2014届高考英语二轮复习作业手册（新课标·湖北专用）专题限时集训15 人物型阅读理解 Word版含解析.docVIP

PAGE  专题限时训练(十五)　[人物型阅读理解] (限时：25分钟) 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (一) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the best basketball players in history. He was the NBAs most valuable player six times and a 19-time All-Star. When he retired in 1989, he was the NBAs all-time leading scorer with 38，387 points. That record has still to be broken. After retirement, Jabbar began scoring in the literary world. He has written seven best-selling books. In his new childrens book What Color Is My World？，he shines_the_spotlight_on African-American inventors whose achievements often went unnoticed. A reporter recently interviewed him in New York City. R: The title of your new book is What Color Is My World？， but the subtitle is The Lost History of African-American Inventors. Why do you say its a lost history? K: African-American inventors made some very significant contributions to American life and world culture, but theyre not acknowledged. So I think I should put something in the spotlight. R: Why did you choose to present this information in the form of a childrens book? K: I thought kids, especially African-American kids, needed to know this information. They should get this information at an early age so that they can have an idea of whats possible. So many kids are told that sports and entertainment are the fields that they should go into, and everything else is ignored. I wanted to put something out there that gave them a broader picture of what was possible. R: How did you combine facts with a good story? How did you decide on which inventors to include? K: The inventors I chose all made significant contributions to American life. So, everybody likes ice cream, but nobody knows about the guy who invented the ice cream scoop(勺子). Everybody likes potato chips, but nobody really knows that a black cook invented potato chips. Things like that get through to people because these are things that are a part of their everyday life. Once they see black people are involved in inventing it, it cha