(1)Ray Bradbury considered the education he got from the library to be ( ).
1. better than the education that most university graduates get
2. too long, since it lasted about ten years
3. incomplete and poor
4. the same as one he could get by going to graduate school
(2) Ray Bradbury was first introduced to reading ( ).
1. in the second grade of elementary school
2. at home
3. at a comic book festival
4. by a librarian
(3) His love of comics led Ray Bradbury to ( ).
1. steal comic books from the local comic book shop
2. read comic books to his parents
3. create some of his own comics
4. support young comic writers who were struggling to get published
(4) According to Ray Bradbury, poetry, comics and movies all have plenty of ( ).
1. purity 2. metaphors 3. stories 4. valuables
(5) Even when Ray Bradbury was young, he wanted to ( ) movies.
1. criticize 2. act in 3. direct 4. write for
(6) When asked about what he thought of the film adaptations of some of his works. Ray Bradbury said that he ( ).
1. liked some of them, but disliked others
2. loved them all, except for Something Wicked This Way Comes
3. hated them all, except for The Illustrated Man.
4. avoided watching them so that he would not get angry
(7) According to Bradbury, between the middle of the 1930s and the middle of
the 1940s, there were ( ).
1. many publishers of fantasy and science fiction
2. fifty or sixty fantasy novels and science fiction novels published each year
3. a maximum of ten fantasy novels and science fiction novels published each year
4. strange tales about authors being paid $50 a story
(8) The works that Ray Bradbury said would be coming up for possible publication in the next year include ( ).
1. a book of essays, two new novels, and a collection of his poetry
2. a few poems. a novel, and several essays
3. new editions of all his novels, about 400 poems. and an essay
4. three novels, a poem, and a small collection of essays
(9) If he could come back in a time machine, Ray Bradbury would like to return to see how ( ).
1. second and third graders were being neglected
2. technological developments were being used in education
3. people were being taken advantage of by technology
4. the small budget for education was increased
(10) Ray Bradbury believes a writer who writes simply to earn money will ( ).
1. sometimes accidentally write something good
2. not be paid any more than $40 per novel
3. learn to love writing more than financial reward
4. not write anything that is worth reading
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