SAT备考资料：ESSAY写作素材（2）

　　SAT的写作在于平时的积累，考生们可在日常生活中多累积写作的素材，多练笔，培养出好的语感和逻辑，这样就能在考试中写出优秀的作文。为此，综合整理了一系列SAT的ESSAY写作素材，供考生们参考使用。

　　Reeve was real-life;Superman; Although he will always be remembered for portraying Superman, the greatest role of actor Christopher Reeve;s life was as a champion of sufferers of spinal cord injuries and an advocate of stem cell research. Unlike the man of steel, he wasn;t faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and he couldn;t leap tall buildings in a single bound. But the courage and determination Reeve displayed in trying to overcome his paralysis from a 1995 horse-riding accident far surpassed any of the feats of the comic book hero. He became a real-life Superman. His heroism, his courage was extraordinary, Colin Blakemore, the chief executive of Britain;s Medical Research Council said. Like many people who suffer some terrible injury, Christopher Reeve was reinvented by that experience and brought the kind of energy and enthusiasm that made him successful as a film star to an entirely different issue, with huge effect. Reeve, 52, died on October 10 of heart failure after having treatment for an infected pressure wound without realizing his dream of walking again. But in the nine years since his accident, he made personal progress to regain some feeling, established the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, a non-profit research organization, and used his fame to raise millions of dollars for research into spinal cord injuries. He also provided hope and inspiration to other patients and lobbied for scientists to be allowed to conduct stem cell research in the hopes of eventually curing paralysis and other illnesses such as diabetes and Alzheimer;s and Parkinson;s disease. He has been our champion. If you think of spinal injuries you automatically conjure up a picture of Christopher Reeve, said Paul Smith, executive director of the Spinal Injuries Association in England. It is because of Reeve that spinal cord injuries and stem cell research are so widely discussed, according to Smith. The fact that it happened to Reeve showed it can affect anyone, even Superman. Reeve did not live long enough to see whether stem cell research could help restore movement to the paralyzed. The research is still in its early days and no one knows what advances it may bring.