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2、630 9511Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.If you see this line,you are not answering the questions.()CONTINUE2Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage.This passage is adapted from Michael Chabon,The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier&Clay.2000 by Michael Chabon.R
3、ose Saxon,the Queen of Romance Comics,was at her drawing board in the garage of her house in Bloomtown,New York.Miss Saxon was at work on the text of a new story,which she intended to begin laying out that night after her son went to bed.It would be the lead story for the June issue of Kiss Comics.S
4、he planned to call it“The Bomb Destroyed My Marriage.”The story would be based on an article that she had read in Redbook about the humorous difficulties of being married to a nuclear physicist employed by the government at a top-secret facility in the middle of the New Mexico desert.She was not wri
5、ting so much as planning out her panels,one by one,at the typewriter.Over the years,Sammys scripts had grown no less detailed but looser;he never bothered with telling an artist what to draw.Rosa couldnt operate that way;she hated working from Sammys scripts.She needed to have everything figured out
6、 in advancestoryboarded,they called it in Hollywoodshot by shot,as it were.Rosa had gotten her start in comics soon after Sammys return to the business,after the war.Upon taking over the editors desk at Gold Star.Sammys first move had been to clear out many of the subcompetents who littered the staf
7、f there.It was a bold and necessary step,but it left him with an acute shortage of artists,in particular of inkers.Line510152025 Tommy had started kindergarten,and Rosa was just beginning to understand the true horror of her destiny,the arrant purposelessness of her life whenever her son was not aro
8、und,one day when Sammy came home at lunch,harried and frantic,with an armload of Bristol board,a bottle of Higgins ink,and a bunch of 3 brushes,and begged Rosa to help him by doing what she could.She had stayed up all night with pages it was some dreadful Gold Star superhero strip,The Human Grenade
9、or The Phantom Stallion and had the job finished by the time Sammy left for work the next morning.The reign of the Queen had commenced.Rose Saxon had emerged slowly,lending her ink brush at first only now and then,unsigned and uncredited,to a story or a cover that she would spread out on the dinette
10、 table in the kitchen.Rosa had always had a steady hand,a strong line,a good sense of shadow.It was work done in a kind of unreflective crisis modewhenever Sammy was in a jam or shorthandedbut after a while,she realized that she had begun to crave intensely the days when Sammy had something for her
11、to do.Then one night,as they lay in bed,talking in the dark,Sammy told her that her brushwork already far exceeded that of the best people he could afford to hire at lowly Gold Star.He asked her if she had ever given any thought to penciling;to layouts;to actually writing and drawing comic book stor
12、ies.He explained to her that Simon and Kirby were just then having considerable success with a new kind of feature theyd cooked up,based partly on teen features like Archie and A Date with Judy and partly30354045505560明志教育Q Q 群30 8 4630 9511Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is i
13、llegal.If you see this line,follow me at Wetchat:satxbsCONTINUE3on the old true-romance pulps(the last of the old pulp genres to be exhumed and given new life in the comics).It was called Young Romance.It was aimed at women,and the stories it told were centered on women.Women had been neglected unti
14、l now as readers of comic books;it seemed to Sammy that they might enjoy one that had actually been written and drawn by one of their own.Rosa had accepted Sammys proposal at once,with a flush of gratitude whose power was undiminished even now.65701Which choice best summarizes the passage?A)A succes
15、sful artist thinks back on the beginningof her career.B)A comic book geared toward women becomes apopular best seller.C)An owner of a comic book company develops anew kind of comic book.D)A woman helps her husband build a successfulcomic book company.2The author includes the information in the first
16、 paragraph most likely toA)reveal specific information about Rosas conflictlater in the passage.B)provide a brief introduction to the womens comicbook industry.C)reveal key details about the main character andsetting of the passage.D)provide a flashback to Rosas life before shebecame a wife and mother.3As used in line 17,”Iooser most nearly means A)RoomierB)More informalC)More carelessD)Weaker4The main purpose of including the information about Sammy taking over as the editor at Gold Star is to