高中英语阅读理解及答案详解
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高中英语阅读理解
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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 (出现) 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,
twoheaded 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 (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 York 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.
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
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 printed text, so much the better.
可推知此题答案为C。
答案：C
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
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：B
2．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
解析：细节理解题。根据Familiarity with
the story by repetition turns the pain of fear
into
the pleasure of a fear faced and
mastered.可以得出此答案。
答案：A
3．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
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
girl－friend.可见持
这种观点的人实际上是对神话的一种误解。
答案：B
4．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
解析：推理判断题。根据．..not objectively true, do not
exist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：B
B
Very old people do raise moral
problems for almost everyone who comes in contact
with
them. Their values — this can't be
repeated too often — are not necessarily our
values. Physical
comfort, cleanness and order
are not necessarily the most important things. The
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 they 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 is 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 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 can't ask
doctors or scientists to decide,
because so long as they can see the technical
opportunities, they
will feel bound to give
them a try, on the principle that while there's
life, there's 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.
5．What does the
passage mainly tell us
A．The values are
different between the old and the young.
B．The
moral problems raised by old people.
C．The
personal freedom for the old.
D．Old people's
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 B。
答案：B
6．We can know from
the first paragraph that ________.
A．Very old
people would like to live alone to have more
personal freedom.
B．Very old people are able
to keep their room clean.
C．Very old people
like to live with their children.
D．Social
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：A
7．According to the
author, which of the following is right
A．The
older a person, the more care he needs.
B．Too
much emphasis has been put on old people's values.
C．The human body can't be compared to a car.
D．It 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：A
8．The
underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers
to “________”．
A．their money or their health
B．the conclusion you come to
C．your talk
to the old people
D．whether 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