(完整)高中英语阅读理解及答案详解
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高中英语阅读理解及答案详解 4
A
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