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张静中学2014高考英语一轮阅读题及答案一六 The Diary of a Young Girl is a book based on the writings from a diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Anne Frank began to keep a diary on her thirteenth birthday, 12 June 1942, three weeks before going into hiding with her mother Edith, father Otto, sister Margot and four other people. With the assistance of a group of Otto Franks trusted colleagues they remained hidden for two years and one month. They were arrested in 1944 and sent to separate Nazi concentration camps. Anne Frank finally died of typhus(斑疹伤寒) in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly (about two weeks) before liberation by British troops in April 1945. Of the group of eight, only Otto Frank, Annes father, survived the war. After the war, he got back the diary that was saved and kept by his friend. When Otto Frank read his daughters diary, he was astonished. I never knew my little Anne was so deep. Anne Franks story has become an example of Jewish suffering under Adolf Hitler, and a warning of the consequences of racism and persecution(迫害). There has been guess about the identity of Kitty, who in Annes revised diary is the only receiver of her letters. It was once thought that the name referred to Kitty Egyedi, a prewar friend of Franks. However, Kitty Egyedi said in an interview that she was flattered by the assumption but doubted the diary was addressed to her: “Kitty became so idealized and started to lead her own life in the diary. The name ... is not meant to be me.” The characters fictional(虚构的) origin was proved undoubtedly later. Anne had expressed the desire in the introduction of her diary for one person that she could call her truest friend, that is, a person to whom she could confide her deepest thoughts and feelings. She observed that she had many friends, but (by her own definition) no true, dear friend with whom she could share her innermost thoughts. In fact, the