20.弘扬创造精神-冲刺2023中考英语热点话题+重点题型提升练(通用版)

冲刺2023中考英语热点话题+重点题型提升练(通用版) 20.弘扬创造精神 一、阅读理解 1 Ben was riding in the back seat of a car this summer when he recognized the tune(曲调) on the radio. “I thought, ‘That’s my song!’” says Ben, who’s almost 8 years old. “I was proud.” He should be proud when he rocks out to “Backstroke Raptor”. It is a peppy ode(颂歌) to a water-loving dinosaur who helps his buddies fix a boat and go away from their island. The plot was Ben’s idea. “Children’s ideas are just cooler than adults’.” says director Lee. He set up The Story Pirates in 2004. He became interested in kid-written material while at Northwestern University. “When I graduated, I was still interested in work by kids,” he says. “The secret sauce of Story Pirates is that we allow kids to write about what they want,” says producer Sam. That could be a flying purple doughnut(甜甜圈), or something more realistic, like what happened in their daily life, he says. “We really try to stress that this isn’t a competition and Ben isn’t a winner,” Lee says. “He’s just one of thousands of kids who sent us a story. We happened to pick that one.” Although kid writers aren’t in the room while The Story Pirates develop their plays and so Lee says they’re never forgotten. If there are gaps to fill in, the goal is to make sure any added material stays true to the original(起初的) story. Podcast(播客) listeners get to hear the kids’ voices during interviews about how the writer came up with his or her story. After talking to Lee for the podcast—which aired in January—Ben went to New York with his family to see “Backstroke Raptor” performed onstage by actors in costumes. When he grows up, Ben wants to be an engineer. But he’s not done with being a writer. “Coming up with stories is about figuring out how to put parts together,” he adds. “Think about the characters, the setting, the problem and how to solve it,” Ben explains. His mother, Maryam Brown, says that process suits Ben. “He has a mind for machines and building, and that’s who he is,” she sa