(完整版)高中英语阅读理解及答案详解(2)

1、高中英语阅读理解及答案详解 4AA child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the samewords, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always muchbetter to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce

2、 what, in the actual situationof the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sadthinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that c

3、hildren who haveread fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think,some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises（出现 ） from the child having heardthe story once. Familiarity with the story

4、by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fearfaced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true,that giants, witches, twoheaded dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of beingfond of the stra

5、nge side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history.I find such people, I must say so peculiar （奇怪的 ） thatI do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad menattempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a s

6、tick or covering a telephone with kisses in thebelief that it was their beloved girlfriend.No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has everbelieved that it was.1 The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _ .A repeated without

7、any changeB treated as a jokeC made some changes by the parentD set in the present解析： 细节理解题。根据 It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, ifa parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on theprinted text, so much the b

8、etter.可推知此题答案为 C。答案： C2 According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story isAin a realistic settingB heard for the first timeC repeated too oftenD told in a different way解析： 细节题。根据 this arises （ 出现 ） from the child having heard the story once. 可推知此题答案为 B 。答案： B2 The advan

9、tage claimed （ 提出 ） for repeating fairy stories to young children is that itA makes them less fearfulB develops their power of memoryC makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid ofD encourages them not to have strange beliefs解析： 细节理解题。根据 Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain

10、of fearinto the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered. 可以得出此答案。答案： A3 The authors mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _ .A fairy stories are still being made upB there is some misunderstanding about fairy talesC people try to modernize old fairy storiesD there is more concern f

11、or childrens fears nowadays解析： 推理判断题。 有些人认为神话不现实，都是教孩子一些不存在的东西，会对孩子 有不好的影响。 作者用虚拟语气作了一个假设， 如果这些观点站得住脚的话， 可能会出现这 样的情况： theworld should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering atelephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl friend.

12、可见持这种观点的人实际上是对神话的一种误解。答案： B4 One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _.A they are full of imaginationB they just make up the stories which are far from the truthC they are not interestingD they make teachers of history difficult to teach解析：推理判断题。根据.no t objectively

13、 true, do not exist可知有些人不赞成神话故事的原因是这些故事是编出来的，远离现实。故选B。答案：BBVery old people do raise moral problems for almost every one who comes in con tact with them.Their values this cant be repeated too often are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort,cleanness and order are not necessarily the most impor

14、tant things. The social services from time totime find themselves faced with a flat with decay ing food covered by small worms, and an old pers onlying alone in bed, tak ing no no tice of the worms. But is it interfering （ 干涉）with personal freedom toinsist that they go to live with some of their rel

15、atives so that they might be take n better care of? Somesocial workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in dan ger of carry ing this con cept ofpers onal freedom to the point where serious risks are being take n with the health and safety of the old.In deed, the old can be easily hurt

16、or harmed. The body is like a car, it n eeds more mechanicalmaintenance （ 机械维修，保养 ）as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to theprovision of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experie nces, however goodthe results will be. And at what point should y

17、ou stop to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try topush off death by seek ing the developme nt of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate theold body, knowing that it is desig ned to die? You cant ask doctors or scie ntists to decide, because solong as they can see the techni

18、cal opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try, on the principlethatwhile theres life, theres hope.When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the con clusi on that whether age ishappy or un pleasa nt depe nds less on money or on health tha n it does on your ability to ha

19、ve fun.5.What does the passage mainly tell us?A . The values are different between the old and the young.B.The moral problems raised by old people.C.The personal freedom for the old.D.Old peoples viewpoint on life.解析：主旨大意题。根据文章第 1 句 Very old people do raise moral problems for almostevery one who com

20、es in contact with them及全文内容可知，答案选 B。答案：B6.We can know from the first paragraph that_.A. Very old people would like to live alone to have more personal freedom.B Very old people are able to keep their room clean.C Very old people like to live with their children.D Social services have nothing to do with very old people.解析： 推理判断题。根据文章第 1 段最后几句 Some social workers, the ones who clear up theworms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where seriousrisks are being taken with the health and safety of the old可知，答案选A。答案： A7 According to the author, which of