King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
By Roger Lancelyn Creen

I loved reading when I was little. I think that’s the reason I love writing for children. My parents were both English teachers, and our home was full of books. Dickens was a family favourite. But the book that really fired my imagination was King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green, which my father read to me at bedtime when I was around 12.

Diary of a Nobody
By George and Weedon Grossmith

I’m a fool for a classic, and I’m so glad I finally came across Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith. It began life as a serial in Punch, with text by Ceorge and illustrations by Weedon. Put simply, it’s the funniest book I’ve ever read, and the model for so many brilliant first-person narratives like Adrian Mole and Bridget Jones. The short pitch is that it follows the social climbing of a London clerk, Charles Pooter but of course it’s so much more than that, poking fun at all things from middle class.

Exhalation
By Ted Chiang

It’s never too late to have your life changed by a book, and it happened to me again recently when I read Ted Chiang’s Exhalation. Ted Chiang wrote Story of Your Life, which inspired the sci-fi alien-visitation classic Arrival. I love that too, but each and every piece in Exhalation is its match in writing skills. If there are super-intelligent aliens in the galaxy seeking to communicate important truths, Ted Chiang may well be one of them.

【小题1】What is special about the book King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table?

A．It describes a story of intelligent aliens.

B．It stimulates the author’s imagination of writing.

C．It helps the author to improve the writing skills.

D．It opens a window for the author to understand classics.

【小题2】Who has drawn pictures for the book Diary of a Nobody?

A．Roger Lancelyn Green.	B．George.
C．Weedon Grossmith.	D．Ted Chiang.

【小题3】Where is the text most likely from?

A．A diary.

B．A novel.

C．A guidebook.

D．A magazine.