2021高考英语大一轮复习考点规范练24Unit4Makingthenews新人教版必修5英语练习题.pdfVIP

考点规范练 24 Unit 4 Making the news Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Robert Michael Lipsyte is an American sports journalist and author.He was born on January 16,1938 in New York.Lipsyte’s father was a school head teacher,his mother a teacher.Instead of sharing a game of catch with his father,the two often visited the library and read books.One of Lipsyte’s children,Sam Lipsyte,is also an author and teacher at Columbia University in New York. In the first chapter of his book SportsWorld,Lipsyte points out that he did not even attend his first Major League Baseball game until he was thirteen years old.Lipsyte says he was very disappointed with his experience at the game and went to only one more game “as a paying customer”.His third Major League Baseball game was as a sports reporter for TheNewYorkTimes. As a boy,Lipsyte did play sports,but he felt acute pressure to do better than others at sports which discouraged his interest.This experience later developed into a major theme in some of Lipsyte’s non-fiction works such as SportsWorld and novels like JockandJill and OneFatSummer.The main character of OneFatSummer,Bobby Marks,is an adolescent in the 1950s.He is overweight and does something about it.In 1952,Lipsyte took a summer job as a lawn(草坪) boy and lost forty pounds,ridding himself of the youthful reputation for being fat. In 1978,Robert Lipsyte was diagnosed(诊断) with cancer.His experience with the illness led to another novel for young adults,TheChemoKid.Fred Bauer,the main character,is an ordinary high school junior and discovers he has cancer.Amazingly,Fred acquires superpowers,apparently due to the treatments,and becomes “The Chemo Kid”,fighting for the environment and against drug dealers. Lipsyte was given a position in the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame (名人堂) in 1993.The Margaret A.Edwards Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes an