大学英语-习题及答案-大学英语Ⅰ-Unit 1 What’s Right About Reading.docVIP

Reading the following passages and do the corresponding exercises Passage I I was born in 1948 in San Francisco, where I lived in a black ghetto but commuted every day to a school in Chinatown. As a result, I was always something of an outsider. (1)In my neighborhood, I could serve as the all-purpose Asian in war games — being cast either as the Japanese or the Korean Communist who got killed depending on what war we were fighting. Even in Chinatown, I felt like an outsider. Since I went to a Catholic school, my Chinese-American friends would tell jokes in Chinese so that the nuns would not understand. However, since I couldn’t speak Chinese, neither did I. When I was a child, there weren’t any books about Chinese-American children; but when I went to the library, I could never get interested in books about Homer Price (一个美国儿童读物中虚构的男孩) or other such children. Every child had a bicycle and no one seemed to worry about locking their front doors. As a result, these and other such details seemed like fantasy to me. Ironically, what seemed “truer” to me were science fiction and fantasy because in those books children were taken to other lands and other worlds where they had to learn strange customs and languages — and that was something I did every time I got on and off the bus. (2)Actually, I never intended to be a writer but a chemist. In high school, the chemistry teacher let me work on different sorts of explosives so that I was more inclined toward the sciences. (3)But my English teacher told me that if I wanted an A in his course, I would have to get something accepted by a notional magazine. He later retracted (撤回) that threat, but I had gotten bitten by the submission bug (开始答应为杂志写故事) so I kept on sending in stories. (4)When I was eighteen, I finally sold my first story to a science fiction magazine for a penny a word — which is the rate Dickens used to get (but pennies went further in his day). From the very beginning, I think I was dealing with that childhood f