When eight-year-old student Barry writes a story, it is usually about dinosaurs（恐龙）because they’re cool. For 10-year-old Emily, fantasy（奇幻）books are her stories of choice while she has recently written such a story.
These are the kinds of ideas and storytelling skills that Australian writers are hoping to inspire in students getting on Russ the Story Bus, a traveling library that will make its way around schools in western Sydney and New South Wales for the next six weeks. It is one of a number of programs in the Children’s Festival of Moving Stories that started this week. The bus, which has been painted by artist Shaun Tan, has a library full of children’s books that students can take home.
Traveling with the bus each week will be a writer. James Roy, who has written books like Captain Mack and Billy Mack’s War, said much of his inspiration came from what he saw around him. “It’s really easy to think that stories are all about heroes or people who can do great things,” Roy said. “But in fact a lot of the more important stories are kids’ own stories and the things they try hard to deal with every day. I’ve been all over the world talking to kids about writing stories and it doesn’t matter where you go...the same things worry them and the same things excite them.”
This is the third year the Children’s Festival of Moving Stories has been held and the first time that Russ the Story Bus will visit faraway schools. Along with the bus, writer talks will be held at libraries in western Sydney for students.
“The fact that we can visit the schools is good for the children who may come from families where English is a second language and they don’t have many chances to read,” Clare Sawyer, head of children’s programs, said. “We hope the bus can make them think more widely, to think about where stories come from and what stories they can make up for themselves.”
【小题1】What is Russ the Story Bus?| A．An artist’s home. | B．A library on the move. | C．A story about a bus. | D．A newly-painted bus. |
| A．Stories around children. | B．Stories easy to read. | C．Stories about heroes. | D．Stories about great things. |
| A．It will have writer talks. | B．It will have more books. |
| C．It will teach writing skills. | D．It will reach faraway schools. |
| A．They have no schools to go to. | B．They may be weak in English. |
| C．They don’t like reading stories. | D．They have no chance to visit big cities. |
Reading is often a lonely activity. This means that except for the times when your teacher reads to you, or you are part of a book group that discusses what you are reading, it is usually done alone. However, reciting（朗诵）a poem is different.
It’s important to recite poems because it gives you confidence and helps with your reading. When you are very interested in reciting poems, performing（表演）them is like acting in a theatre.
Before performing, spend plenty of time practising the poem and getting to know the words’ rhythms（节律）. Try not to stop at the end of every line.
| A．It brings them alive. |
| B．Don’t be afraid of reciting a poem. |
| C．Just read from a book when you perform. |
| D．Many people might be worried about feeling nervous. |
| E．Get the sense of the poem as a whole, not just the words. |
| F．You can ask your teacher if you can recite a poem to your class. |
| G．It is the perfect way to share with your friends a piece of work you love. |
Photography was certainly a wonderful invention. Photographs can give a very clear idea of places and of people that we have never seen. An encyclopedia (百科全书) , for example, is always better when it has good illustrations. But we also need words to explain the photographs and drawings. A photograph of an elephant may give us a very good idea of what an elephant looks like, but it tells us nothing about the different sorts of elephants there are and where they are found, their exact size and weight, how they can be useful to man and so on.
In the same way, a good film has action, movement, color, and maybe music. These are things we do not find on the printed page. But reading a novel has certain advantages over watching even an excellent feature film. Reading a novel requires imagination. Each of us imagines a story differently.
Watching news on television can certainly be exciting. But we need newspapers as well. Some important news stories happen when there are no cameras around. More importantly, a newspaper does not just report the news. It explains why something has been happening. It also contains interesting articles on different subjects. Newspapers are an important part of our lives, if we want to understand what is going on in the places we live as well as in other parts of the world.
Reading is very important for information and pleasure. We need to be good readers to enjoy a full life as human beings. Reading is a skill and like other skills, it needs practice. The more we read, the better readers we become. And the better readers we become, the more we enjoy reading! The secret is to get the reading habit. Read at least a little every day.
【小题1】According to Paragraph 2, photographs can give us __________.
| A．enough information about people and places |
| B．no information about things |
| C．some information about things but not enough |
| D．the wrong information about things |
| A．more information than television |
| B．less information than television |
| C．more news from other countries |
| D．less information about important events than TV |
| A．There are more interesting subjects in novels. |
| B．We do not hear any music in a novel. |
| C．Novels always explain what is happening. |
| D．Novels make us use our imagination. |
| A．It is a wonderful invention. |
| B．It is an important part of our lives. |
| C．It requires no practices. |
| D．It is not as important as television. |
Books are our best friends. They are very quiet, but we can always find both fun and knowledge once we open them. Here are two good books you can read during the holiday.
The Little Prince (王子).
French Writer: Antoine de Saint—Exupery
Both adults and children love this classic book.
The little prince comes from planet B—612. In his eyes, adults are all very strange. Unlike them, he sees the essence (本质)of things. He cares more about a flower and a sheep than the “important” things of the adult world.
You Make It Happen
American writer: Liu Yong
Writer Liu Yong wrote this book for his daughter.
The book teaches young students how to use their free time and even what kind of clothes to wear. It answers many teenagers’ most common questions. Liu uses his daughter’s stories as examples to help readers understand the principles (原则).
| A．Books make life colorful. |
| B．His book is far from boring. |
| C．It can help young people succeed. |
| D．The writer is as famous as his father. |
| E．The prince lives on his planet with a rose. |
| F．It is about the adventure of a young prince. |
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