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【題目】 If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls; and dark-colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys. Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys. In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.

Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls. Sue Palmer, writer of Toxic Childhood, is very worried that most girls over the age of three are captivated about the color. According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons. Firstly, most companies offer too many products in pink. Also, many parents think their little daughter looks cute in pink. Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can affect (影響) the choices and the decisions they will make in the future.

Some parents are worried, too, for example, Vanessa Holburn, thirty-two, who has two girls under the age of four. Their bedrooms are a sea of pink and Vanessa is not happy. “Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I’m worried that pink will not help them with that,” she says.

But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink. Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn’t worried at all. “People forget that things change all the time,” he says. “My girls used to love pink when they were little, but as they get older, they change.” Turner explains that his twelve-year-old daughter never wears pink clothes anymore. “This love of pink is just a fashion and all fashions change,” he adds. “It’s only since the 1940s that people have stated dressing girls — — in pink before that it was a color for boys.”

【1】Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

A.B.C.D.

【2】The underlined phrase “are captivated about ” in Paragraph 2 probably means .

A.are afraid ofB.are tired of

C.are crazy aboutD.are nervous about

【3】According to Grayson Turner, .

A.all little kids love the color pink

B.his girls now prefer the color blue

C.pink has always been a color for girls

D.parents needn’t worry about pink toys

【4】The purpose of this passage is to .

A.explain why girls are crazy about the color pink

B.make parents less worried about the color pink

C.encourage girls to give up playing with pink toys

D.show people’s different opinions about the color pink

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】D

【解析】

在給孩子買(mǎi)玩具或者衣服的時(shí)候，我們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)很多女孩的玩具或衣服都是粉色的，而男孩的是藍(lán)色的。但現(xiàn)在一些人擔(dān)心太多的粉色對(duì)女孩是不好的，對(duì)于這個(gè)問(wèn)題不同的家長(zhǎng)有不同的看法。

【1】

篇章結(jié)構(gòu)題。根據(jù)第一段中“In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.”可知，第一段提出女孩子的玩具或衣服很多都是粉色的；根據(jù)第二段中“Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls.”和第三段中“Some parents are worried…”可知，第二段和第三段提出一些人認(rèn)為太多粉色對(duì)女孩不好；根據(jù)第四段中“But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink.”可知，第四段提出相反的觀點(diǎn)，覺(jué)得粉色沒(méi)有什么不好，由此可知結(jié)構(gòu)為--。故選B。

【2】

詞意猜測(cè)題。are afraid of對(duì)……感到害怕；are tired of對(duì)……感到厭倦；are crazy about對(duì)……感到癡迷；are nervous about對(duì)……感到擔(dān)憂(yōu)。根據(jù)第二段中“Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can affect (影響) the choices and the decisions they will make in the future.”可知，這個(gè)年紀(jì)的女孩子不能獨(dú)自做出正確的決定，但是如果粉色過(guò)度使用，女孩子們會(huì)對(duì)粉色感到癡迷，以至于影響她們未來(lái)的選擇和決定，所以劃線部分are captivated about與are crazy about意思相同。故選C。

【3】

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第四段“But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink. Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn’t worried at all.”可知，Turner不覺(jué)得粉色有什么不好的，他覺(jué)得家長(zhǎng)們不必為此擔(dān)心。故應(yīng)選D。

【4】

主旨大意題。根據(jù)短文第二段中“Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls.”和第三段中“Some parents are worried,too.”以及第四段中“But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink.”可知，這篇短文介紹了人們對(duì)粉色對(duì)孩子的影響的不同看法。故選D。