1、语言朋友(90)阅读理解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 wh
2、at, 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 chi
3、ldren 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 repe
4、tition 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 s
5、ide 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 cov
6、ering 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.解题导语：有人认为童话反映的不是现实，孩子们应该多学习历史。作者并不赞同这种观点。1The author considers that a fairy story is more effective wh
7、en it is _Arepeated without any changeBtreated as a jokeCmade some changes by the parentDset in the present解析：细节理解题。根据第一段“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 th
8、e printed text, so much the better.”可知选C。答案：C2According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _ .Ain a realistic setting Bheard for the first timeCrepeated too often Dtold in a different way解析：细节理解题。根据第二段“this arises from the child having heard the story once”可知选B。答案
9、：B3The 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。根据第二段“Familiarity with the story by repetition turns
10、 the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.”可知选A。答案：A4The 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。有些人认为童话不现实，都是教孩子一些不存在的东西，会对孩子有不好的影响。作者则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：这个世界上充满了神经质的人，他们或乘着一根棍子从纽约飞到费城，或者把电话当作女朋友亲吻。然而实际上并没有这样的情况发生，可见持这种观点的人实际上是对童话的一种误解。故选B。答案：B5One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _Athey are full of imag
12、inationBthey just make up the stories which are far from the truthCthey are not interestingDthey make teachers of history difficult to teach解析：细节理解题。根据第三段“they are not objectively true.do not exist”可知有些人不赞成童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书面表达假定你是小明。你最近在全校进行了一项关于“The influence of science and technolog
13、y on our lives”的调查。调查结果如图所示。请根据此图给校英语报投稿，介绍该调查结果。注意：1.词数120左右。2可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。_【参考范文】Recently, in our school a survey has been conducted about the influence of science and technology on our lives.Opinions are divided as follows.17% of the teachers and students surveyed complain that in modern socie
14、ty they are much too stressed, suffering a lot.Now, too many foggy days come and too much pollution arises.Next, 30% produce no clear answers.They are busy with their work and pay little attention to changes around.Thirdly, 53% agree that science and technology improve their lives.Actually, not only do they know what has happened at home and abroad but also they may work anytime and anywhere.To sum up, our society always develops.The part played by science and technology should be acknowledged.Meanwhile, we have to face some problems.