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【題目】As any parent knows too well, sometimes a little white lie is the only way to make a naughty child quiet. Indeed, parents have shared the top white lies they’ve told their children. While some of them are amusing, others are somewhat cruel.

“Father Christmas is watching you,” “Carrots will make you see in the dark” and “Your pet has gone to live on a farm” are among the top white lies parents tell their children. The top 20 list of little lies that adults use shows that four in five parents have told their children something that isn’t true. The threat of Father Christmas is on the top, with 62 percent of parents employing St. Nick to keep their kids under control. The second on the list is: “We’ll see”, which any little one knows really means “no”.

The majority of British people say that they lie to their children to protect their innocence, to save them from being upset or to stop them behaving badly. The top white lie told to kids about their pets is “your pet has to live on a farm in the countryside”, which is employed after one dies or has gone missing. On average, parents think that children are ready to start learning about death at the age of seven and a half.

One 62-year-old recalled that when he was four, his cat ran away, because it kept having its tail pulled. It was 53 years later that it was revealed that the cat had actually been given away to stop it from scratching the furniture. One respondent (應答者) said that he still remembered that when he was young, he believed his father’s statement that the entire world used to be in black and white before colour photography came along.

Forty percent of parents say that they would definitely lie to their children to keep up their belief in Father Christmas, and over all say they’d certainly tell the truth about a pet dying. However, one in ten parents say they’ve replaced their children’s dead pet with a one looking the same to cheat their children into believing it was still alive and well, found the study by Blue Cross pet charity.

【1】The threat of Father Christmas which is used to control children shows that .

A. some children fear and respect Father Christmas

B. Father Christmas is more important than parents

C. children should learn more about festivals

D. Father Christmas does live in the world

【2】What can we conclude from Paragraph 4?

A. Children don’t understand why their parents tell white lies.

B. Parents’ white lies may do harm to their children.

C. Children don’t really mind their parents’ white lies.

D. Parents’ white lies may leave a deep impression on their children

【3】What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. Parents’ different understandings of while lies.

B. Parents’ different attitudes to telling white lies.

C. Parents’ different worries about white lies.

D. Parents’ different white lies.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】A

【3】B

【解析】文章分析了父母在孩子兒時說的善意的謊言的內(nèi)容、作用、對孩子的深遠影響和現(xiàn)在父母對此不同的態(tài)度。

【1】A推理判斷題。許多父母用“Father Christmas is watching you,”來使淘氣的孩子變安靜，并且一直延用有效，表明一些孩子從內(nèi)心害怕和崇敬圣誕老人，故選A。

【2】A推理判斷題。第四段的例子說明：一個62歲的老人回憶父母在他4歲時說的謊言，他53年后才知道了事情的真相；另一個例子孩子小時候，父親告訴他世界完全是黑白色的，直到彩色照片出現(xiàn)前他一直以為父親說的是對的。這兩個例子說明父母的謊言會給孩子留下很深的印象，故選A。

【3】B主旨大意題。根據(jù)最后一段Forty percent of parents say that they would definitely lie to their children to keep up their belief…, over half say they’d certainly tell the truth和one in ten parents say they’ve replaced their children’s dead pet…可知，本段主要講述父母對善意謊言的不同態(tài)度，故選B。