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Howard Weistling wanted to be a comic strip artist. But when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, he joined the Army.
After flight engineer training, Howard was shipped off to Europe. On his maiden flight, his plane was shot down over Austria. The entire crew of eight men landed safely. But a farmer found Howard hiding in his barn and turned him over to a prison of war camp in Barth, Germany. It was freezing and the men almost starved to death eating the guards' garbage.
Hungry and homesick Howard coped the only way he knew how. He drew a comic strip. The book, made of cigarette wrappers bound together with scrap metal, was sent around the camp. Every couple of days he would add a new panel. One panel at a time would be passed around the whole camp. And they'd have something to look forward to.
After an entire year of this, they woke one morning to find their guards gone. They fled and Howard finally got to go home. Just lucky to get out alive, he left the book behind.
Back home in California, Howard soon had a wife and kids to feed so he had to set aside his dream of becoming an artist. He took a job as a gardener instead.
Morgan shared his father's artistic gifts. At 15 his parents sent him to art school. And Howard got to see his son become a wellknown painter before he died in 2002. That's how, seven decades after the war, when a stranger in New York googled the name “Weistling”， he found Morgan online.
“I get an email from a gentleman and he says, ‘I think I may have some drawings your father did when he was a POW (prisoner of war) in World War Ⅱ，’” Morgan recalls. “‘Would you like them？’ And I just stared at that email and started crying.”
Luckily Howard had engraved his name on the comic book, which is how the man from New York City had connected with Morgan. A couple of days later when it arrived in California, Morgan couldn't believe it. “It was like getting my father back，” Morgan says. “It was like him being able to tell me the story over again—only this time it was real in my hands.”
1．The passage details Howard's life as a POW to show that ________.
A．war cannot stop his pursuit of success
B．passion for art helped ease his sufferings
C．loss of freedom encouraged his creativity
D．misery drove him to fight against his fate
2．What can we infer about Howard's comic strip in prison?
A．It satisfied prisoners' curiosity.
B．It aroused the guards' sympathy.
C．It was popular among the prisoners.
D．It raised prisoners' confidence in freedom.
3．What contributes to the stranger's success in finding Morgan?
A．The email from a gentleman.
B．Howard's experience in the war.
C．Morgan's recalling of his father.
D．Morgan's status in the field of art.
4．What can we infer about Morgan from the last paragraph?
A．He didn't believe the stranger's story.
B．He was excited to get the comic strip.
C．He couldn't wait to tell others his good news.
D．He hadn't heard about his father's war stories.
