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【題目】Neil Gaiman is an English author of lots of science fiction and fantasy works.【1】His argument is that children shouldn’t be discouraged from reading what adults may think of as bad books. He is dead right.

A child in a library is an explorer venturing into a land where he has no map to guide him. This is part of the excitement. Everything is new.【2】His taste is yet unformed, and it cannot be formed until he has tried a variety of thing.

Not knowing what books are good or bad, an eager child will try very different things. 【3】At the age of eleven or twelve, I still read Enid Blyton Stevenson’s Kidnapped, was happily terrified by ghost stories and desperately wanted to be Rupert of Hentzau, a most attractive evil character in literature.

A child reads for enjoyment from all sorts of books. I can’t remember when I stopped reading comics like the Wizard and Hotspur, but I’m pretty sure that my reading of them continued even while I was delighted in Sherlock Holmes or in the short stories of HG Wells.

【4】 Never say “Don’t read that rubbish” or “You’re too young for that”. If he is really too young and the book is beyond him, he’ll put it aside. If he doesn’t, then he’s not too young, even if he misses much that an adult reader would find in it.

The only useful thing an adult can do is to give a child a book and say, “I think you might enjoy this.” Don’t complain if he doesn’t like it and turns to something that you think is bad. 【5】

A. Anything he reads may be attractive，too.

B. Everybody has a secret world inside of themselves.

C. For the young reader even a bad book has its own value.

D. Adults should be careful in what they say to a child about his reading.

E. Almost everyone who reads widely as an adult has read wildly as a child.

F. The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

G. He is also a productive blogger and the point he gave in one of his blogs surely makes sense.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】A

【3】E

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】本文介紹英國(guó)科幻作家和多產(chǎn)博客作者Neil Gaiman，他闡述了成年人應(yīng)該如何看待孩子們閱讀的書。因?yàn)?/span>“對(duì)年輕讀者來(lái)說(shuō)，即使是一本糟糕的書也有其自身的價(jià)值。”

【1】G

根據(jù)上句：Neil Gaiman是一位寫了許多科幻小說(shuō)和幻想作品的英國(guó)作家。G項(xiàng)中的also是關(guān)鍵詞，說(shuō)明他也是一位多產(chǎn)的博客作者。故選G。

【2】A

根據(jù)上句：一切都是新的。再根據(jù)下句：他的品味尚未成形。可知，他讀的任何東西也都很可能吸引人。故選A。

【3】E

根據(jù)上句：不知道什么書是好的還是壞的，一個(gè)熱切的孩子會(huì)嘗試不同的東西。由此可推知，幾乎每個(gè)廣泛閱讀的成年人作為一個(gè)孩子時(shí)就已經(jīng)瘋狂地閱讀。故選E。

【4】D

根據(jù)下文：從來(lái)不要說(shuō)---。never從來(lái)沒(méi)有，在此處是關(guān)鍵詞�？芍�，成年人對(duì)孩子說(shuō)的話要小心。故選D。

【5】C

根據(jù)上句：如果他不喜歡這本書，而是轉(zhuǎn)向你認(rèn)為不好的東西，不要抱怨。因?yàn)?/span>“對(duì)年輕讀者來(lái)說(shuō)，即使是一本糟糕的書也有其自身的價(jià)值。”故選C。

做七選五時(shí)，“當(dāng)心文中小also”，also是“也”的意思，這就說(shuō)明前文一定存在它的一個(gè)分支了，這樣的例子比比皆是：前文交代“It helps you practice what you have learnt during the day and establish study habits that will be important in college ”雖然看上去很長(zhǎng)的一句話，從句就有兩個(gè)，但是重點(diǎn)就三個(gè)單詞“It helps you”，此時(shí)在空中填上“It can also help you prepare for your classes and get a sense of progress.”，（關(guān)鍵詞It can also help you）這樣一對(duì)應(yīng)就很工整了。當(dāng)然“also”只是一個(gè)代表罷了，可以表示遞進(jìn)的詞還有很多：what’ more, besides, in addition等等。本題第1小題，根據(jù)上句：Neil Gaiman是一位寫了許多科幻小說(shuō)和幻想作品的英國(guó)作家。G項(xiàng)中的also是關(guān)鍵詞，說(shuō)明他也是一位多產(chǎn)的博客作者。故選G。