Former National Football League player and children’s author Tim Green has added another book to his list of acplishments: Unstoppable. The book tells the story of a 12-year –old boy named Harrison, who survives life in a cruel foster home before he finally finds a loving family. Once he settles in and realizes his natural football ability, tragedy strikes again and he loses his leg to a deadly bone cancer. Unstoppable follows Harrison’s incredible journey as he faces many challenges in his life.
Tim Green says he decided to write a novel about a kid facing cancer after watching how his wife fought to survive her own illness. “Her mental and physical toughness were more heroic to me than anything I’d ever seen in the national sports leagues,” Green told TFK Kid Reporter Zachary J. Lewis.
After watching his wife’s battle, Green said, he knew he needed to write about a person who struggled through a serious illness. But because the target age for his books is teen, he needed to tell the story through the eyes of someone that age.
When friends introduced Green to Jeffrey Keith, Green knew he had found the right person to help him“ capture the heroism that it takes to fight cancer”. Cancer-survivor Jeffrey Keith lost his leg to disease at age twelve, but went on to be the goalie （守门员）for the Boston College Division 1 Lacrosse（长曲棍球）Team and was also the first amputee to run 3,300 miles across the country. When Green heard Jeffrey Keith’s story, he knew it was the perfect narrative on which to base his next book.
TFK asked Keith what it felt like to read Unstoppable for the first time. “Tim captured what it felt like for me to go through this experience and battle back,” Keith said. “After I read the book, Tim asked me to describe it in one word, and I said ‘awesome’. Tim’s work sends a message to all the kids across the country that are facing obstacles that can have nothing to do with cancer: you are all unstoppable, as long as you believe it.”
【小题1】Who inspires Tim Green to write the novel Unstoppable?A．A boy named Harrison.B．His wife.C．Zachary J. Lewis. .D．Jeffrey Keith【小题2】The underlined word “amputee” in Paragraph 4 most probably means A．a person who has survived cancerB．a person who has had a leg or an arm cut offC．a person who looks different from othersD．a person who has no arms or legs【小题3】What do we know from the last paragraph?A．Jeffrey Keith thinks highly of Unstoppable.B．Jeffrey Keith has read Unstoppable many times.C．Unstoppable will be one the best-sellers this year.D．Jeffrey Keith is fond of reading Tim Green’s novels.【小题4】The novel Unstoppable intends to inspire kids that .A．they should fight against disease fearlesslyB．they should pursue their dreamsC．they can bee a writer if they wantD．they can overe any obstacles aheadB
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(答案→)B
解析：本文讲述了一个儿童作家根据与癌症抗争的妻子和一位残疾运动员的故事创作了一部励志小说Unstoppable的情况。
【小题1】考查推理判断。根据第二段Tim Green says he decided to write a novel about a kid facing cancer after watching how his wife fought to survive her own illness.可知，Tim Cteen目睹了妻子与疾病作斗争的过程，她所表现出来的精神，给了Tim创作的灵感。选B
【小题2】考查词义猜测。根据第四段可知，Jeffrey Keith因患癌症，在l2岁时失去了一条腿。但是，他在一个曲棍球队继续担任守门员，并成为第一个跑遍了全国的截肢者。上文说他失去了一条腿，因此可推测画线词意为：被截肢的人。选B
【小题3】考查推理判断。根据最后一段“After I read the book, Tim asked me to describe it in one word, and I said ‘awesome’.尤其是”awesome”可知，Jeffrey Keith对Tim Green的这部小说Unstoppable评价很高。选A
【小题4】考查细节理解。根据文章的最后一段Tim’s work sends a message to all the kids across the country that are facing obstacles that can have nothing to do with cancer: you are all unstoppable, as long as you believe it.”可知，这部小说向那些面临可能和癌症无关的挑战的青少年传递了一种信息：只要你相信你能行，你就是不可阻挡的。选D