专题限时训练(二十八) [人物型阅读理解]
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Kareem AbdulJabbar was one of the best basketball players in history. He was the NBA's most valuable player six times and a 19time AllStar. When he retired in 1989, he was the NBA's alltime leading scorer with 38,387 points. That record has still to be broken.
After retirement, Jabbar began scoring in the literary world. He has written seven bestselling books. In his new children's book What Color Is My World?,he shines_the_spotlight_on AfricanAmerican inventors whose achievements often went unnoticed. A reporter recently interviewed him in New York City.
R: The title of your new book is What Color Is My World?, but the subtitle is The Lost History of AfricanAmerican Inventors. Why do you say it's a lost history?
K: AfricanAmerican inventors made some very significant contributions to American life and world culture,