课时作业17 Literature-（课时作业）【红对勾讲与练】2024版新高考英语大一轮复习全新方案（北师大版）

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#4 课时作业 17　 LITERATURE Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2023·湖南长沙高三开学考试) “Friends have your back,” said Christina Li about the bond between two seventh-graders in her first novel, Clues to the Universe. Li felt the same way about her best friend, Katia, whom she met in the fifth grade. Her characters Ro and Benji are fictional,but Li drew on her feelings about her friendship with Katia to develop the close friendship in her book. Like friends everywhere, Li and Katia enjoyed just spending time together. They talked a lot. Li even dedicated this novel to Katia,because “she and her family have supported my career so much,” Li said. Li also mined her memories about another middle school experience:the science fair. “ I was not a science kid,” Li said with a laugh. She signed up for the fair on a whim (一时兴起) but ended up loving the chance to study science. “ It turned out to be a defining experience and helped me become more confident,” she said. That􀆳s true,too,for Ro and Benji as they work on a rocket for their project. Rockets are Ro􀆳s passions. Benji prefers drawing, but he needs the credit to improve his science grade. Soon,though, Ro􀆳s excitement kick-starts Benji􀆳s curiosity. Then Ro decides to help Benji with his secret search:to find his long-absent father—who may be the creator of a popular comic called Spacebound. The novel is set in the early 1980s, before Internet research was a possibility. But the science fair and their search bring unexpected conflict. As a kid,Li loved reading. She started writing fantasies when