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Reading help Haiti children through quake trauma

When the first story began only a handful of kids sat in the wet ground,l watching and listening intently as a woman read aloud to them in the Port-au-Prince neighbor of Tabarre.

Soon a crowd  of 60 formed as curious chikdren carrying baby siblings were joined by adults, eager for diversion from the tedium that has seettled into Haiti's sprawling camps since the January earthquake.

The scene repeats itself daily in the  15 tent cities where a program called Li Li Li! (Creole for Read Read Read) works to promote literacy and help kids overcome the trauma from a catastrophe that left up to 300,000 dead.

The reader, Natacha Micourt, was an artist until the January 12 quake destroyed her studio and left her trapped under the rubble for two days. Now the 32-year-old painter earns 250 dollars a month as a Li Li Li! reader.(法新社)

篇章結構練習
Fiction is the name we use for stories that are make-believe, such as Harry Potter or Alice in the
Wonderland. __1__ It can be so close to the truth that it seems as real as something that happened to you
this morning. Or, fiction can be as fantastic as the most unbelievable fairy tale.

Not everything in a fictional story has to be made up. __2__ You, of course, are real, and the moon is
real, and many of the things that you could describe, such as the stars, the wind, and the pull of gravity,
would be real. __3__ It would be a trip you took in your imagination.
Nonfiction, on the other hand, is all about true things. __4__ Someone’s biography is nonfiction; so
is your autobiography. So are articles in your local newspaper, and school reports on science. __5__
Imagine writing history about the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, or a report about a high school sports
team. An old proverb says, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Do you think that’s true?

(A) Nothing is made up.
(B) History is nonfiction, too.
(C) But your trip through space would be fiction.
(D) You could write a story in which you fly to the moon.
(E) But fiction isn’t always different from the way things usually are.