Author Walter Dean Myers died at the age of 76 after a brief illness.Walter Dean Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults and received many top awards.
   The prolific author was loved for his vivid description of the lives of African American children，and for writing books for young people that covered difficult subjects like war and violence. "Drugs，drive-by shootings，wasted lives - Myers has written about all these subjects with deep understanding and a hard-won，qualified sense of hope，" said Leonard S.Marcus in 2008.
   He was born in 1937 and was adopted by Florence Dean and Herbert after his mother died when he was 18 months old They loved him very much and his mother read to him from a very young age Reading pushed him to discover worlds beyond his landscape.
   He began writing at an early age.He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him. "It's what you do，" she said.
   He dropped out of high school at 17 and joined the army.After finishing his service，he entered a dark period in his life.Myers began writing at night to pull himself through that miserable time.
   In a New York Times essay published earlier this year，Myers described how a short story by James Baldwin helped change the course of his life. "I didn't love the story，but I was lifted by it，" he wrote，"for it took place in Harlem，and it was a story concerned with black people like those I knew.By humanizing the people who were like me.Baldwin's story also humanized me.The story gave me a permission that I didn't know I needed，the permission to write about my own landscape，my own map."
   "I write books or the troubled boy I once was，" he wrote，"and for the boy who lives within me still."

（1）What does the second paragraph mainly talk about？

C

C

A．How popular Myers was.
B．How Myers became successful.
C．What makes Myers' works popular.
D．What people think of Myers' works.
（2）Who discovered Myers' writing talent？

D

D

A．James Baldwin
B．His mother.
C．Leonard S.Marcus.
D．One of his teachers.
（3）What does the underlined word "prolific" in Paragraph 2 probably mean？

A

A

A．Productive.
B．Unfortunate.
C．Conservative.
D．Humorous.
（4）Why was the short story by James Baldwin so important for Myers？

B

B

A．It helped him survive the dark period.
B．It inspired him to pursue his writing career.
C．He learned many writing techniques from it.
D．The author of the story permitted him to write.