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Module 3 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2016·河南安阳一中高三三模) In a room at Texas Children Cancer Center in Houston, eight－year－old Simran Jatar lay in bed with a drip (点滴) above her to fight her bone cancer. Over her bald head, she wore a pink hat that matched her clothes. But the third grader's cheery dressing didn't mask her pain and weary eyes. Then a visitor showed up. “Do you want to write a song？” asked Anita Kruse, 49, rolling a cart equipped with an electronic keyboard, a microphone and speakers. Simran stared. “Have you ever written a poem？” Anita Kruse continued. “Well, yes，” Simran said. Within minutes, Simran was reading her poem into the microphone “Some bird soaring through the sky，” she said softly. “Imagination in its head...” Anita Kruse added piano music, a few warbling (鸣，唱) birds, and finally the girl's voice. Thirty minutes later, she presented Simran with a CD of her first recorded song. That was the beginning of Anita Kruse's project, Purple Songs Can Fly, one that has helped more than 125 young patients write and record songs. As a composer and pianist who had performed at the hospital, Kruse said that the idea of how she could help “came in one flash”． The effect on the kids has been great. One teenage girl, curling (蜷缩) in pain in her wheelchair, stood unaided to dance to a hip－hop song she had written. A 12－year－old boy with Hodgkin's disease who rarely spoke surprised his doctors with a song he called I Can Make It. | 
