The Inventionof Hugo Cabret,by Brian Selznick,is a novel like no other.There are pages of exciting events and then suddenly,wait! A picture with tiny details,then a big picture that takes up the whole page-and the next page,and the next page,and the next!The pictures are actually telling the story.It’s like a book and a movie all in one.
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Selznick about his unique novel.I wanted to know just how he came up with the concept of writing a novel that reads like a picture book.
“Because the book was so much about movies and the history of cinema,I also wanted to figure out how to make a book that was also like a movie,” Selznick said.
Writing and illustrating the book was a long and hard process,Selznick said.One of the challenges was figuring out what the story was really about and what happens to the main character,Hugo.Selznick also had to figure out how to make the narrative and the pictures work together to tell the story.
Working with pictures was natural for Selznick.He has actually spent most of his career as an illustrator and really considers himself more of an artist than a writer.
But sometimes figuring out what was going to happen in the story was not easy,he told me.He had no idea what the story was going to be about when he started writing.He didn’t know if it was going to be sad,adventurous,or exciting.For now,Selznick doesn’t plan on writing a sequel (續(xù)集) to the book,but he warns,“You can never say never.”

  1. 1.

    The Inventionof Hugo Cabret is ________.

    1. A.
      a novel on which a popular movie has been based
    2. B.
      a novel only using pictures explaining series of events
    3. C.
      a book which tells children how to draw pictures
    4. D.
      a book packed with pictures-a combination of words and drawings
  2. 2.

    What does Brian Selznick think of writing the novel?

    1. A.
      Challenging.
    2. B.
      Time?saving.
    3. C.
      Adventurous.
    4. D.
      Foolish.
  3. 3.

    By saying “You can never say never”,Selznick means ________.

    1. A.
      it’s hard to say whether he will continue writing the book
    2. B.
      it is such a difficult book that he won’t continue it
    3. C.
      he will never give up writing a sequel to the book
    4. D.
      he will never write a novel like The Inventionof Hugo Cabret
  4. 4.

    It can be inferred that the text is ________.

    1. A.
      an introduction to an unusual novel
    2. B.
      a summary record of an interview
    3. C.
      a biography of the novelist Brian Selznick
    4. D.
      an ad persuading kids into buying the novel
DAAB
1.D推理判斷題。依據(jù)前兩段推斷The Invention of Hugo Cabret是一部特殊的小說,作者把文字和圖片相結(jié)合,獨具匠心。
2.A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。依據(jù)第四段One of the challenges was figuring out知道答案。
3.A。語意理解題。依據(jù)最后一段內(nèi)容推測即使作者本人也難以斷定是否會繼續(xù)寫下去。
4.B。推理判斷題。依據(jù)第二段特別是I recently had the opportunity to talk with Selznick about his unique novel推斷這是作者采訪作家后寫下的概述。
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