day, she had a dream in which some rosefinches
and bluejays were controlled by some black birds and began to fight with
each other. When she woke up, she decided to turn her dream into a story and to
convey her message for peace to the public.
In order to get her book published
in China, Fan translated the entire English version into Chinese.
"It is a learning process.
Since I didn't know many Chinese idioms, I had to get help from my mom and dad
from time to time. For another thing, a lot of poems in the original story are
written in rhyme. So when I translated them into Chinese, I wanted to make sure
that they were in rhyme, too," she said.
Fan Yi was born in Beijing in 1993.
She stayed in Beijing until she finished her first grade of primary school.
Then she moved with her parents to the United States when she was seven. Two
years later, she started to write her English story.
In March, this year, the book was
published by Harper Collins Publishers. It was selected as the week's
bestseller of children's fiction by the New York Times soon after it was
published.
In
future, Fan Yi might write more series for her book. It is expected that her
Swordbird Prelude (序篇)
might come off the press next year.
1. The underlined words
"rosefinches" and "bluejays" in Paragraph 2 probably refer
to ___________
A. outer-space
creatures
B. different kinds of birds
C. different
kinds of
planes D.
people from different races
2. Her book was related to the
9.11 terrorist attacks in that
A. it was being written when the
attacks happened
B. it expressed her desire for
peace against terrorism
C. they both involved fighting in
the air
D. the attacks
were mentioned in her book
3. Fan Yi thinks of the process
of__ as "a learning process".
A. writing her
book
B. writing the poems
C. translating
her
book
D. getting her book published
4. Fan Yi spent ____ years or so
writing her book.
A.
two B.
three C.
four D. five
5. What else can we learn about
Fan Yi from the article?
A. She's believed to be writing
more Swordbird stories.
B. Her Chinese version of
Swordbird was published in US.
C. Swordbird was re-published by
the New York Times.
D. She's likely
to become a professional writer.