Question

【題目】Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story _____their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a _____children’s book. Either the writer has aimed too _____, so that children can’t follow what is in his (or more often, her) story, ____ the story seems to be talking to the readers.

The best children’s books should be _____very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the _____who hears the story and the adult who_____ it. Unfortunately(不幸的是), there are in fact few books like this,_____ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not _____ to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as _____of children’s literature were in fact written for ________ ― “Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious of this.

Children, left for themselves, often _____ the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a _____ and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative way, or have a look at the most children’s comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the rejections of teachers and righting-thinking parents.

Perhaps we parents should stop _____ to brainwash(洗腦)children into accepting our taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so _____that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise(妥協(xié))over the bedtime story.

【1】A. toB. inC. withD. around

【2】A. shortB. longC. badD. good

【3】A. easyB. shortC. highD. difficult

【4】A. andB. butC. orD. so

【5】A. bothB. neitherC. eitherD. very

【6】A. childB. fatherC. motherD. teacher

【7】A. hearsB. buysC. understandsD. reads

【8】A. butB. howeverC. soD. because

【9】A. hardB. easyC. enoughD. fast

【10】A. articlesB. workC. artsD. works

【11】A. grown-upsB. girlsC. boysD. children

【12】A. areB. showC. findD. add

【13】A. schoolB. homeC. officeD. library

【14】A. goingB. likingC. tryingD. preferring

【15】A. sameB. friendlyC. differentD. common

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】C

【4】C

【5】B

【6】A

【7】D

【8】C

【9】B

【10】B

【11】A

【12】A

【13】B

【14】D

【15】C

【解析】

短文大意：本文關(guān)注的是兒童讀物問(wèn)題。大多數(shù)家長(zhǎng)都曾經(jīng)有過(guò)給孩子們睡覺(jué)前講故事的經(jīng)歷，并且都意識(shí)到選一本適合孩子的書(shū)是多么的不容易，兒童讀物的作者要么立意過(guò)高，超過(guò)了孩子們的理解范圍，要么只適合成人閱讀，反映出兒童和成人世界的不同，提出應(yīng)該在睡前故事中妥協(xié)的觀點(diǎn)。

【1】句意：我想，大多數(shù)父母都有和孩子一起閱讀睡前故事的經(jīng)歷�？疾榻樵~辨析題。with their children做后置定語(yǔ)，with表伴隨；根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知選C。

【2】句意：他們一定意識(shí)到寫(xiě)一本好的兒童讀物是多么困難。考查形容詞辨析題。A. short短的；B. long長(zhǎng)的；C. bad壞的；D. good好的。根據(jù)how difficult it is，結(jié)合句意語(yǔ)境，可知good合乎句意，故選D。

【3】句意：要么作者的目標(biāo)太高，以至于孩子們聽(tīng)不懂他的故事，要么這個(gè)故事似乎在和讀者交談�？疾樾稳菰~辨析題。A. easy容易的；B. short矮的；C. high高的；D. difficult困難的。aim瞄準(zhǔn)，根據(jù)下文so that children can’t follow what is in his story,，可知high符合句意，故選C。

【4】句意：要么作者的目標(biāo)太高，以至于孩子們聽(tīng)不懂他的故事，要么這個(gè)故事似乎在和讀者交談�？疾檫B詞辨析題。either…or表示兩者擇一的，固定表達(dá)；根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知選C。

【5】句意：最好的兒童讀物既不難也不簡(jiǎn)單，能使聽(tīng)故事的孩子和讀故事的成年人滿意。考查連詞辨析題。neither…nor，既不……也不，固定結(jié)構(gòu)；根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知選B。

【6】句意：最好的兒童讀物既不難也不簡(jiǎn)單，能使聽(tīng)故事的孩子和讀故事的成年人滿意�？疾槊�詞辨析題。and連接并列結(jié)構(gòu)，根據(jù)下文and the adult who reads it.，可知前面敘述的是兒童的情況，故選A。

【7】句意：最好的兒童讀物既不難也不簡(jiǎn)單，能使聽(tīng)故事的孩子和讀故事的成年人滿意。考查動(dòng)詞辨析題。根據(jù)上文the child who hears the story，結(jié)合句意語(yǔ)境，可知read符合句意，故選D。

【8】句意：不幸的是，事實(shí)上很少有這樣的書(shū)，所以找到正確的睡前故事的問(wèn)題是不容易解決的�？疾檫B詞辨析題。A. but但是，表轉(zhuǎn)折；B. however然而，用于轉(zhuǎn)折；C. so所以，表因果（前因后果式）；D. because因?yàn)�，表原因，前果后因式。本句是結(jié)果狀語(yǔ)從句，需用so連接；根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知選C。

【9】句意：不幸的是，事實(shí)上很少有這樣的書(shū)，所以找到正確的睡前故事的問(wèn)題是不容易解決的。考查形容詞辨析題。A. hard難的；B. easy簡(jiǎn)單的；C. enough足夠的 ；D. fast快的。not表否定，根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知easy符合句意，故選B。

【10】句意：這也許就是為什么許多被認(rèn)為是兒童文學(xué)作品的書(shū)實(shí)際上是為成年人寫(xiě)的�？疾槊�詞辨析題。work of children’s literature兒童文學(xué)作品，work需用單數(shù)，固定詞組；根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知選B。

【11】句意：這也許就是為什么許多被認(rèn)為是兒童文學(xué)作品的書(shū)實(shí)際上是為成年人寫(xiě)的。考查名詞辨析題。根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知girls、 boys和 children都和句意重復(fù)，grown-ups成年人，故選A。

【12】句意：為自己留下的兒童往往是對(duì)文學(xué)最不感興趣的人。考查動(dòng)詞辨析題。be interest in對(duì)…有興趣；主語(yǔ)Children是復(fù)數(shù)人稱，系詞需用are；根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知選A。

【13】句意：只是把孩子留在書(shū)店或家中，他會(huì)更樂(lè)意選擇那些缺乏想象力的書(shū)。考查名詞辨析題。A. school學(xué)校；B. home家；C. office辦公室；D. library圖書(shū)館。and連接并列結(jié)構(gòu)，根據(jù)in a bookshop，可知in a home符合句意，故選B。

【14】句意：也許我們的父母應(yīng)該停止洗腦，讓孩子接受我們對(duì)文學(xué)的喜愛(ài)�？疾閯�(dòng)詞辨析題。go/like/try to do，意為“去/喜歡/努力做某事”；prefer to更喜歡；根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知prefer to brainwash children更符合父母的做法，故選D。

【15】句意：畢竟，兒童和成人是如此不同，我們父母不應(yīng)該期望他們會(huì)喜歡相同的書(shū)籍。考查形容詞辨析題。A. same相同的；B. friendly友好的；C. different不同的；D. common普通的。根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，結(jié)合句意語(yǔ)境，可知成人和兒童的想法大不一樣，故選C。