阅读理解
Suzie goes to her art class on Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons. She always looks forward to those days when she can do creative things
all afternoon. She loves making bowls and cups out of clay(粘土).
Last month she learned to put pottery(陶器) into a hot oven（炉子）, called a kiln, to make
it hard and strong. What Suzie likes best about art is the good feeling she gets
when she has finished working on a piece of art. And then when she takes it home
to show her parents she feels so proud of what she has made.
On Wednesday Suzie wrote an article about why
she thought the school should have two short breaks a day rather than one long break.
Lots of her friends thought that this would be a good idea too. Many teachers also
agreed with Suzie's suggestion.
The head teacher of the school asked everyone
in the school to vote(表决)on Suzie's suggestion. During
the vote, each person in the school had one vote. Together, the school decided that
two short breaks would be better than one long break. All of this happened because
Suzie wrote about her idea in the school newspaper.
On the day the newspaper comes out, the first
thing Suzie does is to check where her article is in the newspaper. And each month,
at the beginning of her article, are the words: By Suzanne Jefferson.
On the way home from school yesterday, Suzie
got to think about how much art and writing are the same. In art class she thinks
of creative things to make, and then spends a lot of time making it look just right.
And when she writes articles for the school
newspaper, she thinks of creative things to say, and then spends a lot of time making
it sound just right. And when she has finished writing a really good
sentence, she feels almost as if she has made a beautiful piece of art.
Suzie rushed home so she could write something
shortly before dinner. She already had lots of ideas for next month's newspaper.
And she wanted to make sure that none of her creative ideas floated away before
she wrote them down on paper
