山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（31）_高考复习指南

山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（31）

　　 D．It helps people to know who is the greatest artist．

　　．From the passage we know that _____．

　　 A．it is not possible for treasures to be stolen

　　 B．old forts always make the best museums

　　 C．great art should be shared with all the people

　　 D．king Francis I of France brought in artists from an old fort

　　．In the third paragraph the word "moat "probably means_____．

　　 A．a high tower built in former times where soldiers watched out for enemies

　　 B．a long and deep ditch dug round a castle and was usually filled with water

　　 C．a cart pulled by horses on which soldiers fought

　　 D．a long and high wall around castle

　　“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie's opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. “If you aren't telling a story, you're a very dead writer indeed,” she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,” she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said ‘Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”