Question

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____.

A．repeated without any change              B．treated as a joke

C．made some changes by the parent          D．set in the present

2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ____.

A．in a realistic setting                      B．heard for the first time

C．repeated too often                      D．told in a different way

3.The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.

A．makes them less fearful

B．develops their power of memory

C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4.The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.

A．fairy stories are still being made up

B．there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C．people try to modernize old fairy stories

D．there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

5.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A．they are full of imagination

B．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

C．they are not interesting

D．they make teachers of history difficult to teach

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.B

5.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文是一篇議論文，是作者對于給孩子講故事的看法。作者認(rèn)為給孩子講經(jīng)過父母改編的故事，對孩子是有好處的。

1.C 推理題。根據(jù)文章第一段if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.說明C項正確。

2.B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once.說明是第一次聽的時候就有了恐懼。故B正確。

3.A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段最后一句Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.說明這樣做會讓他們不是那么害怕。故A正確。

4.B 推理題。從第三段“I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.“一句可知作者并不贊同那些認(rèn)為童話故事不現(xiàn)實，應(yīng)該讓孩子了解現(xiàn)實的說法。

5.B推理題。從第三段“---and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history.”一句可知很多人認(rèn)為童話故事里都是虛構(gòu)的人物或動物等，應(yīng)該讓孩子通過學(xué)習(xí)歷史來了解現(xiàn)實。

【考點(diǎn)定位】考查推理判斷能力。

考點(diǎn)：考查教育類短文閱讀

點(diǎn)評：本文討論的是給孩子講故事的好處，要求考生在閱讀理解整體語篇的基礎(chǔ)上，把握文章的真正內(nèi)涵。要吃透文章的字面意思，從字里行間捕捉有用的提示和線索，這是推理的前提和基礎(chǔ);要對文字的表面信息進(jìn)行挖掘加工，由表入里，由淺入深，從具體到抽象，從非凡到一般，通過分析、綜合、判定等，進(jìn)行深層處理，符合邏輯地推理。不能就是論事，斷章取義，以偏概全。要忠實于原文，以文章提供的事實和線索為依據(jù)。