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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上高中英语阅读理解及答案详解 4 AA 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 pa

2、rent 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

3、 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 (出现) from the child having heard the story once. Famili

4、arity 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, twoheaded dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead o

5、f 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 (奇怪的) 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 Y

6、ork to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.1The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when i

7、t is _.Arepeated without any changeBtreated as a jokeCmade some changes by the parentDset in the present解析：细节理解题。根据 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 prin

8、ted text, so much the better. 可推知此题答案为C。答案：C2According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _.Ain a realistic settingBheard for the first timeCrepeated too oftenDtold in a different way解析：细节题。根据this arises (出现) from the child having heard the story once.可推知此题答案为B。答案

9、：B2The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _.Amakes them less fearfulBdevelops their power of memoryCmakes them believe there is nothing to be afraid ofDencourages them not to have strange beliefs解析：细节理解题。根据Familiarity with the story by repetition turns th

10、e pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.可以得出此答案。答案：A3The authors mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _.Afairy stories are still being made upBthere is some misunderstanding about fairy talesCpeople try to modernize old fairy storiesDthere is more concern f

11、or childrens fears nowadays解析：推理判断题。有些人认为神话不现实，都是教孩子一些不存在的东西，会对孩子有不好的影响。作者用虚拟语气作了一个假设，如果这些观点站得住脚的话，可能会出现这样的情况：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 girlfriend.可见持这种观点的

12、人实际上是对神话的一种误解。答案：B4One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _.Athey are full of imaginationBthey just make up the stories which are far from the truthCthey are not interestingDthey make teachers of history difficult to teach解析：推理判断题。根据.not objectively true, do not e

13、xist可知有些人不赞成神话故事的原因是这些故事是编出来的，远离现实。故选B。答案：BBVery old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes in contact with them. Their values this cant be repeated too often are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important things. Th

14、e social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with decaying food covered by small worms, and an old person lying alone in bed, taking no notice of the worms. But is it interfering (干涉) with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that t

15、hey might be taken better care of? Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old.Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body i

16、s like a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance (机械维修，保养) as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results will be. And at what point should you stop to treat the

17、old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by seeking the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cant ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, the

18、y will feel bound to give them a try, on the principle that while theres life, theres hope.When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun.5What does the pas

19、sage mainly tell us?AThe values are different between the old and the young.BThe moral problems raised by old people.CThe personal freedom for the old.DOld peoples viewpoint on life.解析：主旨大意题。根据文章第1句 Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes in contact with them及全文内容可知，答案选

20、 B。答案：B6We can know from the first paragraph that _.AVery old people would like to live alone to have more personal freedom.BVery old people are able to keep their room clean.CVery old people like to live with their children.DSocial services have nothing to do with very old people.解析：推理判断题。根据文章第1段最后

21、几句 Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old可知，答案选 A。答案：A7According to the author, which of the following is right?AThe older a perso

22、n, the more care he needs.BToo much emphasis has been put on old peoples values.CThe human body cant be compared to a car.DIt is easy to provide spare parts for old people.解析：推理判断题。根据文章第2段第2句 The body is like a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance as it gets older可知，答案选 A。答案：A8The underlined wo

23、rd “it” in the last paragraph refers to “_”Atheir money or their healthBthe conclusion you come toCyour talk to the old peopleDwhether age is happy or unpleasant解析：词义猜测题。根据文章最后一句 you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun可知，答案选 D。答案：D专心-专注-专业