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九年级英语每周阅读训练 A first for China ——曹文轩：我讲地道的中国故事，也是全人类的故事。 What are some of the best stories you have ever read? Fairy tales from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, or the Sherlock Holmes series written by Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle? Now, you can add another person to your list of favorite authors. His name is Cao Wenxuan, and he is a Chinese writer who is well known for writing children’s fiction. On April 4, Cao won the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Prize (国际安徒生奖) in Italy. He is the first Chinese writer to ever win this important award for children’s literature (文学). “The unanimous (全体一致的) choice of the jury (评委会), Cao writes beautifully about the complex (复杂的) lives of children facing great challenges,” Patricia Aldana, the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen jury president, said to Xinhua. If you read Cao’s stories, you will find many beautiful and poetic (诗意的) descriptions of scenery. u For example, in The Grass House (1997, 《草房子》), Cao writes, “(The grass) grows tough (坚强). When the sun shines, the grass shines like copper wire (铜线). When the wind blows from the sea, the grass makes surprisingly metal-like sounds.” Cao also uses love as a theme in his stories, and he describes it with great beauty. You can find this theme in Bronze and Sunflower (2005, 《青铜与葵花》). A country boy named Bronze who cannot speak meets a city girl named Sunflower. He takes Sunflower as his little sister after her father dies in an accident. Bronze does everything he can to make Sunflower happy: He leaves school to make sure there is money for Sunflower’s studies, he catches fireflies (萤火虫) for her and he makes a light to help Sunflower do her homework. But it seems they are doomed (命中注定的) to be pulled apart (分离) … Though the ending is sad, it helps make the story more realistic (现实的). “Sadness is a beautiful emotion (情感). It helps kids understand the real world when it is expressed properly,” Cao once told the Wen Hui Daily. When Cao creates a story, he does not write specifically (