第二部分六、文意選填10% (請將答案代號填寫於答案卷上)Picture books are an 1 part of childhood. Some popular picture books have become modern classics. One such book is Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Bernard Sendak, an 2 American illustrator who has been writing and illustrating children’s books since 1947. In just eighteen beautifully illustrated pages and 388 words, Sendak 3 the imagination of readers young and old with this charming tale about a common childhood experience.Published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are 4 the reader inside the mind of a child. The setting of the story is a boy, named Max, who has been sent to his room by his mother without any dinner as punishment. Max expresses his anger in an imaginative 5 in which he sails to a strange landscape full of scary “wild things.” Max soon realizes that he can tame the oversized monsters just by looking at them. When they discover that Max is “the most wild thing of all,” they 6 him their king. After having some fun, Max sends them to bed and returns to his room7 he finds his dinner waiting for him, still warm. When the book was first published, Sendak’s use of three double pages of illustrations without text to tell the main part of the story was viewed 8 unusual. It was also considered unique in the 9 that it ingeniously explored complex themes, such as how children deal with the conflicting feelings of anger and love toward their parents. It is these deeper levels of meaning which explain 10 this picture book has become popular around the world, not just with children but with adults too.
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