Question

 

The Invention of Hugo Cabret，by Brian Selzniek，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 Selzniek 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 is so much about movies and the history of cinema，I also wanted to figure

out how to make a book that is also 1ike a movie，”said Selzniek．

   Writing and illustrating（作插圖）the book was a long and hard process，Selzniek said．One of the challenges was figuring not what the story was really about and what happened to the main character，Hugo．Selzniek also had to figure out how to make the narrative and the pictures work together to tell the story．

  Selzniek has actually spent most of his career as an illustrator and really considers himself more of an artist than a writer．‘‘I’ve always drawn，ever since I was a little kid．I was encouraged to draw，and so that’s what I feel most comfortable with，”he said．

    He still enjoys many of the things he liked as a kid．That’s why it's not so hard for him to think about what kids would like to read in a book．In fact，sometimes he feels like a kid himself．

    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．Selzniek turned to friends for advice on the book．For now，Selzniek doesn’t plan on writing a sequel（續(xù)篇）to the book，but he warns，“You can never say never．”

1．The Invention of Hugo Cabret is           

A．a(chǎn) novel on which a movie has been based

B．a(chǎn) novel only using pictures explaining series of events

C．a(chǎn) book which tells children how to draw pictures

D．a(chǎn) book packed with pictures—a combination of words and drawings

2．It can be inferred that the text is          

  A．a(chǎn)n introduction to an unusual novel

  B．a(chǎn) summary record of an interview

  C．a(chǎn) biography of the novelist Brian Selzniek

  D．a(chǎn)n ad persuading kids into buying the novel

3．According to paragraph 4，working with pictures is    for Selzniek．

  A．difficult     B．embarrassing     C．natural      D．troublesome

4．What does Selzniek mean by saying “You can never say never”?

  A．It’s hard to say whether he will continue writing the book．

  B．It is such a difficult book that he won’t continue it．

  C．He will never give up writing a sequel to the book．

  D．He will never write a novel like The Invention of Hugo Cabert．

Answer 1

DBCA