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1、新闻中提到了斯坦李的哪些作品？

2、斯坦李创作的超级英雄有哪些特点？

3、讲解中有哪些单词可以表示“完美的，无瑕的”

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Stan Lee obituary

The comic book writer Stan Lee,?who has died aged 95,revolutionised his industry in the 1960s,when he created the mythic figures（神话人物） that are still inspiring new generations to flock to the cinema. Lee’s creations the X-Men,the Fantastic Four,most of the Avengers (Hulk,Iron Man,Thor),Daredevil and Doctor Strange – helped to rescue the costumed superhero from obscurity（没有名气，默默无闻） and to usher in the silver age of American comic books.

But it was a radioactive（辐射的） spider that was responsible for Lee’s most popular creation. To many,?Spider-Man?was not about fighting malformed（畸形的） or transmuted（变异的） enemies such as the Green Goblin or the Lizard but about Peter Parker,a shy,bullied young boy with a crush on a beautiful girl from his school but who lacks the confidence to ask her out.

Lee was finally allowed to give his characters flaws（人物缺陷） and,where superheroes had previously immediately embraced their powers,his heroes were often reluctant（不情愿）. Lee gave his characters voices（风格）,with pithy（语言，简短有力的） catchphrases（名言） – “Flame on!”,“Hulk smash!”,“It’s clobberin’ time!” – and pages littered with thought balloons out of which would grow some truth that the hero needed to learn,not the least of（颇为重要） which was Peter Parker’s: “With great power there must also come great responsibility.”

In a 1965 Esquire poll（投票）,Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk were ranked alongside Bob Dylan and Che Guevara as the favourite revolutionary icons among college students. Lee once said: “Our goal is that someday an intelligent adult? would not be embarrassed to walk down the street with a comic magazine. I don’t know whether we can ever bring this off,but it’s something to shoot for（力争达到）.”

重点词汇

revolutionised sth：v，是。。发生革命性的巨变，

mythic：虚构的，神话的

flock to：蜂拥而至，成群结队的前往某个地方

rescue someone from sth：将某人从某事中拯救出来

usher in：开创某个时代

be responsible for sth：为某一件事负责；将某事归功于某人、

have a crush on someone 指短暂但强烈的爱慕之情

flewless：毫无缺陷

clobber：v，胖揍一顿

be?littered with sth：充斥着，充满着