"I wish I could write like that，" she thought. "I want to say something."

　　She wrote her first poem about her first year in America.She called it Invisible. The day her turn came to recite poems in front of the team, she broke down crying. She cried for 15 minutes. "I had so much held in，" Tahay said. "I couldn't even finish it."

　　But she kept at it despite her less­than­perfect grammar, spelling and diction (措辞). Still, she wouldn't tell her friends about her poetry because she worried they would make fun of her.

　　But with time, her poems changed her. "They gave me pride，" Tahay said. "They told me that I'm worth something."

　　"She had this innocence，" Kurnick said. "This willingness to be genuine shows you things you don't ever see."

　　【解题导语】　本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲述了美国学生Vanessa Tahay的故事：她通过自己的努力战胜了别人的嘲笑，并找到了自己的人生价值。

　　1．What did Tahay's mother suggest she do when she was teased by others?

　　A．Fight with them bravely.

　　B．Report them to her teachers.

　　C．Ignore them and keep going.

　　D．Try hard to make friends with them.

　　答案与解析：C　考查细节理解。根据第四段中的"'Keep going，' her mother would tell her"可知，本题答案为C。

　　2．What are the themes of Tahay and her team's poems?

A．Their admiration for the great poets.