2013年高考英语适应性训练之阅读理解11
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Generations of children grew up reading comic(漫画）books secretly, hiding out from parents and teachers who saw them as a waste of time and a risk to young minds. Comics are now gaining a new respectability at school. That is thanks to an increasingly popular and creative program, often aimed at struggling readers, that encourages children to plot, write and draw comic books, in many cases using themes from their own lives.
The Comic Book Project was started in 2001 by Michael Bitz at an elementary school in Queens. Since its creation, the program, which is mainly conducted after school, has spread to more than 850 schools across the country It has gotten a big push from the Canent craze（狂热）among adolescents for comic book clubs and for Manga, a wildly popular variety of comic originating in Japan.
