Childhood was an illusion (錯覺）and the illusion was this: everything was bigger. No, I mean everything, not just houses and shops and grown-ups, but colors and flowers and journeys, especially journeys which seemed endless. “Are we there yet, Daddy?”
Funfairs (游樂場） were huge things that spread for miles around you with noise and lights and exciting danger. Rainy days at home when you were ill seemed to last for ever. Being a grown-up yourself was an unthinkable distant possibility. Every sound was louder, every game was grander, every pain unbearable.
As I’ve grown old, life has become smaller. Tastes have dulled. Surprises have turned into shocks. Days go by unnoticed. How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion?
I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them, sometimes helplessly like a child, and then, even though I’m a sixty-one-year-old man, I can almost catch the colors and sounds and stillness of those bigger years when I was little.
小題1:How does the author feel about his childhood?
A．It was endless.B．It was unpleasant.
C．He is glad that it is over.D．He misses it as a grown-up
小題2:The author thinks that everything was bigger in childhood because ________
A．children could not make proper judgments.
B．children were curious and eager about life
C．things appeared really big in children’s eyes
D．to grow up seemed so long for children
小題3:The world seems to have become smaller to the author because _______.
A．life is disappointingB．time goes by too fast
C．he has had too many surprisesD．foods no longer taste delicious
小題4:The author enjoys playing on the stage so as to _______.
A．a(chǎn)ct like a childB．live an unusual life
C．make the crowd laughD．regain his childhood

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:D

試題分析：總述本文講述一位61歲的老人對自己童年的總結和回憶將童年時期與成人后看待世界的不同角度予以比較從而感慨人生的短暫。
小題1:本題是對作者觀點的判斷。根據(jù)第三段內容可知成年后世界變小了一切都暗淡無趣日子在不知不覺中一天天地逝去故感慨 “How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion” 顯然作者懷念童年時的感覺。答案選D。
小題2:深層含義理解。根據(jù)文章第二段可知孩子對未知世界充滿好奇而感到everything was bigger 而文章第三段表述了當作者長大后沒有Tastes和Surprises 故life has become smaller. 答案選B。
小題3:細節(jié)推理題。依據(jù)第三段Tastes have bulledSurprises have turned into shocksDays go by unnoticed當作者長人后對外面的世界的感覺不再新鮮好奇生活很平淡越來越“令人失望”。答案選A。
小題4:細節(jié)推理題。根據(jù)最后一段的句子：I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them,可知作者通過在舞臺上表演重新獲得童年的感覺。選D。
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