Question

In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition which she won last year.
As a writer, I know about winning contests – and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection letter from the publisher. I also know the pressure of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and destroyed hopes can resurface in our children.
A revelation (啟示) came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.”
I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously (自發(fā)地) told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it.
Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting my daughter’s experience.
While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked. All the while I will be reminding myself that children need room to experiment, grow and find their own voices

1. 1.
   What do we learn from the first paragraph?
   1. A.
      A lot of amusements compete for children’s time nowadays
   2. B.
      Children have lots of fun doing mindless activities
   3. C.
      Rebecca is much too busy to enjoy her leisure time
   4. D.
      Rebecca draws on a lot of online materials for her writing
2. 2.
   What did the author say about her own writing experience?
   1. A.
      She was constantly under pressure to write more
   2. B.
      Most of her stories had been rejected by publishers
   3. C.
      She did not quite live up to her reputation as a writer
   4. D.
      Her road to success was full of pain and frustrations
3. 3.
   Why did Rebecca want to enter this year’s writing contest?
   1. A.
      She believed she possessed real talent for writing
   2. B.
      She was sure of winning with her mother’s help
   3. C.
      She wanted to share her stories with readers
   4. D.
      She had won a prize in the previous contest
4. 4.
   The underlined sentence probably means that the author was ______.
   1. A.
      trying not to let her daughter enjoy her own life
   2. B.
      trying to get her daughter to do the thing as the author wished
   3. C.
      making sure that her daughter would win the contest
   4. D.
      helping her daughter develop real skills for writing

Answer 1

ADCB
試題分析：本文講述了作者是個(gè)作家，她女兒也很喜歡寫故事。作者極力的要求女孩按照自己的意志來寫故事，最后作者意識(shí)到孩子們需要空間自己去經(jīng)歷事情，自己去成長(zhǎng)，去發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的聲音。
1.細(xì)節(jié)題。從In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. 可知現(xiàn)在有很多的供娛樂的游戲來給孩子們來玩，而作者的女兒卻喜歡寫故事，故選A
2.推斷題。從第二自然段So many of our own past scars and destroyed hopes can resurface in our children.可知，作者的成功之路是充滿挫折和痛苦的，她自己的孩子也許也要經(jīng)歷這些事情，故選D
3.細(xì)節(jié)題。從I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.可知，女兒并非想要贏得這場(chǎng)比賽，而只是想告訴讀者們她所寫的故事，故選C
4.細(xì)節(jié)題。從The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson.可知作者將女兒所寫的內(nèi)容完全的改變了，變成了一個(gè)想象力豐富的小女孩第一次上音樂課的場(chǎng)景，所以作者將自己的想法強(qiáng)加給了孩子，希望孩子按她的思路來寫，故選B
考點(diǎn)：人生百味類議論文
點(diǎn)評(píng)：文章重在理解作者的感情基調(diào)，從全文來看，本文在講應(yīng)該給孩子們更多的空間去思索，而不能按照大人的意志去生活，由此可見對(duì)于議論文的文章重在把握作者的感情色彩，答題時(shí)不斷提醒自己作者在講什么，作者的是在褒義還是在貶斥，這一點(diǎn)非常重要。