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高考提能练(五)　必修1　Unit 3　Celebration Ⅰ.阅读理解 (2020·成都第二次诊断) Author Walter Dean Myers died at the age of 76 after a brief illness.Walter Dean Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults and received many top awards. The prolific author was loved for his vivid description of the lives of African American children，and for writing books for young people that covered different subjects.“Myers has written about all those subjects with deep understanding and a hard­won，qualified sense of hope，” said Leonard S．Marcus in 2008. He was born in 1937 and was adopted by Florence Dean and Herbert after his mother died while giving birth to his younger sister.They loved him very much and his mother read to him from a very young age.Reading pushed him to discover worlds beyond his landscape. He began writing at an early age.He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him.“It’s what you do，”