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At the age of sixty-five, Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing a series of novels for young people based on her early experiences on the American frontier. Born in the state of Wisconsin in 1867, she and her family were rugged pioneers. Seeking better farm land, they went by covered wagon to Missouri in 1869, then on to Kansas the next year, resuming to Wisconsin in 1871, and traveling on to Minnesota and Iowa before settling permanently in South Dakota in 1879. Because of this constant moving, Wilder’s early education took place sporadically in a succession of one-room schools. From age thirteen to sixteen, she attended school more regularly, although she never graduated.
At the age of eighteen, she married Almanzo James Wilder. They bought a small farm in the Ozarks, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Their only daughter Rose, who had become a nationally known journalist, encouraged her mother to write. Serving as agent and editor, Rose negotiated with Harper's to publish her mother's first book, Little House in the Big Woods. Seven more books followed, each chronicling her early life on the plains. Written from the perspective of a child, they have remained popular with young readers from many nations. Twenty years after her death in 1957, more than 20 million copies had been sold, and they had been translated into fourteen languages. In 1974, a weekly television series, “Little House on the Prairie,” was produced, based on the stories from the Wilder books.
1. What is the main topic of the passage? (A) American pioneer life
(B) Children's literature
(C) A weekly television series
(D) Wilder's career
2. Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing novels
(A) when she was a child on the frontier
(B) right after she moved to the Ozarks
(C) when she was a young mother
(D) after her sixty-fifth birthday
3. The author mentions all of the following as
events in the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
EXCEPT
(A) She went west by covered wagon.
(B) She graduated from a one-room school.
(C) She married Almanzo Wilder.
(D) She had one daughter.
4. The word "sporadically" in line 5 is closest in
meaning to
(A) with great success
(B) for a long time
(C) at irregular intervals
(D) in a very efficient way
5. The word "they" in line 12 refers to
(A) the plains
(B) many nations
(C) more books
(D) young readers