Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children’s books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit.

Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain. His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked for an oil company.

In 1939 Roald became a pilot, but he had a bad accident. It made him limp(瘸的) for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine.

Roald married an American film star. They bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, : Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt. Olivia, one of Roald’s daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better.

Gradually Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old shed(棚) at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair with a wooden board on his lap.

“One of the nice things about being a writer,” he once said, “is that all you need is what you’ve got in your head and a pencil and a bit of paper.”

In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox.

After he died in 1990, Roald left money to help people with serious illnesses and those with problems with reading and writing.

1.Roald Dahl was famous as a (an) .

A. doctor B. teacher C. actor D. writer

2.After Roald went to America, he .

A. lost his parents in a plane accident

B. wrote a story about his pilot experience

C. got married with an English film star

D. won a big prize for his book Matilda

3.Which of the following is the best for the blank in Paragraph 4?

A. they lived a happy life

B. three terrible things happened

C. he went on writing books

D. he created some unlucky characters

4.What Roald said in Paragraph 6 mainly shows that .

A. being a writer was a popular job at that time

B. one needs to practice a lot if he wants to be a writer

C. Roald loved writing very much and was talented in it

D. though he was successful, Roald lived a simple life

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